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How does Steve Jobs do it all?
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I was reading an article talking about Pixar's negotiations with Disney, and it struck me; How does Steve manage to find time to be CEO of two very big companies? There are only so many hours in the day.
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Except for the biggest things, Steve is little more than a figurehead at Pixar. Ed Catmull and John Lasseter run the day to day operations.
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Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
Except for the biggest things, Steve is little more than a figurehead at Pixar. Ed Catmull and John Lasseter run the day to day operations.
Yeah but Steve does a lot of the negotiating with Disney apparently. That must be a humungous time waster.
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Call me crazy, but I consider negotiating distribution deals one of those "biggest things."
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Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Yeah but Steve does a lot of the negotiating with Disney apparently. That must be a humungous time waster.
Well, not as of late.
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Delegation. Not to mention Pixar probably doesn't take much work. He's got people he trusts there... I think Apple gets a lot more of his time.
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He's productive because he uses a Mac...
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Originally posted by dlefebvre:
He's productive because he uses a Mac...
He finally switched?
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He is nothing but a bot people.
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He's cool like the Master Chief.
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Originally posted by f1000:
Clones.
I am going to go with Clones as well.
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How To Be an Effective CEO:
Step 1 - Delegate
Step 2 - There is no step 2
Jobs isn't very involved in the day to day of either company, especially Pixar.
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nah it's 8-12 in cupertino, then it's 12:15-4pm in emeryville. of course i'm just guessing, but i did remember hearing somewhere and sometime ago that he'd take a chopper to get from a to b and so forth. makes sense, i wouldn't feel like driving 50+ miles each day getting to the other office.
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He's doing everything from home.
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He has outsourced part of his Job(s) to a Steve Jobs call-center in India.
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Steve Jobs is rich and powerful enough that he can do as much or as little as he wants in a day.
He could probably take a year off and both companies would continue to operate as if nothing happened.
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Steve's been testing the new transporter beam technolgy Apple has been working on, which is why they had to buy him a jet as a cover story.
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I don't think it's any secret. He hires the best people he can get, pays them a ton of money and then makes them do a considerable amount of work (long hours, high quality work, etc.)... while quasi-micro managing them. It's not hard manage 5-10 people.
He isn't a person that accepts mediocrity in "his" companies... and I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't insist that they all have iChat so he could "check in on them" at any given moment from wherever he is.
I'm just waiting for someone to write a book about him that talks about how he manages people. Most of the people at Apple seem to fear him... even Phil at the keynotes...
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When you love what you are doing it makes it easier. Having good people around you also makes a big difference.
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Agreed. Surrounds himself with some superstar staff, I'm sure.
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