What will you learn from this book
Take-Aways
• Steve Jobs grew up with his adoptive parents, Clara and Paul Jobs.
• He learned important lessons about craftsmanship from his father and these lessons stayed with him for the rest of his life.
• It is important to properly craft even those parts of a machine that was not openly visible. What is on the inside matters too.
• As a young boy, Steve was a mischievous and bright child and grew up to be sharp, charismatic and no less than revolutionary in the domain of computers.
• Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs together started apple along with a friend of theirs who withdrew eventually before apple could get where it is today. The rest is history.
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 034914043X |
| ISBN-13 | 9780349140438 |
| No of pages | 630 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Little, Brown |
| Published Date | 11 Feb 2015 |
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Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. Likewise, his friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, demons, perfectionism, desires, artistry, devilry, and obsession for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were all interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values." --jacket flap