Steve Jobs
2011 • 656 pages
Ratings232
Average rating4.2
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Ratings232
Average rating4.2
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Isaacson’s portrait touched millions of readers.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. He himself spoke candidly about the people he worked with and competed against.
His friends, foes, and colleagues offer an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.
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Leuk boek over de man zelf. Had een jubelverhaal verwacht, maar dat was het gelukkig niet. Onmogelijke man, die onmogelijke dingen heeft gedaan.
Although this book is quite thick, it's a quick read. My review isn't so much about the book or the style it's written in, etc. It's about what I learned from it.
Jobs' management style was not the best, but he did surround himself by the best people–A players–and didn't suffer fools as it were. He had no room for mediocrity. If someone failed at his job, he was fired. I admire that he was able to make decisions without shifting blame or asking a committee. He often took credit for other people's work, but that often happens in the workplace anyway.
It was wonderful to read about a man to whom we as a society are so indebted to today. I teared up at the end, it's such a shame he's no longer with us.
- Just over a month later and I continue to think about this book a lot. Not to sound too dramatic, but it changed the way I live.
Great read and as we already knew, Steve ain't then nicest of chaps on a good day but goddamn he is one smart mofo
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