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Steve Jobs was a fraud
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
... "William Sommerwerck" wrote in message ... I don't think it's possible for CEOs to be "nice" to their employees. There has to be some emotional distance, and a "line of familiarity" that should not be crossed. Very old school. Even very hierarchical organizations like the military are going away from this sort of thinking. Any number of great leaders over the years have said things like "We all put our pants on one leg at a time". I've had individual managers who treated me as an equal. One even told me he loved me before he died. (I felt the same way about him.) When you have a boss like that, it's a great experience. But it works only when it's sincere, and neither person is trying to take advantage of the other. A company head cannot be chummy-friendly with his or her employees. The CEO has to treat his or her associates "professionally", and not let personal feelings enter into decisions. Dr Land, who was -- and still is -- idolized by (ex-)Polaroid employees, treated some of the company's officials quite badly. It's notable that Steve Jobs was sometimes inexcusably nasty. Yet Apple didn't collapse, and the company still managed to be successful. I'm not justifying this sort of thing. What I am saying is that Americans are becoming increasingly "familiar" and "touchy-feely" to create the illusion of social democracy. A good example is how people address those they've just been introduced to by their first names. When I was growing up, you didn't do that. |
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Steve Jobs was a fraud
"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message ... I don't think it's possible for CEOs to be "nice" to their employees. There has to be some emotional distance, and a "line of familiarity" that should not be crossed. Very old school. Even very hierarchical organizations like the military are going away from this sort of thinking. Any number of great leaders over the years have said things like "We all put our pants on one leg at a time". |
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Steve Jobs was a fraud
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
... Here's the issue that you are walking around. You can either be a leader or a boss. A true leader is first among equals. Is that a contradiction? It isn't a contradiction, if everyone in the group feels they're part of the group and making a real contribution. Also if they know that they'll be listened to when they have a problem or complaint. If you have been part of a very good team, you know what I'm talking about. I've had individual managers like that, but I only remember one team of that sort (at Data I/O). |
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Steve Jobs was a fraud
"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message ... "Arny Krueger" wrote in message ... "William Sommerwerck" wrote in message ... I don't think it's possible for CEOs to be "nice" to their employees. There has to be some emotional distance, and a "line of familiarity" that should not be crossed. Very old school. Even very hierarchical organizations like the military are going away from this sort of thinking. Any number of great leaders over the years have said things like "We all put our pants on one leg at a time". I've had individual managers who treated me as an equal. One even told me he loved me before he died. (I felt the same way about him.) When you have a boss like that, it's a great experience. But it works only when it's sincere, and neither person is trying to take advantage of the other. A company head cannot be chummy-friendly with his or her employees. The CEO has to treat his or her associates "professionally", and not let personal feelings enter into decisions. Dr Land, who was -- and still is -- idolized by (ex-)Polaroid employees, treated some of the company's officials quite badly. It's notable that Steve Jobs was sometimes inexcusably nasty. Yet Apple didn't collapse, and the company still managed to be successful. I'm not justifying this sort of thing. What I am saying is that Americans are becoming increasingly "familiar" and "touchy-feely" to create the illusion of social democracy. A good example is how people address those they've just been introduced to by their first names. When I was growing up, you didn't do that. Here's the issue that you are walking around. You can either be a leader or a boss. A true leader is first among equals. Is that a contradiction? If you have been part of a very good team, you know what I'm talking about. You tolerate a boss because he pays you to. That pay may be economic or non-economic but you put up with the way he lords it over you because of the pay. Both of these are independent of friendship, love or professionalism. |
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Steve Jobs was a fraud
It's hard to quantify the good and bad personal traits of CEOs and
bosses and tie them to their companies fortunes, because there are so many who are more heinous than any of these famous ones and run invisible, unsuccessful companies. There are Steve Jobs wannabees running money losing companies at every level, as well as ones who emulate Mr.'s Hewlett and Packard's personableness in their own terrible companies. There's much more than ruthlessness or non- ruthlessness as a valid factor because it's not in a vacuum. |
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Steve Jobs was a fraud
vdubreeze wrote:
It's hard to quantify the good and bad personal traits of CEOs and bosses and tie them to their companies fortunes, because there are so many who are more heinous than any of these famous ones and run invisible, unsuccessful companies. There are Steve Jobs wannabees running money losing companies at every level, as well as ones who emulate Mr.'s Hewlett and Packard's personableness in their own terrible companies. There's much more than ruthlessness or non- ruthlessness as a valid factor because it's not in a vacuum. It's true, and there also seem to be CEOs who are constantly bumped from company to company, doing damage wherever they go but never lasting very long. For every Hewlett and Packard there is a Fiorino. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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