@gruber @siracusa a Jobs quote from the Isaacson book, “My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. The products, not the profits, were the motivation. Sculley flipped these priorities to where the goal was to make money. It’s a subtle difference, but it ends up meaning everything - the people you hire, who gets promoted, what you discuss in meetings.” https://hbr.org/2011/10/steve-jobs-solved-the-innovato (extra point as article mentions “necessary but not sufficient”)
Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator’s Dilemma
In the lead up to today’s release of the Steve Jobs biography, there’s been an increasing stream of news surrounding its subject. As a business researcher, I was particularly interested in this recent article that referenced from his biography a list of Jobs’s favorite books. There’s one business book on this list, and it “deeply […]