On November 22, 2009
How much EQ does Steve Jobs really have? (Part 1)
What kicked off this blog was a excellent article by Fiona Smith in the Australian Financial Review (16 November 2009) The downside of being nice The thrust of the article was that while every management book in recent years has stressed the importance of workplace harmony, there is a counter argument personified by Steve Jobs. Fiona quotes how Bob Sutton describes Steve Jobs as the successful archetypal asshole in his book The No Asshole Rule. I then went on to google Bob Sutton+Steve Jobs and got this great post. Also I discovered that Bob Sutton was the same Robert Sutton who is a co-author with Jeffery Pfeffer who I have already blogged about. Closing the circle got me thinking…
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