With the exception of exceptions, little like to make us wait. Steve Jobs, so special in its essence, was no different from this majority. Apple's co-founder hated that the rest was late to the point of starting high-speed meetings without one of the participants because he did not arrive on time. Although the jewel of the crown was taken by its secretary, which far from withdrawing the fury, managed to “tear” a cochazo.
“I have always done these things, I was surprised by people.”
Steve Jobs Anecdotes there are many. Most, extracted from their own biography, written by Walter Isaacson. That of his secretary and the Jaguar does not appear in any of them, but Ron Givens said to his day. He was Apple’s quality director for five years, in particular from 1981 to 1986.
With the exception of last year, in which Jobs was already out of Apple after having invited him to leave after his waste with projects like Apple Lisa, Givens agreed for a long time with him. Enough for having experienced a story of Rocambolesca who remembered Wral News after the death of Jobs.
Givens had the good performance shown by the secretary of Steve Jobs at the time. Her name is not known, nor any other data beyond that she was a single mother. On an occasion, and still according to Givens, he was late at the office. Upon entering, Steve Jobs was waiting for him.
Knowing the complicated nature of the company's co-founder, accentuated by an extremely dark part of his personality, anyone would think that jobs could have dismissed him. But not. He asked this secretary what had happened late, that he was apologized by declaring that he had had problems starting the car. The thing seemed to stay there.
However, at the time (indeterminate), Steve Jobs appeared with the keys to a car, a jaguar of the time, gave them to his secretary and said “take it, so that you are no longer late” . A gift is certainly poisoned if we take into account that the objective was none other than going to work soon. In fact, a gift.
Nothing stopped Steve Jobs in order to have a motivated team
Despite this hard character of the jobs, Ron Givens tells as This gesture was not only something punctual. He said he was an “excellent motivator”, a “good leader” and that he had gestures as unusual as to give a car to his secretary.
All because, after all, if Jobs trusted something, it was in teamwork. I saw vital having a team with good ideas and for that, I had to motivate them and without problems that prevented them from thinking of anything other than innovation. This is why he has always started meetings with the same sentence: “What do you have in mind?”, Displaying the possible concerns that his team could have.
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