Peter Swinkels wrote on 2021-02-02, 14:04:
While I understand some people might not agree I think tablets and smart phones are a wonderful invention. I haven't really used Android stuff and don't care for it. I prefer Apple. The funny thing? Once I saw that movie about Steve Jobs I was kind of amazed about what an *** he apparently was. At least according to some. I guess you might need to be a bit of a *** if you are willing to push people around hard enough to realize a vision you have...
Only the geniuses and best ones are a PITA to work with, apparently. For example, Ayrton Senna. He was exactly like Jobs at work, obsessed with details and perfectionist, demanding a lot from his team, demanding 120% all the time, but when he wasn't racing and enjoying free time with is family in Sao Paulo, he was a completely different person. Like, a very different Ayrton Senna, like if he had two personalities. Globo TV used to sell his image as a good guy against the bad guys, but in reality the people that worked with Senna generally spoke the truth about how hard it was to work with him. Gerhard Berger's opinion can't be held high because they were very good friends, unlike Alain Prost who had faced the true image of Senna behind the scenes. Nevertheless, as a racing fan, I still regard Ayrton Senna as the greatest of all time, though he might not have been someone very nice to work with.
Other names fall in this category: Fernando Alonso, Michael Jordan. The Netflix documentary about Chicago Bulls golden years under Jordan is a very good image of how really Jordan was behind the scenes. Jordan was very much like Jobs, the same methods applied.
I can understand the motivation behind Steve Jobs acts and ideas, his methods maybe weren't popular, but most companies in this world have someone like Jobs doing the same, they just do not have the media press over them to put a light and tell everyone. I doubt that there is any manager in this world with methods as successful and more popular than Jobs. Even Jesus Christ did not please everyone...
They strive to and want to be the best, and do whatever it takes to make it happen. That's why they were extremely good in what they wanted to do.
No good boys where THAT good in their areas. I am yet to see a "good boi" as a F1 world champion... (even Jenson Button admitted he wasn't a nice guy when there was no camera around him).
"Design isn't just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
JOBS, Steve.
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