Steve Jobs on Leadership
Jobs treated leadership as a mix of focus, hiring, and keeping people aligned around great products. He said the best teams are built from talented people who challenge each other, and that a leader’s job is to point the company in the right direction, not win popularity.
“The people that are really good want to work with the best people they can find”
“And my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction.”
“You have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy.”
1:36:30Steve Jobs on Apple Origins: From Blue Boxes to the Apple I
0:23Steve Jobs on Apple Turnaround: A Ship with a Hole
21:13Steve Jobs on Apple Campus: Cupertino's New Headquarters Plan
19:22Steve Jobs on Hiring A Players: Building Great Teams
7:27Steve Jobs on Hiring A Players: Build a self-policing team
11:40Steve Jobs on Apple's Turnaround: Focus, Partners, and Values
2:10:30Steve Jobs on Mac OS X: Aqua and the New Apple
15:46Steve Jobs on Apple’s Comeback: The making of a legend
19:57Steve Jobs on Computer Science as a Liberal Art
20:12Steve Jobs on NeXT Vision: Building for Education
10:16Steve Jobs on Macintosh: Building a Better Way
4:08Steve Jobs on Wi-Fi Interference: Turn Off Your Laptops
5:44Steve Jobs on Pixar and the Beatles
23:01Steve Jobs on Pixar and Storytelling: Technology in Service of Art
19:19Steve Jobs on Quality: Re-engineering the Basics
8:31Steve Jobs on Apple's Turnaround: Focus, culture, and product
9:23Steve Jobs on School Vouchers: Competition for Education
2:05:51Steve Jobs on the Power Mac G5: fastest personal computer
4:56Steve Jobs on Management: Run by Ideas, Not Hierarchy
5:25Steve Jobs on the Beatles Team: Great Work Is Collective
5:26Steve Jobs on Hiring A Players: Great Teams Win
10:11Steve Jobs on Apple Stores: The ultimate use of glass
17:38Steve Jobs on Apple's Origin Story
0:20Steve Jobs on Teams & Collaboration: The Hard Part
1:23:02Steve Jobs on Education: Great Teachers, Real Competition
7:41Steve Jobs on Founding Apple: Building for Ourselves
2:02Steve Jobs on Managing Great People
2:06Steve Jobs on Design: How Things Work
1:36:56Steve Jobs on Xserve: Apple Enters the Server Market
7:04Steve Jobs on Marketing: Think Different
11:06Steve Jobs on Focus: Always Forward
3:24Steve Jobs on Michael Dell: Criticizing Dell's Strategy
18:56Steve Jobs on Higher Education: Building NeXT for Learning
1:49Steve Jobs on Apple's Comeback: I'm Back at Apple
3:35Steve Jobs on Design: Good design, great work
0:39Steve Jobs on Humor: A Playful Exchange
2:40Steve Jobs on Apple's Vision: People Before Mainframes
0:11Steve Jobs on Rehearsal
0:13Steve Jobs on One More Thing
0:52Steve Jobs on Apple's Comeback: Dell Was Wrong
0:30Steve Jobs on Perseverance: Making It Really Great
1:48Steve Jobs on Thinkers And Doers
18:10Steve Jobs on Passion and Focus: Building Great Products
0:26Steve Jobs on Apple as a Leaking Ship
2:03Steve Jobs on Teamwork: Polishing Ideas Together
5:24Steve Jobs on Hiring: Bet on People, Not Credentials
1:39Steve Jobs on Organ Donation: A thank-you and update
2:38Steve Jobs on Startups: Building a Company from Scratch
0:59Steve Jobs on the Next Big Thing
6:09Steve Jobs on Getting Fired from Apple: The painful split
5:14Steve Jobs on Apple History: From Garage to Return
2:38Steve Jobs on Apple's Teamwork: Candid Moments at Apple
2:01Steve Jobs on Interview
6:22Steve Jobs on Interviewing
6:09Steve Jobs on Apple Store Opening: All Systems Are Go
4:55Steve Jobs on 30th Birthday Tribute
5:12Steve Jobs on Apple, iPhone, and Life Story
5:46Steve Jobs on Hiring: A Very Unusual Interview
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