Ten Leadership lessons from Steve Jobs
2012 April 26
From Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, I have extracted the following ten principles of leadership.
- Start drugs early
- Smell
- Screw the friends that got you started
- Tell people they’re assholes
- Steal the ideas of the two or three people who are not
- Occupy handicapped people’s parking spaces
- Ignore your father, abuse your girlfriends, abandon your daughter
- Cartelize industries
- Post-date corporate options
- Despise philanthropy
Will anybody ever want to teach leadership after Steve Jobs?
(HBR article by Isaacson)
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Ooft. Contentious! Great to hear a viewpoint outside the default channel of product leadership fawning though ..
Still laughing after reading you post Francis. I ran across this Forbes article a few weeks ago. It’s entitled, “Seven habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives.” Guess who exemplified all of these 7 habits? I guess that’s why he is the fringe case and not the text book example
Habit # 1: They see themselves and their companies as dominating their environment
Warning Sign for #1: A lack of respect
Habit #2: They identify so completely with the company that there is no clear boundary
between their personal interests and their corporation’s interests
Warning Sign for #2: A question of character
Habit #3: They think they have all the answers
Habit #4: They ruthlessly eliminate anyone who isn’t completely behind them
Habit #5: They are consummate spokespersons, obsessed with the company image
Habit #6: They underestimate obstacles Warning Sign of #6: Excessive hype
Habit #7: They stubbornly rely on what worked for them in the past
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/01/02/the-seven-habits-of-spectacularly-unsuccessful-executives/