Well said David! Nailed right on the head.
On Saturday, May 4, 2013, David H. Bailey wrote:
On 5/3/2013 8:40 PM, David Smith wrote:
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> Tim Cook may be their Achilles' Heel. If he says "incredibly" one more
> time, I'm complaining to the FCC. With Steve Jobs' disappearance, Apple
> lost both a lot of cool and a lot of hot. They need to find someone
> conspicuously smart who knows and who cares and who doesn't need a script.
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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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