Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO
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Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO
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Re: Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO
#2I'd like to have been a fly on the wall for these infamous board meetings where Jobs and Sculley began to move apart. There were probably more idiosyncratic lessons there than any of the biographies or interviews lead on.
Re: Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO
#3This headline makes for a misleading soundbite. The context is that Sculley is saying that Apple's biggest mistake was making Sculley CEO instead of Steve. The board "wasn’t prepared to make [Jobs] CEO when he was 25, 26 years old."
Thankfully that kind of thinking has changed in today's tech world.
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#4I think that this says a lot about John Sculley's character. He has the strength to admit the realities about Apple. I find it surprising that so many former-CEOs are unable to admit the obvious.
I used to own his book Odyssey which describes his view of the world in 1987.
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#5Even Steve Jobs was not trusted by his board because of lack of "experience". Those with experience tend to always overvalue it and rarely see their own limitations.
Re: Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO
#6I admire his humility. I believe it's Jim Collins (Good to Great book) who describes these types of CEOs as Level 5 leaders. I don't know Sculley's career, but maybe he would have been more successful being in an industry he was familiar with?
Re: Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO
#7This headline makes for a misleading soundbite. The context is that Sculley is saying that Apple's biggest mistake was making Sculley CEO instead of Steve . The board "wasn’t prepared to make [Jobs] CEO when he was 25, 26 years old." Thankfully that kind of thinking has changed in today's tech world.
He's also very clear on why he was not a good choice for CEO.
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#8In hindsight one could say a 28 year old Jobs could have handled CEO after what we've seen him do in the last decade. It seems more likely however, that the lessons he learned in the 90s at NeXT were essential, not to mention the engineers and codebase used later in OSX. Sculley's humility is admirable, but maybe Jobs really wasn't ready.
Re: Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO
#9This headline makes for a misleading soundbite. The context is that Sculley is saying that Apple's biggest mistake was making Sculley CEO instead of Steve . The board "wasn’t prepared to make [Jobs] CEO when he was 25, 26 years old." Thankfully that kind of thinking has changed in today's tech world.
He's also very clear on why he was not a good choice for CEO.
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Re: Sculley: Apple’s Big Mistake Was Hiring Me As CEO
#10Even Steve Jobs was not trusted by his board because of lack of "experience". Those with experience tend to always overvalue it and rarely see their own limitations.
But those without experience tend to undervalue it.
Getting turfed from Apple was the best thing that happened to Steve Jobs. If you read the folklore, he was bit of an enfant terrible, and I'm of the view that the experience of running NeXT and Pixar gave him the insight to turn around Apple.
I'm not nearly convinced that Apple would be the same company it is today if Steve Jobs had not been forced out.