Ditto!
David,
I have always enjoyed and admired your posts, and this one is wonderful! I couldn't agree more with what you are saying. It must be incredibly difficult for anybody to follow Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, and I sure don't envy anybody who has to do it.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Carlee
What follows are some early morning thoughts on what David Smith has posted here, and I hope I don't step on anybody's toes or hurt anybody's feelings or start a flame war:
I'm wondering if possibly Steve Jobs' incredible ability to do what he did so well came from the fact that he didn't have to prove anything to anybody anymore. Especially after his return to Apple and it's rise to prominence again and to leadership in the smartphone and table fields, he didn't have to worry. He was far wealthier than he needed, so he didn't need to make money, he was the wunderkind who still "had it" and so he could simply have fun with life (until his health dealt him that horribly cruel blow!) with very little to worry about.
Tim Cook on the other hand is in no such position -- he is the Steve Ballmer of Apple, a man who was thrust into leadership of the company whether he was ready or not, a man who doesn't have the charisma of the founder, a man who has to answer to everybody (end-users, company staff, third-party developers and manufacturers, and most definitely the
shareholders) in a way that neither Steve Jobs nor Bill Gates didn't have to.
Think what you might about Bill Gates, his charisma and leadership skills lead Microsoft to the position of leadership that it has, and Steve Ballmer will never be as great nor do as well nor, quite frankly, replace Bill Gates.
The same goes for Tim Cook, who will never be as great nor will truly replace Steve Jobs.
Nobody could do that, and I think that many in the computer world have been looking to Steve Ballmer and to Tim Cook to replace their bosses, almost as clones in their visions and abilities to lead. What both companies need to do (Microsoft and Apple) is to stop trying to replace the irreplaceable and instead try to find people who are truly leaders in their own right and with their own vision and trust that they will be able to pull the companies into the future still in their positions of leadership and strength.
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David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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