I don’t disagree. Management and leadership is indispensable for organisation of large groups of people who are attempting to achieve a singular objective. There are important distinctions between the different styles of thinking and operating. The ‘social animal’ is characterised by charisma and ability to persuade, the ‘creative’ is characterised by the ability to think logically and imagine. The reason everyone knows the name Jobs and doesn’t know Wozniak is because Jobs is the charismatic influencer and takes credit for the work of Wozniak. In the case of Apple, it seems they have managed the balance between the styles of thinking to their great advantage but that isn’t the case in most places. Political and business people still hold much more power due to their ability to persuade and deceive. This is changing due to the influence of technology, the bailiwick of the creative type. There ought to be balance in our decision making or we end up falling under the spell of some charismatic psychopath.
The reason everyone knows the name Jobs and doesn’t know Wozniak is because Jobs is the charismatic influencer and takes credit for the work of Wozniak.
I agree with a good portion of your message, but I think its important to note this specific item – does Woz want the recognition (or more than he has)? THat one movie made him out to be this sad engineer who didn’t get he was being manipulated, but…engineers are in general smart, i find it challenging to believe that he wanted more recognition but didn’t get it. I tend more toward the belief he was happy to have done a lot of cool shit and become wealthy. I am in between, and would be pissed, but Woz and I are not the same. If there are interviews out there to the contrary i recind my comment, just felt worth noting.
There ought to be balance in our decision making or we end up falling under the spell of some charismatic psychopath.
This is also worth commenting on – I dont know if this has changed, but…steve jobs was kicked the fuck right out of apple. He saved the company, but when the company didn’t need saving they kicked him to the curb. I think with elon the power dynamics are different and it will require government intervention, but people are generally more sane than people want to give people credit for ;)
I don’t disagree. Management and leadership is indispensable for organisation of large groups of people who are attempting to achieve a singular objective. There are important distinctions between the different styles of thinking and operating. The ‘social animal’ is characterised by charisma and ability to persuade, the ‘creative’ is characterised by the ability to think logically and imagine. The reason everyone knows the name Jobs and doesn’t know Wozniak is because Jobs is the charismatic influencer and takes credit for the work of Wozniak. In the case of Apple, it seems they have managed the balance between the styles of thinking to their great advantage but that isn’t the case in most places. Political and business people still hold much more power due to their ability to persuade and deceive. This is changing due to the influence of technology, the bailiwick of the creative type. There ought to be balance in our decision making or we end up falling under the spell of some charismatic psychopath.
I agree with a good portion of your message, but I think its important to note this specific item – does Woz want the recognition (or more than he has)? THat one movie made him out to be this sad engineer who didn’t get he was being manipulated, but…engineers are in general smart, i find it challenging to believe that he wanted more recognition but didn’t get it. I tend more toward the belief he was happy to have done a lot of cool shit and become wealthy. I am in between, and would be pissed, but Woz and I are not the same. If there are interviews out there to the contrary i recind my comment, just felt worth noting.
This is also worth commenting on – I dont know if this has changed, but…steve jobs was kicked the fuck right out of apple. He saved the company, but when the company didn’t need saving they kicked him to the curb. I think with elon the power dynamics are different and it will require government intervention, but people are generally more sane than people want to give people credit for ;)