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Biografien forteller om Apple-gründer Steve Jobs' liv og virke, både yrkesmessig og privat.
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From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive, New York Times bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. 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.
Utgivelsesår 2011
Format Innbundet
ISBN13 9781451648539
EAN 9781451648539
Omtalt person Steve Jobs
Språk Engelsk
Utgave 1
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Den dagen han avduket Macintosh, spurte en reporter fra publikasjonen Popular Science Jobs hvilken form for markedsundersøkelser han hadde gjort. Jobs avviste spørsmålet hånlig: "Foretok Alexander Graham Bell markedsundersøkelser før han oppfant telefonen?"
Det å huske at jeg snart er død er det viktigste verktøyet jeg noensinne har vært borti når det gjelder å hjelpe meg å ta de store beslutningene i livet. For nesten alt - alle ytre forventninger, all stolthet, all frykt for å dumme seg ut eller mislykkes - disse tingene faller bare bort når man stilles ansikt til ansikt med døden. Bare det som egentlig er viktig står igjen. Det å huske at man skal dø er den beste metoden jeg kjenner for å unngå den fellen det er å tro at man har noe å tape. Du er allerede naken. Det er ingen grunn til å la være å følge hjertet. (Fra Steve Jobs eksamenstale ved Stanford uni. 2005.)
The idea that John Lasseter pitched was called "Toy Story". It sprang from a belief, which he and Jobs shared, that products have an essence to them, a purpose for which they were made. If the object were to have feelings, these would be based on its desire to fulfill its essence. The purpose of a glass, for example, is to hold water; if it had feelings, it would be happy when full and sad when empty.
He (Jobs) emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.
I mai 2016 var Høyre-politiker John Peter Hernes gjest på Sølvberget, Stavanger bibliotek. Der fortalte han om bøker som har formet ham fra barndom til voksenliv. Her er listen hans. Hør podcasten fra bokpraten her.