“If you really want to learn about cancer and liver transplants, you can go to the library. If you’re an investor and really can’t live with the uncertainty that today’s announcement brings to Apple stock, well, sell your shares and thank Steve Jobs for the ridiculous profits you’ve made. If you decide to hang on to your shares, that’s fine too—but don’t go around claiming that your handful of shares gives you the right to pry into the private life of a sick man.”
Dan Lyons: Why We Should All Leave Steve Jobs Alone (Including Me) - The Daily Beast
Well said, sir.
For my part (and this is the only time I’ll weigh in on this event at all), I’m grateful to Steve not just for making Apple what it is today; it enables me to do what I do and love every minute. But I’m also (if not more) grateful that his perfectionism extended to Apple HR, and that the company is now home to some of the most talented people in the business.
Steve has created something fantastic, sure— but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking that it can’t exist without him watching everyone personally. It exists because he found the right people to run it, a job they will continue to do whether Steve watches them do so or not.
