Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson

Steve Jobs

What is good leadership?

Based on more than forty interviews with the late Steve Jobs, conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors and colleagues, this book chronicles the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and a ferocious drive revolutionised six industries: personal computers; animated movies; music; phones; tablet computing and digital publishing.

At a time 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, so he built a company where heaps of imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

He could drive those people around him to fury and despair, but his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be. As a leader he was charismatic and energetic, pushing people beyond the limits of what they believed they could accomplish and producing remarkable work as a result.

To save you hours reading the book – all 630 pages – here is a fantastic video outlining the full story and giving you useful ‘golden nuggets’ to help you improve your entrepreneurial leadership skills.

 The Steve Jobs Story Video – click to watch via Readitforme

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