Management rule # 43 – You can only be as dickish as Steve Jobs if you’re number 1
People forgive benevolent dictators a lot. A lot they would not forgive anyone else under most circumstances. Every leader has to balance their style in order to get stuff done, but absolute despots have to worry less about balance. And this is one of the reasons Scott Forstall is out at Apple. He had a […]
Thing I didn’t know but think is super important # 257: the Losada line
I’ve been thinking about team building – how to do it successfully, what matters, etc. Part of what sparked it was that ubiquitous HBR article by Walter Isaacson about the real leadership lessons of Steve Jobs. The main whaled on people, but they were loyal to him. BTW, how do you square that? My main […]