Steve Jobs (Management CD)

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.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair.
But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple�s
hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His
tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation,
character, leadership, and values