How Tim Cook Is Filling Steve Jobs's Shoes 209
The New York Times, in an article about Apple CEO Tim Cook, focuses in large part on the ways in which Cook is not Jobs. He's less volatile, for one thing, whether you think that means he's less passionate or just more circumspect. A small slice: Lower-level employees praise Mr. Cook’s approachability and intellect. But some say he is less hands-on in developing products than his predecessor. They point to the development of the so-called iWatch — the “smartwatch” that Apple observers are eagerly awaiting as the next world-beating gadget. Mr. Cook is less involved in the minutiae of product engineering for the watch, and has instead delegated those duties to members of his executive cabinet, including Mr. Ive, according to people involved in the project, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to press. Apple declined to comment on the watch project. ... Mr. Cook has also looked outside of Apple for experienced talent. He has hired executives from multiple industries, including Angela Ahrendts, the former head of Burberry, to oversee the physical and online stores, and Paul Deneve, the former Yves Saint Laurent chief executive, to take on special projects. He also hired Kevin Lynch, the former chief technology officer of Adobe, and Michael O’Reilly, former medical officer of the Masimo Corporation, which makes health monitoring devices. Not to mention the music men of Beats.
Re:Left brain vs. right brain leadership (Score:5, Funny)
Steve Jobs was not creative. At all. Name one thing he ever invented.
"Holding it wrong"
But who will succeed Steve Jobs? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe Apple could make a comeback under Scott McNealy, former head of SUN Microsystems.
Re:The New York Times authors are would-be novelis (Score:2, Funny)
I'm old enough to remember when Apple stock went up because they made and sold revolutionary new products.
Pro-tip for entrepreneurs: If you spend $90 billion buying your own stock, the stock price will rise. Similarly, if you get very drunk an ugly girl doesn't look quite as bad.
The problem is you can only do that so many times before you can no longer pretend she's a supermodel or you have to go to rehab to prevent your life from falling apart around you.
Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid (Score:0, Funny)
errrr... by not having pancreatic cancer?
That gives him the opportunity for sure. As far as the means though, no doubt Tim could fill the shoes the same shovel he used to dig Steve up with? Or did Steve have a shoe fetish, like an Imelda Marcos of Cupertino, which might require Mr Cook to use heavy earthmoving equipment to fill all of Steve's shoes simultaneously.
Hard to know for sure, and much much harder to care about yet another overpaid CEO of a nasty exploitative megacorp.
The king is dead, and nobody cares. Not about him, and not about his clone.