Steve Jobs is a genius but a bad and mean manager.
Steve Jobs revolutionized multiple industries with his cutting-edge products but he was not the world’s best manager.
Jobs changed the course of personal computing during two stints at Apple and then brought a revolution to the mobile market, but the inspiring genius is known for his hard edges.
Brutally honest
Jobs loved to argue but not everyone around him shared that passion, which drove some of his top people away. While his style had yielded breakthrough products, it didn’t make for “great management style”.
Attitude toward money
“I saw these people who were really nice, simple people turn into these bizarro people,” he added. “And I made a promise to myself: ‘I’m not going to let this money ruin my life.’”
‘Magical thinking’
“He would focus on the products,” the biographer said. “He knew the couple of things he wanted to do which was the iPhone and then the iPad.”
Jobs, who has revolutionized the world of personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet, digital publishing and retail stores, would have liked to conquer television as well.