“The best piece of management advice I’ve ever heard came from a boss who said his job was to set the bar for performance incredibly high and cheer like crazy for his employees to clear it,” Elizabeth Corcoran writes for Forbes.
“Every great company starts with some phenomenal product. The hard part is doing it again, and again, and again,” Corcoran writes.
Corcoran writes, “What has been most remarkable about Apple Computer under the steely scrutiny of Steve Jobs is the number of genuinely big hits the company has rolled out. It certainly has not invented everything it sells. But because we’ve seen Apple with Jobs and without, the company is almost a laboratory experiment of the role of top management in turning an idea into a ‘perfect’ thing.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
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I thought the way to manage was to steal every idea you can!
Kimmy, you’re thinking of Microsoft’s “strategy” of “management”.
And I believe the term they are more familiar with is reverse engineer.
Kimmy knew this. Kimmy was hoping that you would understand that Kimmy knew this. And that you would continue the sarcasm that was laid on heavily.
Apple Computer under Steve Jobs does the remarkable again, and again, and again.
Yet my brand-new MacBook Pro can’t hold a WiFi connection for more than a minute without dropping it…
MDN ‘magic’ word: “try.” As in just try to surf wirelessly with this thing!
macca, no problems with my WIFI on the MBP… Could be issues with your wireless router.
j, what exactly, in Ozzy’S post, makes you think that he didn’t get the sarcasm?
Anyways, this is slow newsdays news…even macsimumnews.com looks empty as of today.
b – I’ve got an iBook in the same room, and it surfs flawlessly. It’s not the router. Plus, if you visit the Apple discussions on the MBP, this is one of the top issues that people complain about.
Macca –
Use a new MBP 2.16 at work and out “in the real world” on different wireless routers, works perfectly every time. Might be your wireless or something specific to your hardware.
MDN magic word “outside” time to keep thinking outside the box.
I have a netgear router with my MBP. It likes to drop everyone occasionally. I would definitely be inclined to blame the router before the lappy. Keep your eye on the wireless broadcast light when you lose your connection. Mine goes out.
But for the $20 I paid for it, I can’t really complain.
Macca: Brilliant! Your single piece of anecdotal evidence refutes the entire argument about a universally-acception interpretation of a business phenomenon that’s been going on for nearly a decade.
(Oh, wait, you were kidding.)
If Macca knew what he was doing, he would still be holding out for a, soon to come, Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro and not screwing around with a brand new MacBook Pro with last summer’s chip in it.
Big Al:
My, aren’t we the catty one this morning…. or was that sarcasm too?
the company is almost a laboratory experiment of the role of top management in turning an idea into a ‘perfect’ thing
It’s written for a bizmag, you see, that’s why it says “top management” when it really should say something else.
Macca: Brilliant! Your single piece of anecdotal evidence refutes the entire argument about a universally-acception interpretation of a business phenomenon that’s been going on for nearly a decade.
Your sarcasm would be well-placed if I were the only one with this problem. However, many MBP owners have run into serious wireless issues involving the constant dropping of WiFi signals.
And as I said, it’s not the router or my ISP. I have a three-year-old iBook in the same room as my MacBook, and it surfs without the slightest problem.
By the way, it’s likely a software issue. Several MBP owners with this problem have said that their machines surf fine wirelessly when booted up into Windows. Now that’s embarrassing.
What is the point of your threadjacking, Macca? Whine and seethe on an unrelated forum so you can be the big man?
Macca–try pressing the “any” key…
Great article, highly recommended! Should be required reading in business schools. Levy’s book might also work but I haven’t read that yet.
“Bad artists copy, good artists steal” – Pablo Picasso