Quotes About Leadership

was the result of government policies, carefully crafted in a thoughtful and bipartisan atmosphere, that assured America's lead in building an information-age economy. The most influential person in this process, which may come as a surprise to those who know of his role only as a punch line to jokes, was Senator Al Gore Jr. of Tennessee.

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important.

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You know, Gina, Apple is like a ship," Amelio answered. "That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

Walter Isaacson

Jobs thought of himself as an artist, and he encouraged the design team to think of ourselves that way too," said Hertzfeld. "The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.

Every six months he would take most of his team on a two-day retreat at a nearby resort.

Compromisers may not make great heroes, but they do make democracies.

The Mac, on the other hand, would end up being as "insanely great" as Jobs and his acolytes could possibly make it—but it would not ship for another sixteen months, way behind schedule.

Walter Isaacson

people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones

McCollum believed in military

At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. "I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company

Such a leader knows how to empower groups to self-organize. When it's done right, a governance structure by consensus naturally emerges, as happened both with Linux and Wikipedia. "What astonishes so many people is that the open source model actually works," Torvalds said. "People know who has been active and who they can trust, and it just happens.

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He was not a model boss or human being, tidily packaged for emulation. Driven by demons, he could drive those around him to fury and despair.

Under Steve Jobs, there's zero tolerance for not performing, its CEO said. At another point, when VLSI Technology was having trouble delivering enough chips on time, Jobs stormed into a meeting and started shouting that they were fucking dickless assholes. The company ended up getting the chips to Apple on time, and its executives made jackets that boasted on the back, Team FDA.

Gates soutint le regard de Jobs, puis se mit à crier aussi, de sa voix de fausset : — Il y a une autre façon de voir les choses, Steve ! Xerox était notre riche voisin à tous les deux, et quand je suis entré chez lui pour lui voler sa télévision, j'ai découvert que tu l'avais déjà emportée !

The ability of Isaacson to write books that capture an age as well as a man makes him one of our best and most important biographers. Steve Jobs shows Isaacson at his best." —Foreign

really don't apply to Apple's culture." Levitt later

se describe al director ejecutivo ideal como una persona expansiva, reflexiva y de acción. Grove se dio cuenta de que, en lugar de estar encarnados en un solo individuo, esos rasgos podían darse en un equipo directivo.

After the Macintosh team returned to Bandley 3 that afternoon, a truck pulled into the parking lot and Jobs had them all gather next to it. Inside were a hundred new Macintosh computers, each personalized with a plaque. "Steve presented them one at a time to each team member, with a handshake and a smile, as the rest of us stood around cheering," Hertzfeld recalled.

key challenge for managers is how to strike a balance between being decisive and being collegial

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.