February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 8m
English
“He is a dreadful manager,” said a worker. “I have found it impossible to work for him . . . Very often, when told a new idea, he will immediately attack it and say it is worthless or even stupid, and tell you that it was a waste of time to work on it. This alone is bad management, but if the idea is a good one he will soon be telling people about it as though it was his own.”
Few people would like the idea of working for such a boss. And even fewer would expect a boss like that to be held up as one of the best business leaders of all time. But remarkably, the quote describes none other than Steve Jobs, the founder of one of the most successful companies in history.1 (The quote comes from Jef Raskin, who led the design ...