The Brutal Leadership Truth That Transformed Apple’s Greatest Designer: Why Steve Jobs Called Jony Ive ‘Vain’

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Discover the game-changing moment when Steve Jobs shattered conventional leadership wisdom and revealed the hidden barrier destroying even the most talented leaders The moment when brutal honesty transforms great talent into exceptional leadership In a conference room at Apple, two of the most brilliant minds in design history were locked in what would become one of the most revealing leadership exchanges ever recorded. Jony Ive, the man behind the revolutionary designs of the iMac, iPod,...

Dummy-Proofing

" People tend to think that they need a process for everything, and once in a while you hear 'We're going to dummy-proof it.' But if you dummy-proof the process, you only get dummies to work there. That's why we're so opposed to that and focused on giving people great freedom. They'll make mistakes, of course, but you'll get a lot of great ideas. Reed Hastings Co-founder and former CEO, Netflix The Netflix Culture of...