素材記事：Corning CEO says Steve Jobs pressured him into making all the screens for the first iPhone: ‘Do you know what your biggest problem is? You’re afraid’
素材写真：Apple’s late cofounder and then-CEO, Steve Jobs in 2007 Sean Gallup. Getty Images.
You can see Steve Jobs’s forcefulness in how he pushed the president of his partner company to break through his limits by shaking him up with his fierce communication skills. The CEO of Corning, the world’s largest LCD glass manufacturer, looks back on that time.
“But look what you’re doing,” Jobs told him. “You are putting your reputation [first]. You’re worried about you looking bad, and you’re keeping your people from greatness. Imagine how they’re going to feel?the folks that are working in that plant in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, all your investors … You’re putting yourself above them and your company.”
It sounds like something straight out of a movie script. “Your greatest enemy is fear. By overcoming it, you can contribute to society.” This is how this visionary inspired people.
At the same time, as multiple biographies point out, Jobs’s ruthlessness has led many people to ruin. Because, as this article also notes, for them it was a “generous and dangerous gamble.”
Even if they failed at the gamble of a lifetime, Jobs could rise again with his innate maniacal positivity and ambition. But can every leader do that? Absolutely not. Probably as many co-founders who built new worlds with him were sent to hell.
Even considering that, he remains a visionary of the highest order. It’s crucial to maintain a healthy distance when dealing with such dangerous geniuses. And to pair them effectively with a “top-tier beast tamer” like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Either way, he still remains a captivating leader whose story endures.
スティーブ・ジョブズがこのようにしてパートナー会社の社長をそのコミュニケーション能力で追い込み、揺さぶりながら限界を突破させようとする迫力が見えます。世界最大の液晶ガラスメーカーであるコーニングのCEOが当時を振り返ります。
“But look what you’re doing,” Jobs told him. “You are putting your reputation [first]. You’re worried about you looking bad, and you’re keeping your people from greatness. Imagine how they’re going to feel?the folks that are working in that plant in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, all your investors … You’re putting yourself above them and your company.”
なんて、すぐに映画のセリフになりそうですよね。”君の最大の敵は恐れだ。それを乗り越えることで君は社会に貢献できるんだ。”…こうやって、このビジョナリーは人々を鼓舞してきました。
それと同時に、複数の伝記が指摘するように、ジョブズの苛烈さは、多くの人の人生を破滅に導いてきた。なぜなら、この記事も指摘するように、彼らにとってはそれが”潤沢で危険なギャンブル”だったからです。
一世一代のギャンブルに失敗しても、ジョブズは持ち前の狂気的なポジティブさと野心とで立ち上がれますが、全てのリーダーがそれをできるかというと全くそんなことはない。おそらく、共に新世界を築いた数と同じぐらいの数のパートナー社長たちが、地獄に落とされたのでしょう。
それも含めて、やはり超一級のビジョナリーなんでしょうね、彼は。こういう天才とは上手く距離をとって接することが重要です。それと、Apple共同創業者のWozniackのような「超一流の猛獣使い」をうまくあてがうこと。
どちらにせよ、語り継がれる魅力的なリーダーではあります。
