Becoming Steve Jobs

How a Reckless Upstart Became a Visionary Leader

448 pages

English language

Published Dec. 15, 2016 by Hodder & Stoughton.

ISBN:
978-1-4447-6201-3
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4 stars (11 reviews)

"Based on the hugely popular cover story about Steve Jobs in Fast Company in May 2012, this is the behind the scenes account of how Steve Jobs arguably became the most famous and visionary CEO in history. Award-winning journalist Brent Schlender and veteran editor Rick Tetzeli have interviewed friends, industry insiders, and the people who knew Jobs best throughout his evolution as a CEO and leader. In addition Schlender, who knew Jobs personally for 25 years, has over 100 hours of interview tapes with Jobs to draw on, many hours of which have never before been transcribed"--

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4 stars

A fascinating, holistic view of a singular personality and the process of honing his genius creative instincts into a reliable model of leadership and business acumen. I miss him—more than any product, Apple itself was his creation. It’s far from perfect, but our world would be considerably poorer without it.

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3 stars

If you are a big fan of Steve Jobs and treating him as a rock star, then this book is for you, as it's full of gossips you would like.

I'm not, so I don't like this book very much. I really appreciate the writing of the book and the story of Steve Jobs is good, and some parts are very interesting. However, there are something very important about Steve liking in this book.

Steve Jobs had a wonderful life, full of drama. The most interesting things about him, I think, should be how he faces those dramas and deal with them, how those brilliant ideas came out, how he achieves such a brilliant life. This book is really good at presenting what happened to Steve Jobs, just like a boring history book, without any good analysis and explanation.

Another thing I don’t like the book is the author seems …

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Subjects

  • Jobs, steve, 1955-2011
  • Engineers, biography
  • Businesspeople, biography