АццкоМото wrote:Во-первых, товарищ был как раз тем самым ркуоводителем всего, от кофеварки до завода, а вовсе не технарем. Потом есть такая urban legend, как он уволил какого-то чела, вроде даже девелопера, за то, что тот осмелился в лифте прокатиться с Самим Великим Джобсом. Ну ок, это может быть придумкой.
It is true, however, that Jobs was hot tempered, could easily start shouting at his employees and calling their work shit, and reduce them to tears. But he was not just cruel and brutal: he could also be a total charmer and make his colleagues feel like geniuses (this is how he hired most of them actually). While at NeXT, his employees dubbed this swift change of attitude "Steve's hero/shithead roller-coaster", a nice metaphor for the binary view with which Jobs described the world, and how he treated his fellow staff. People often wondered why he felt necessary to resort to derogatory remarks and mean insults when he was disappointed with someone's (hard) work. His biographer Walter Isaacson asked him, to which he replied "that's just who I am". He was indeed very self aware of his attitude — he called Fortune's editor to complain about a piece about him, only to say "Wait a minute, you've discovered that I'm an asshole? Why is that news?"
Not everyone believes what I believe but my beliefs do not require them to.
Ed Niehaus, who was wooed and hired by Jobs to do PR for resurgent Apple, remembers an elevator ride that everyone in Silicon Valley has heard of, but seemed more myth than reality. It was soon after Jobs' triumphant return and he was axing product plans -- and people.
Niehaus recalled: "I once rode down an elevator, not that many floors. We got in the elevator and the next floor a young woman got in, and I could see her go, 'oops, wrong elevator.' And Steve said, 'Hi, who are you?' and introduces himself to her -- 'I'm Steve Jobs' and turned on the charm and said, 'What do you do?' and all this sort of thing. And the door of the elevator opens at the bottom, and he says, 'We are not going to need you.' And we walk away."
Not everyone believes what I believe but my beliefs do not require them to.
Вспомнилось еще, как он отчитывал всю команду MobileMe в полном составе:
In Fortune's story, Lashinsky says Steve Jobs summoned the entire MobileMe team for a meeting at the company's on-campus Town Hall, accusing everyone of "tarnishing Apple's reputation." He told the members of the team they "should hate each other for having let each other down", and went on to name new executives on the spot to run the MobileMe team. A few excerpts from the article.
"Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?" Having received a satisfactory answer, he continues, "So why the f*** doesn't it do that?"
Там вроде вообще была школьная линейка, на которую директор вместо себя трудовика оставил
