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Re:Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader by unfocussed_mike on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:29PM (#30603783)
> I would say perhaps he was better at pivoting failures early

Right. Good at deciding, throwing weight behind even a wild and dramatic choice (like his sort of pirate-captain-and-pirate-crew with the original Mac team) and committing.

And then unusually brave at cutting losses or finding a new use for failures. He cut a hell of a lot of losses when he returned to Apple.

But in interviews he was also sort of a student-philosopher of decision-making. Witness the clip on this page, with Jobs talking about being taught about not interfering with brand design (in this case the NeXT brand) by Paul Rand:

https://www.logodesignlove.com/next-logo-paul-rand

You can see that made an impression on him and probably got absorbed into his sort of precision-anecdote-driven way of communicating his ideas.

(The other thing I like about this clip is seeing Jobs talking quite personally about someone he admires)

Re:Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader by anamax on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:20PM (#30604976)
> He cut a hell of a lot of losses when he returned to Apple.

When Jobs returned to Apple, how much of it was from when he left?

Re:Steve Wozniak: Steve Jobs wasn’t a natural-born leader by unfocussed_mike on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:27PM (#30607282)
I don't think most of them -- maybe any of them -- were his losses originally!