Steve Jobs’s worst decision was promoting Tim Cook

[Carmour]

Agree or disagree?

 

 

 

In January 2000, after running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer. Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job; he tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and doubled profits from $9 billion to $22 billion. The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. If the Microsoft board was eager only for quarter-to-quarter revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. But if the purpose of a CEO is long-term company survival, then one could make a much better argument that Ballmer was a failure as a CEO the moment he optimized short-term gains by squandering long-term opportunities.

 

Read more... https://qz.com/819739/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ballmer-and-why-he-still-has-his-job-at-apple/

 

 

[Jamesc]

No lah it was hiring sugary water drinks man.

 

 

[Terrylmt]

His worst decision was not to pen down all of his ideas and store them somewhere for future generations...

[Mustank]

Not simpur

[Kangadrool]

It's always the case lah: 一代不如一代。

[Atonchia]

No lah it was hiring sugary water drinks man.

 

 

I thought this was the best decision he had made.

 

Without John Sculley. Steve Jobs life story will just be a meteoric rise like many other successful stories.

 

People like success stories of great people overcoming adversity and rise from the ashes.

All thanks to John Sculley.

 

We have Pixar which change the way we view cartoons.

[Jamesc]

Steve Jobs ideas are very simple and he devoted his life to basically one idea.

 

To make a computer as smart as the HAL 9000.

 

Most of us replying on MCF would be using a keyboard to type our replies.

 

If only we had a HAL 9000 we would simply just say and HAL would type the post for us. 

 

  

[golden_eagle]

One needs to be richer than both of them in order to creticise either of them. 

[Ash2017]

Steve Jobs ideas are very simple and he devoted his life to basically one idea.

 

To make a computer as smart as the HAL 9000.

 

Most of us replying on MCF would be using a keyboard to type our replies.

 

If only we had a HAL 9000 we would simply just say and HAL would type the post for us.

 

But then HAL with AI may decide not to entertain you, them how?

[Jamesc]

But then HAL with AI may decide not to entertain you, them how?

 

Haha then cannot come in and play lah. 

 

 

But siri is also no better.

 

[Jamesc]

[Jamesc]

But then HAL with AI may decide not to entertain you, them how?

 

[Jamesc]

I wonder where Jobs got the idea for the Ipad.

 

 

 

 

Video conferencing?

 

 

 

Edited December 3, 2017 by Jamesc

[kdash]

no one can replace Steve Jobs... 

[Playtime]

Not simpur

You ah...

After reading the article.

I see what you did there

[Mustank]

You ah...

After reading the article.

I see what you did there ð

 

Have to say you got a point.

Alyah jnternet 卧虎藏龙 everywhere also 高手如云

Play play and forget

Laugh laugh can already lag

[Watwheels]

W/o a dose of bad leadership...you know, how will ppl appreciate what's good and what's bad from Steve Job?

 

Since when is decision making easy? The best word to describe is unpredictable. Nobody always win all the time.

[Beehive3783]

Now i know what you mean.

 

Really not simpur

 

Not simpur