Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial

Re:Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial by silvestrov on Saturday August 04, 2012 @01:07PM (#4338969)

Does team imply that they must be direct reports and not have a single layer of managers? With a single layer, each manager (including Forstall) would have just 34 people to manage directly. That's somewhat the same as a teacher handling a big high school class.

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Re:Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial by jmduke on Saturday August 04, 2012 @01:35PM (#4339052)

Team might not imply that, but:

1,000 people who directly reported to him

certainly does.

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Re:Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial by mikecane on Saturday August 04, 2012 @04:33PM (#4339575)

I bet they did. I bet there were times where he went directly to staff and said, "I want you to concentrate on this" or "Now refine this" -- "and then come show it to me."

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Re:Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial by jmduke on Saturday August 04, 2012 @04:58PM (#4339623)

I understand what you mean, but that's certainly not the conventional definition of 'reporting to someone.'

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Re:Apple's Secrets Revealed During Trial by mikecane on Saturday August 04, 2012 @05:49PM (#4339790)

I suppose.

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