Steve Jobs talks about managing people

one of the keys to Apple is apples an incredibly collaborative company and so you know how many committees we have at Apple no zero we have no committees no committee we are there we are organized like a start-up one person is in charge of iPhone OS software one person is in charge of Mac hardware one person is in charge of iPhone hardware engineering another person is in charge of worldwide marketing another person is in charge of operations it's we're organized like a startup we're the biggest startup on the planet and we all meet for three hours once a week and we talk about everything we're doing the whole business and there's tremendous teamwork at the top of the company which filters down to tremendous teamwork throughout the company and teamwork is dependent on trusting the other folks to come through with their part without watching them all the time but trusting that they're going to come through with their parts and that's what we do really well and we're great at figuring out how to divide things up into these great teams that we have and all work on the same thing touch bases frequently and bring it all together into a product we do that really well and so what I do all day is meet with teams of people and work on ideas and solve problems to make new products to make new marketing programs whatever it is and are people willing to tell you you're wrong yeah I mean other than snarky journalists I mean people are bored ya know we have wonderful arguments and do you win them all or oh no I wish I did I'll see you can't if you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to you have to be run by ideas not hierarchy the best ideas have to win so otherwise good people don't stay but you must be more than a facilitator who runs meetings you obviously contribute your own ideas I contribute ideas sure well why would I be there if I didn't

Channel: ragni

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Keywords: steve jobs, apple

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Length: 2min 26sec (146 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 12 2010

Reddit Comments

[u/MobTwo]

For the record, I don't like Steve Jobs nor Apple. However, that doesn't mean I can't learn from them.

[u/playfulexistence]

Steve Jobs was also not afraid to fire someone if they got in the way. If Amaury had been working at Apple he would have been fired on day 1. BCH put up with him for years.

[u/dyslexicpotatoe]

Steve Jobs was tyrannical and a notorious asshole. He's dead because he thought he could cure cancer with essential oils and vegetables.

So yes, bitcoin cash.

[u/revrr]

Apple may bey collaborative, but not to the customers

[u/1MightBeAPenguin]

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Edit: nvm, saw the username...

[u/hugelung]

Honestly that's a weird headline. Like, yeah, Apple probably used a lot of "teamwork" internally, but are notoriously anti-competitive / non-collaborative

For example:

• Aggressive phone patents, and buying out of parts and parts manufacturers simply to prevent competitors from using the same quality of hardware
• Laughing in the face of industry standards, constantly making custom ports, non-compatible hardware and software. They have always been the walled garden, when compared to the open PC parts market
• Total lockdown over most parts of iOS, including the app store, and everything on it

But to be fair, they have done some notable open source projects, like webkit and cups (printing software)