Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ...
by snowwrestler on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:33PM
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Different jobs have different responsibilities, and the personal characteristics of strong leadership are largely orthogonal to those.
What I mean is, being a C-title executive means a different set of daily tasks than leading a small project or product team. A self-aware person who doesn't want to do the C-level tasks won't take a C-level job, even if they are a great leader who maybe could get that job. Instead, they look for the best environment in which they can do the job they want to do.
A big goal for any CEO is to create that environment and find those people. Steve Jobs seemed to be pretty good at that.
Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ...
by Torwald on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @04:45PM
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After his return to Apple, Jobs explicitly said that Apple should be better at partnering. It was on the event were he announced the Microsoft deal.
I guess Steve learned this during the Next years.
This is a good point and probably not an accident. During my time there I worked with middle managers who, at most other companies would qualify as C-level executives. Yet there they were: world class leader sitting there managing small team X on project Y, Because Apple.