I just finished reading Steve Jobs biography and, not surprizingly, it’s great.  Very thorough (almost 700 pages!), but also an easy read. As the book was coming out, I made a prediction that it would cause problems for those of us who work in office environments. My belief was that managers would read the book, get inspired, and try to force creativity on their underlings, not realizing that they’d actually cause more harm than good. I’m revising that prediction: The book is still going to cause problems for those in corporate jobs.  Except, instead of poor attempts at fostering creativity, people are going to turn into huge, psychotic, unprofessional, dicks who attack everyone they interact with.  The rational being, “Hey, it worked for Jobs, so it should work for me!”.  The problem being that the person thinking that works in shipping for a big multinational or something and lacks the insight, leadership, and proven success to pull that kind of shtick off. Sidebar: I’m amazed at how frequently over the last 30 years Jobs openly cried in meetings.  To quote Tom Hanks in A League Of Their Own, “There’s no crying in baseball”.  Seriously. Either way, good book. Worth a read.

I just finished reading Steve Jobs biography and, not surprizingly, it’s great.  Very thorough (almost 700 pages!), but also an easy read.

As the book was coming out, I made a prediction that it would cause problems for those of us who work in office environments. My belief was that managers would read the book, get inspired, and try to force creativity on their underlings, not realizing that they’d actually cause more harm than good.

I’m revising that prediction: The book is still going to cause problems for those in corporate jobs.  Except, instead of poor attempts at fostering creativity, people are going to turn into huge, psychotic, unprofessional, dicks who attack everyone they interact with.  The rational being, “Hey, it worked for Jobs, so it should work for me!”.  The problem being that the person thinking that works in shipping for a big multinational or something and lacks the insight, leadership, and proven success to pull that kind of shtick off.

Sidebar: I’m amazed at how frequently over the last 30 years Jobs openly cried in meetings.  To quote Tom Hanks in A League Of Their Own, “There’s no crying in baseball”.  Seriously.

Either way, good book. Worth a read.

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