Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into A Visionary Leader [FIRST EDITON, FIRST PRINTING]

Schlender, Brent; Tetzeli, Rick

Published by Crown Business, New York, 2015

As new condition black boards with silver front cover and spine lettering, contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Authors' Note, Prologue, Source Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and Index. Illustrated with sections of both black and white and color photographs. "A brilliantly reported, compellingly written book that overturns the conventional view of Steve Jobs - the Jobs that is frozen forever as half genius, half jerk - Becoming Steve Jobs answers the central question about the life and career of the Apple co-founder and CEO. How did a young man so reckless and arrogant that he was exiled from the company he founded become the most effective visionary business leader of our time? Drawing on extensive interviews with Jobs's inner circle, family members, friends, and competitors, veteran journalists Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli present a portrait of Jobs that is far more nuanced and intimate than previous biographies. A lively and insightful reexamination of Jobs's early career sets the foundation for the saga of his painful, complicated, and ultimately triumphant effort to reinvent himself as a leader. Beginning with his years as founder and CEO of NeXT, and his purchase of Pixar in 1986, Schlender and Tetzeli portray an man undergoing an evolution full of failures, flashes of insight, missteps, and luck. Jobs himself did not like to look back and explain his trajectory, but Schlender and Tetzeli do just that, revealing the hidden influences that shaped his late success. They show the managerial skills Jobs learned from Ed Catmull, prisident of Pixar; the maturation that fatherhood brought him in the early 1990's; the way in which Bill Gates's success at Microsoft opened a path for Jobs when he returned to Apple; and the little-reported contributions of the outstanding executive team that Jobs hid from the press over the decades. As his wife, Laurene, says of her late husband, Steve was a "learning machine," and his education continued long after his return to Apple in 1997. Schlender and Tetzeli make clear that Jobs's astounding success was far more complicated than simply picking the right products - iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. In his later life, he became more patient, he trusted his inner circle, and he grew the company incrementally, rather than shooting only for dazzling game-changing products. This new, mature management style, when combined with his unchanging, relentless passion, created a company unlike any other. Schlender and Tetzeli also describe the intimate, deep relationships he developed with a very small group of people, unveiling a side of Steve Jobs that readers have never encountered before. A rich and revealing account that will change the way we view Jobs. Becoming Steve Jobs shows us how one of the most colorful and compelling figures of our times created one of the most valuable and beloved companies on the planet.". Seller Inventory # 001147

Bibliographic Details

Title: Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a ...
Publisher: Crown Business, New York
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: 1st Edition