长期以来,苹果的幕后执掌人史蒂夫·乔布斯一直是其他商业领袖竞相学习的对象。在2011年去世之时,其预估身家达到了102亿美元,但他宣称金钱并不是其首要追求。
乔布斯在美国公共广播公司(PBS)1996年的纪录片中表示:“23岁那年,我的身价就达到了100多万美元,24岁时超过了1000万美元,25岁时超过了1亿美元,但这些并没有那么重要。”终其一生,乔布斯始终秉持着这一信念,坐拥巨大财富的他在生活上却十分低调。美国广播公司新闻网(ABC News)称,即便在担任苹果公司这个《财富》美国500强榜单季军的首席执行官期间,他用的车仍是租来的,而且其在加州帕洛阿尔托的住宅也“十分朴素”。
乔布斯更为关注的是:在通过工作创造影响力的同时享受生活。在因胰腺癌去世前不久,有消息称乔布斯曾建议迪士尼首席执行官鲍勃·艾格早日告老还乡,享受生活。
《纽约时报》(New York Times)的一篇报道称,近10年后,艾格在思考自己的迪士尼未来规划时也一直在思考乔布斯的这个建议。该报道详细讲述了艾格在2020年卸任迪士尼首席执行官,并在两年后突然回归的故事。
《纽约时报》的报道称,这位已故的苹果首席执行官对艾格说,别在迪士尼待太久,去享受美好的生活吧。
苹果并未回复《财富》杂志有关乔布斯建议的置评请求。
2021年,艾格对美国消费者新闻与商业频道(CNBC)说,在卸任首席执行官一职时,他感觉自己已经变得非常不愿意听取他人的建议。
他说:“随着时间的推移,我倾听的更少了,而且变得对他人的意见有点反感。可能是因为变得更加自负了一些,这是人们在位高权重之后时常会发生的事情。”
不过,当艾格在2020年卸任首席执行官一职时,他并没有完全退出迪士尼,而是以董事长的身份参与公司的运营。
此举最终导致他与自己挑选的接班人鲍勃·查佩克之间出现了嫌隙。董事会最终炒了查佩克鱿鱼,并在2022年让艾格重新执掌迪士尼。
艾格在2019年出版的自传《一生的旅程:担任迪士尼首席执行官的15年》(The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company)中写道:“当公司的两位顶层高管不和时,公司内部也就无法正常运转。这种情形就如同家里有一对天天吵架的父母。”
迪士尼代表和艾格并未回复《财富》杂志的置评请求。
与此同时,艾格正在关注此次重新出山的卸任事宜,并开始再次思考迪士尼的继任人选。他在Spotify 8月21日发布的网播节目中对凯利·里帕说,事实上,艾格非常渴望退休,而且在“一门心思”地寻找其继任者。
他说:“可以这么说,我始终都在思考[首席执行官继任人选],用‘我已痴迷于此事’来形容也毫不夸张,而且实际上,在我回归之后,董事会和我一致认为,继任事宜即便不是公司最优先考虑的事情,也是最优先考虑的事情之一。”
来自乔布斯的其他建议
艾格的回忆录称,在乔布斯2006年将其动漫工作室皮克斯(Pixar)出售给迪士尼之后,乔布斯与艾格成为了好朋友。乔布斯曾是迪士尼的大股东,也是其董事。
艾格在2018年接受高盛(Goldman Sachs)的采访中谈到乔布斯时表示:“很幸运的是,我们两相处的很融洽,既有商业[往来],也有朋友情谊,十分特别。我从他那学到了很多东西。”
令乔布斯声名大噪的不仅仅是其科技产品,同时还有其睿智的管理和商业建议。他曾说过一句名言,他不会聘请“庸才”,而是在寻求那些能够在个人工作中大放异彩的人。
乔布斯在上个世纪80年代中期的一个采访中表示:“知道最好的经理是哪类人吗?他们是伟大的个人奉献者,虽然他们从来没有想过当经理,但却决定必须担任这一职务,因为没有人能够在工作中达到他们的水平。”
在其诸多最棒的管理建议中,他还强调了公司使命和愿景的重要性。
乔布斯在同一采访中表示:“领导力在于:设立愿景,并将其清晰地表达出来,这样你的员工才能理解这个愿景,然后围绕共同的愿景达成共识。”(财富中文网)
译者:冯丰
审校:夏林
长期以来,苹果的幕后执掌人史蒂夫·乔布斯一直是其他商业领袖竞相学习的对象。在2011年去世之时,其预估身家达到了102亿美元,但他宣称金钱并不是其首要追求。
