The Emotional Intelligence of Steve Jobs
I, probably like many business people, went to a talk last night about how to use social media in business. The presentation started with an obligatory picture of Steve Jobs and then went on to say you could rate how important Steve Jobs was because there were 10,000 tweets per second about him. (The hidden subtext was that was how many people found out about the death to Steve Jobs ie Twitter is important.) Then next slide showed a very interesting graphic on the global mourning (via Twit.....
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Fortune magazine has just named Steve Jobs as the CEO of the Decade. The edition features a number of stories about Steve Jobs including this wonderful article about the 21 Jobs-related books that have been published. Besides a terrific quote "He would have made an excellent king of France" by a former colleague, the author defines the books as falling into one of three genres: Genius: when he is developing some new product. Creep: discussing his personality flaws when he was ousted from Appl.....
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What kicked off this blog was a excellent article by Fiona Smith in the Australian Financial Review (16 November 2009): The downside of being nice. The thrust of the article was that while every management book in recent years has stressed the importance of workplace harmony, there is a counter argument personified by Steve Jobs. Fiona quotes how Bob Sutton describes Steve Jobs as the successful archetypal asshole in his book The No Asshole Rule. I then went on to google Bob Sutton+Steve Jobs a.....
Read MoreIs Craig Thompson a Corporate Psychopath?
Corporate psychopaths are continually in the news. Perhaps the most famous book on corporate psychopaths is Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare. In Australia, Dr John Clarke is generally recognised the expert on corporate psychopaths and I have had the pleasure of attending his seminars and reading his books. All of these authors generate a profile of psychopath and now we have both the 1100 page Fair Work Australia report and Thompson’s parliamentary.....
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