Tuesday, October 25, 2005
TIME Magazine Archive Article -- How Apple Does It -- Oct. 24, 2005
My main points:
1) Control. Someone at the end of the discussion says 'that's the way it's going to be, discussion over.'
2) Deep collaboration. Everyone needs to work together on making the stuff succeed.
3) Ignore the nay-sayers.
4) The most important one: Winning is great, but losing is not bad. Being lame is.
Here's the quote from the article:
But Jobs doesn’t care just about winning. He’s willing to lose. He has done it often enough. He’s just not willing to be lame, and that may, increasingly, be the winning approach.
My main points:
1) Control. Someone at the end of the discussion says 'that's the way it's going to be, discussion over.'
2) Deep collaboration. Everyone needs to work together on making the stuff succeed.
3) Ignore the nay-sayers.
4) The most important one: Winning is great, but losing is not bad. Being lame is.
Here's the quote from the article:
But Jobs doesn’t care just about winning. He’s willing to lose. He has done it often enough. He’s just not willing to be lame, and that may, increasingly, be the winning approach.