乔布斯在美国公共广播公司(PBS)1996年的纪录片中表示:“23岁那年,我的身价就达到了100多万美元,24岁时超过了1000万美元,25岁时超过了1亿美元,但这些并没有那么重要。”终其一生,乔布斯始终秉持着这一信念,坐拥巨大财富的他在生活上却十分低调。美国广播公司新闻网(ABC News)称,即便在担任苹果公司这个《财富》美国500强榜单季军的首席执行官期间,他用的车仍是租来的,而且其在加州帕洛阿尔托的住宅也“十分朴素”。
乔布斯更为关注的是:在通过工作创造影响力的同时享受生活。在因胰腺癌去世前不久,有消息称乔布斯曾建议迪士尼首席执行官鲍勃·艾格早日告老还乡,享受生活。
《纽约时报》(New York Times)的一篇报道称,近10年后,艾格在思考自己的迪士尼未来规划时也一直在思考乔布斯的这个建议。该报道详细讲述了艾格在2020年卸任迪士尼首席执行官,并在两年后突然回归的故事。
《纽约时报》的报道称,这位已故的苹果首席执行官对艾格说,别在迪士尼待太久,去享受美好的生活吧。
苹果并未回复《财富》杂志有关乔布斯建议的置评请求。
2021年,艾格对美国消费者新闻与商业频道(CNBC)说,在卸任首席执行官一职时,他感觉自己已经变得非常不愿意听取他人的建议。
他说:“随着时间的推移,我倾听的更少了,而且变得对他人的意见有点反感。可能是因为变得更加自负了一些,这是人们在位高权重之后时常会发生的事情。”
不过,当艾格在2020年卸任首席执行官一职时,他并没有完全退出迪士尼,而是以董事长的身份参与公司的运营。
此举最终导致他与自己挑选的接班人鲍勃·查佩克之间出现了嫌隙。董事会最终炒了查佩克鱿鱼,并在2022年让艾格重新执掌迪士尼。
艾格在2019年出版的自传《一生的旅程:担任迪士尼首席执行官的15年》(The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company)中写道:“当公司的两位顶层高管不和时,公司内部也就无法正常运转。这种情形就如同家里有一对天天吵架的父母。”
迪士尼代表和艾格并未回复《财富》杂志的置评请求。
与此同时,艾格正在关注此次重新出山的卸任事宜,并开始再次思考迪士尼的继任人选。他在Spotify 8月21日发布的网播节目中对凯利·里帕说,事实上,艾格非常渴望退休,而且在“一门心思”地寻找其继任者。
他说:“可以这么说,我始终都在思考[首席执行官继任人选],用‘我已痴迷于此事’来形容也毫不夸张,而且实际上,在我回归之后,董事会和我一致认为,继任事宜即便不是公司最优先考虑的事情,也是最优先考虑的事情之一。”
来自乔布斯的其他建议
艾格的回忆录称,在乔布斯2006年将其动漫工作室皮克斯(Pixar)出售给迪士尼之后,乔布斯与艾格成为了好朋友。乔布斯曾是迪士尼的大股东,也是其董事。
艾格在2018年接受高盛(Goldman Sachs)的采访中谈到乔布斯时表示:“很幸运的是,我们两相处的很融洽,既有商业[往来],也有朋友情谊,十分特别。我从他那学到了很多东西。”
令乔布斯声名大噪的不仅仅是其科技产品,同时还有其睿智的管理和商业建议。他曾说过一句名言,他不会聘请“庸才”,而是在寻求那些能够在个人工作中大放异彩的人。
乔布斯在上个世纪80年代中期的一个采访中表示:“知道最好的经理是哪类人吗?他们是伟大的个人奉献者,虽然他们从来没有想过当经理,但却决定必须担任这一职务,因为没有人能够在工作中达到他们的水平。”
在其诸多最棒的管理建议中,他还强调了公司使命和愿景的重要性。
乔布斯在同一采访中表示:“领导力在于:设立愿景,并将其清晰地表达出来,这样你的员工才能理解这个愿景,然后围绕共同的愿景达成共识。”(财富中文网)
译者:冯丰
审校:夏林
Steve Jobs, one of the masterminds behind Apple, has long been an inspiration for other business leaders to emulate. He was worth an estimated $10.2 billion at the time of his 2011 death, yet preached money wasn’t a top priority.
