How do you feel about Steve Jobs?

A little while back I read this article in Wired magazine titled, "How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong."

He sounds like an evil genius...

Excerpt:
Likewise, Robert Sutton's 2007 book, The No Asshole Rule, spoke out against workplace tyrants but made an exception for Jobs: "He inspires astounding effort and creativity from his people," Sutton wrote. A Silicon Valley insider once told Sutton that he had seen Jobs demean many people and make some of them cry. But, the insider added, "He was almost always right."

"Steve proves that it's OK to be an asshole," says Guy Kawasaki, Apple's former chief evangelist. "I can't relate to the way he does things, but it's not his problem. It's mine. He just has a different OS."

I really liked this CNNMoney.com/Fortune bit on him.

Love him, hate him or indifferent?

Tags: apple, jobs, steve

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Permalink Reply by sAm on June 17, 2008 at 2:58pm

My only opinion of him has been shaped through the media, which is of course never the full truth. Having said that, I think he has done a great job of putting Apple back on the map. With a company as large as Apple, you need to be a strong leader to create a sense of urgency to innovate. That, and I like where my stock value has gone in the past year :)

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Permalink Reply by rp {|} // .MrPresident___++ on June 17, 2008 at 5:21pm

1 word = Genious

His story is inspiring:

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Permalink Reply by Eugene on June 18, 2008 at 12:56pm

great speech...

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Permalink Reply by Eugene on June 18, 2008 at 12:59pm

around 5 years ago i thought apple was gonna go out of business. Microsoft was such a powerhouse, so much so, that there were anti-monopoly suits going on left and right. The fact that apple has not only taken a piece of the pie, but seems to be taking over the market completely, boggles my mind.

I believe leadership has more than one way to be effective. The thing i most admire about Steve Jobs is his perseverance, his vision, and execution.