She aims to forgive him and move on. That's her choice and her right. But, as others have pointed out, what she endured was something many people would now consider child abuse — the intentional infliction of emotional cruelty. And in trying to find a way to forgive and understand him, she is reacting similarly to other survivors.
His Daughter Forgives Him. Should We? I understand this is her story to tell but In trying to find a way to excuse her father, Brennan-Jobs is following a long line of people, all of whom are much more culpable than her for his behavior.
Generally, the only way to get a bully to back off is to stand up to him and for others to do so on behalf of his targets; in Jobs' case, too few people did. When it concerned his behavior toward Brennan-Jobs, his wife, Powell Jobs, clearly didn't stand up to him.
When it concerned his behavior toward employees and business partners, his colleagues just as obviously didn't. I don't know how the cosmic balancing stick weighs something as complicated as a person's life, but I do think Brennan-Jobs' book puts the other stories about Jobs, the ones about how he treated his employees, colleagues, and partners, in a different light.
They make him seem less like a driven leader who was sometimes harsh to achieve his goals and more like a cruel person who succeeded because those around him accommodated and acquiesced to his awfulness. Jobs is rightly praised for his role in resurrecting Apple. When he took charge, the company was a few months away from bankruptcy. When he left Apple right before his death, it already was the most important consumer-technology company in the world and was well on its way to becoming the behemoth it is now.
Given the generally poor track record of corporate managers in turning around seemingly hopeless situations, it's quite possible that only Jobs could have saved Apple and put it on that path. And that's no small achievement. In turning around the company, Jobs saved thousands of jobs and helped to create thousands more. He also made lots of people inside and outside the company very rich. The positive side of Jobs' ledger also includes his role in creating some of the most influential products of the past 50 years — the iPhone, the Mac, the iPad, the iPod, and the original Apple computers.
Maybe similar products could and would have been created without him. But there's no denying that he had a leading role in shaping how billions of people interact with technology, in many ways for the better. Of course even those achievements are leavened by less laudable ones, such as his overseeing of Apple's outsourcing of thousands of factory jobs overseas and the convoluted contortions the company made to avoid paying taxes.
He also headed the company and personally benefited when it backdated stock options to make them more valuable but let other executives take the fall. Oh, and he repeatedly yelled at employees and publicly embarrassed them. And that's not to mention his antics during his first tenure at Apple, such as how he attempted to undermine then-CEO John Sculley and refused to give stock options to one of Apple's earliest employees.
In the end, did his business achievements outweigh the cruelty he inflicted on others? I don't know. I do know that we too often glorify business leaders for their achievements without taking a close look at who they are as human beings and how their actions — both personal and professional — affect those around them and the wider world. I also believe that focus on their accomplishments helps enables their bad behavior. Steve Jobs' wife told his daughter 'we're just cold people' when she asked them to say good night to her.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs reveals more details from her memoir about life with her father Steve Jobs — and it sounds absolutely brutal. Inflation is at a year high. But these Mad Money megatrends could help you fight back. As of p. I was not very sensitive, and I hurt their feelings. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background.
When Steve had to make cutbacks at Pixar, he fired people and didn't give any severance pay. Pamela Kerwin, an early Pixar employee, pleaded that employees at least be given two weeks notice.
While working at Atari, Jobs recruited Wozniak's help to build a scaled down version of Pong. There was a big bonus involved in getting it done quickly and efficiently, and Jobs lied about how much money was involved, pocketing the majority of the money for himself.
Daniel Kottke was one of Apple's first employees and was even a personal friend of Jobs -- the two traveled around India together in But for some reason, Jobs never set him up with stock options.
The candidate looked baffled. The candidate sat there flustered, so Jobs changed the subject. When MobileMe launched in the summer of , it was plagued with problems. People had trouble getting their data to sync to the cloud and across their devices.
To address the problem, Jobs gathered the MobileMe team in Apple's auditorium and asked: "Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do? In , Joe Nocera was working on a column about Steve Jobs' health, criticizing Jobs and Apple for keeping it a secret from investors.
Steve Jobs wanted to make a big splash with the iPad's ad campaign. The iPad is revolutionizing the world, and we need something big.
That triggered an argument between the two men. Jobs couldn't decide what he wanted, he just wanted Vincent to come up with something new and exciting.
After a lot of back and forth, the "Revolution" ad campaign began. When Gawker's Ryan Tate wrote an e-mail to Steve Jobs asking why he denied developers the "freedom" to create what they wanted on the iPad, it kicked off a heated exchange of e-mails.
I once asked him why he gets so mad about stuff. He said, "But I don't stay mad. But, there are other times, I think honestly, when he's very frustrated, and his way to achieve catharsis is to hurt somebody. And I think he feels he has a liberty and license to do that. The normal rules of social engagement, he feels, don't apply to him. That means that there are people that think and feel while others work using only their intuition. Like this, there are another 15 possible combinations that allow us to roughly classify the personality of a human being.
The purpose of this test is to understand how we build our lifestyle taking into consideration our interests, motivations, and values. If a person is able to understand what type of personality they have, they are more likely to try projects that best fit their strengths. Vocational course providers, job interviewers, and self-improvement therapists use this kind of test all the time.
It is common to find many ENTJs in the business and entertainment world, as these people tend to fulfill their plans in one way or another. Gene Simmons, Franklin D. The ability to create a plan based on innovative ideas and stick to it until the end is something that every leader needs. Besides if you are also charismatic, you can work under pressure, and have the power to be rational at all costs, great things will come your way.
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