“I was worth about over $1 million when I was 23, and over $10 million when I was 24, and over $100 million when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important,” Jobs said in a 1996 PBS documentary. This sentiment rang true throughout Jobs’s life, which he lived quite modestly considering his vast wealth. Even while CEO of Apple, which ranks No. 3 on the Fortune 500, he leased his car and lived in an “understated” home in Palo Alto, Calif., according to ABC News.
Jobs was more concerned with having an impact through his work—while simultaneously enjoying life. And shortly before his death due to pancreatic cancer, Jobs reportedly told Disney CEO Bob Iger to do the same.
Nearly a decade later, that advice was on Iger’s mind as he contemplated his own future at Disney, according to a report by The New York Times detailing his departure from the CEO role in 2020 and abrupt return two years later.
The late Apple CEO told Iger not to stay too long at Disney and to enjoy the good things in life, the Times said.
Apple didn’t respond to Fortune’s request for comment on Jobs’s advice.
In 2021, Iger told CNBC he stepped down as CEO when he felt as if he was becoming too dismissive of other views.
“Over time, I started listening less and maybe with a little less tolerance of other people’s opinions, maybe because of getting a little bit more overconfident in my own, which is sometimes what happens when you get built up,” he said.
But while Iger left his post as CEO in 2020, he didn’t completely step away from Disney. He remained chairman and stayed involved in the company’s operations.
This ultimately caused friction with his hand-picked replacement as CEO, Bob Chapek. The board ultimately fired Chapek and brought back Iger in 2022.
“When the two people at the top of a company have a dysfunctional relationship, there’s no way that the rest of the company beneath them can be functional,” Iger wrote in his 2019 autobiography The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. “It’s like having two parents who fight all the time.”
Representatives for Disney and Iger didn’t respond to Fortune’s request for comment.
Meanwhile, Iger is eyeing the end of his second go-around as CEO and is again thinking about succession at Disney. In fact, Iger is so keen on retirement that he’s “obsessed” with finding his replacement, he told Kelly Ripa in a podcast released Aug. 21 on Spotify.
“I think it would be safe to assume that I think about [CEO succession] all the time,” he said. “I could say that ‘I’m obsessed with it’ would be probably an understatement, and actually, the board and I established when I returned that that would be among our biggest, if not our biggest, [priorities].”
Other advice from Jobs
Jobs and Iger became friends when Jobs sold his animation studio Pixar to Disney in 2006, according to Iger’s memoir. Jobs also was a major shareholder in Disney and a member of the board of directors.
“I was fortunate that he and I had a rapport and struck up both a business [relationship] and friendship that became very special,” Iger said, speaking about Jobs, in a 2018 interview with Goldman Sachs. “I learned a lot from him.”
Jobs isn’t known just for his technological advancements, but also for his sound management and business advice. He famously said he didn’t hire “bozos” and rather looked for people who performed strongly at their individual jobs.
“You know who the best managers are? They’re the great individual contributors who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is going to be able to do as good a job as that,” Jobs said in a mid-1980s interview.
He also emphasized the importance of mission and vision for a company as one of his top pieces of management advice.
“That’s what leadership is: having a vision, being able to articulate that so that people around you can understand it and getting a consensus on a common vision,” Jobs said in that same interview.