The real leadership lessons of Steve Jobs
This month's issue of Harvard Business Review has an interesting article about Steve Jobs's real leadership lessons. The article is written by the author of Steve Jobs's bio, Walter Issacson. Here are the 14 lessons:
1. Focus
2. Simplicity
3. Take responsibility end to end
4. When behind, leapfrog
5. Put products before profits
6. Don't be a slave of focus groups
7. Bend reality
8. Impute
9. Push for perfection
10. Tolerate only "A" players
11. Engage face-to-face
12. Know both the big picture and the details
13. Combine the humanities with the sciences
14. Stay hungry, stay foolish
What really amazed me looking at the list is the fact ALL were attributed to a single person; a person who mastered ALL of them.
No mater what people say about Jobs's personal style and his way of treating people, his brilliance should not be discounted. It should be studied and embraced.
If the other companies and their leaders would apply only 20% of these lessons, the business world would be a much more fun to be, and the world at large would benefit from much better, more creative and fun products.
1. Focus
2. Simplicity
3. Take responsibility end to end
4. When behind, leapfrog
5. Put products before profits
6. Don't be a slave of focus groups
7. Bend reality
8. Impute
9. Push for perfection
10. Tolerate only "A" players
11. Engage face-to-face
12. Know both the big picture and the details
13. Combine the humanities with the sciences
14. Stay hungry, stay foolish
What really amazed me looking at the list is the fact ALL were attributed to a single person; a person who mastered ALL of them.
No mater what people say about Jobs's personal style and his way of treating people, his brilliance should not be discounted. It should be studied and embraced.
If the other companies and their leaders would apply only 20% of these lessons, the business world would be a much more fun to be, and the world at large would benefit from much better, more creative and fun products.
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