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The best take I ever read on Steve Jobs is that he was an artist in a business environment. He had the focus, intensity, and aesthetic vision that great creative artists have. But he expressed all this in the context of computers and digital products rather than theatre, painting, music, or the other fields more easily associated with artistic people.
He also had an executive style which I have tried to emulate, as best I can in a bureaucratic government environment. Basically, when he found someone who knew how to do something, he helped them do it. He did not have to be the smartest person in the room, and I think he was very happy any time he wasn't - which probably was more often than people might give him credit for.
He certainly made life more fun for the Rest of Us.
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