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Would you hire Steve Jobs to turn around a failing business?
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Could Steve Jobs work his magic for any failing business, or just for Apple like he did 1996-1999?
For example, if Steve was made dictator of a failing school district, would he have the charisma and vigor to turn it around and make it successful/in the green?
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Steve doesn't need the money; the only reason he got back in at Apple was that he spent 10 years watching his baby wither away under bad leadership. Although he never explicitly showed it, Apple's failings during the 90s bothered him a lot (see the book 'Infinite Loop').
Thus, although he could work his magic elsewhere, I doubt he'd have reason to be passionate about it.
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I bet he regrets bringing in John Sculley to run Apple in 1983. How would things have turned out if SJ had stayed at the wheel?
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All Steve Jobs would have to do now is to SIGN ON to save a business. The influx of interest would save the company alone... He can motivate anyone into success. It's the aura.
He could not do this unless he went in and saved Apple from almost certain death. His passion did it.
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I don't think he would do as well somewhere else. Apple is his passion, the company that he confounded. A person does better at something that they love.
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If he is a mature man now and has not harbored hate and resentment for the past 15 years I doubt he regrets bringing John Scully in. From what I've seen in reading and media, Steve was very immature for a President / CEO back in the day. He needed that break to grow up, learn the ropes and then come back. If he truely has learned, he values everything that has happened in his life to get to this point and has no regrets whatsoever.
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Originally Posted by iDriveX
If he is a mature man now and has not harbored hate and resentment for the past 15 years I doubt he regrets bringing John Scully in. From what I've seen in reading and media, Steve was very immature for a President / CEO back in the day. He needed that break to grow up, learn the ropes and then come back. If he truely has learned, he values everything that has happened in his life to get to this point and has no regrets whatsoever.
I think he's still immature, in a sense. But he's got a handle on it now. In a number of interviews, I've seen him quoted as saying "I hired the wrong guy" when discussing Sculley; end of story - the resentment is there, but there's no way to turn it kinetic. Sculley isn't in the business anymore.
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For $1.00 per year? He'd be my first choice!!!
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As someone said above; I think steve does so well because he is truly passionate about computers and electronics, and I think a lot of his success originates from that passion.
If I needed to save my beef packing plant, I don't think he would be my first choice.
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(In voice of TEAM America anthem):
"STEVE JOBS! **** YEAH!"
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I think Steve Jobs could get worked up about any product if he had the slightest incling that it was original and would change the way people thought about it in the future.
Simple as that, he is an entrepeneur grande. Or is that Vente?
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lol .. imagine
every cut of beef would be prime for the professionals and choice cuts for the consumer line of beef products.
they'd have fantastic packaging instead of plastic wrap over a styrofoam tray.
every few months, he'd announce his prime and choice cuts now come with x % more marbling ... *boom*
mini sized cutlets and chops for the size and fashion conscious...
Since cooling on the big cuts of beef has always been a concern, he'll announce special cooling tricks in the packaging to keep your cuts from bursting into flames. possibly liquid cooling or even Dry Ice *Gasps!*
Thank you for coming, see you guys next year for BeefWorld '06!
I can see that .. =P
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oh .. and somewhere in there, you'd here about how his beef packing plant is the most innovative .. and how the "other packers" from Redmond Washington has been copying their methods of production and packaging ... and how his NEW line will be out months, even years before the competition .. lol
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Originally Posted by wdlove
the company that he confounded.
You mean we've all been conned!?!?!?!
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I dono if Steve could work on a small scale all that well. He's amazing at working a really good crowd... I have actually learned a bit from him that I'll probably use in ministry 
But ultimately, I think Steve worked at Apple because he loves the company. And he loves their products and he loves what they're about. I don't know if he could have done the same thing with say a cosmetic company. But if it was his passion and he had the best and brightest available to him like at Apple then yah I'd say he could do it.
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He's a marketing genius. 
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No, because Steve can be a bit too radical and sometimes that is a bad thing with something that is failing.
I would, however, hire Gil Amelio.
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