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Originally Posted by jocampo
Apple will be ok for a year or two, but besides being the CEO, he was a micro manager who was approving, rejecting, or pushing some of the Projects that we know now as iPad, iPod, etc.
The current CEO probably will have the skills, but the innovation ideas or the charisma, cannot or won't be replaced.
The impact, if one, will be noticed in one or two years, assuming he's really ill or not coming back.
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I don't agree that Jobs was a micro manager. I've worked around micro managers, although thankfully I only actually worked for one a couple of weeks which seemed like a year.
With Jobs, it's more like the old joke:
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The employee brings in a piece of work, & the manager asks "is that the best you can do?"
So the employee slinks out and reworks the docuent, then brings it back.
Same question. More slinking.
Until finally, the employee explodes "yes, dammit, that's the best I can do!"
Whereupon the manager says "great!" and signs the document.
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But truthfully, Jobs is not a manager at all. He's an executive. Managers are people who get employees to do what everyone knows needs doing. Executives are people who get employees to do things nobody knew could be done. Good managers are not necessarily good executives, and vice-versa.
The question, as I see it, is whether Jobs has created a culture at Apple which will survive him. I'll bet he has. I've listened to him being interviewed, and it seems clear to me that he is the kind of person who thinks about that sort of thing. If he has applied himself to the culture as well as he has to the products, Apple will do just fine.