Steve Jobs Quotes About Management
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Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
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You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.
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The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
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Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
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I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!
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Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.
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