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Apple founder Steve Jobs helped create an entire culture around the products his company produces. What would it be like if leaders created a culture around the manner in which he lead his companies.
The Cinnamon Girl once told me that the average American family owned something like $2000 worth of Apple products and, before I could even begin to debate her – never a good idea, debating The Cinnamon Girl – my mind began to catalog the devices in our home and in our hands: computers, iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, etc. The numbers added up very quickly.
Too quickly.
Apple makes quality products. There is no doubt of that. Apple delivers quality service. The is, likewise, little debate here. It seems to me that Apple is the only company that could make me even consider spending money on a watch (4.24.15 is coming, right?).
All that said, I do not consider myself a part of “The Apple Culture.” Perhaps this is a delusion, but I maintain it vigorously. Apple Stores drive me crazy. I bristle at Apple’s media saturation. I resist the pull of eating the fruit of the garden.
Obviously, I am not always successful in that resistance.
But I recognize there is something different and special about the company. That quality seems to come, at least in part, from the late Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder.
Image from Time Magazine – John Sullivan, Getty Images.
There’s nothing insightful in stating that. Jobs was an outside-the-box, premise challenging, pain-in-the-ass type thinker who seemed both uncomfortable in any status quo situation and unable to sit quietly within one. He did things differently and it’s no surprise that Apple and, later, Pixar – another company Jobs had a hand in founding, would adopt his way of proceeding.
Time Magazine published a piece this week on how Jobs ran meetings and it’s worth a read for anyone – any leader – who has ever had to convene a gathering and chair it. You can read the whole article (which includes video of a young Jobs) HERE but the highlights are:
Sounds just like every meeting you’ve ever been in, right? Worse yet, it sounds just like every meeting you’ve ever run, correct?
As leaders, we could all learn a thing or two from Jobs. Our constituents might appreciate it if we did.
Filed under Leadership, Meetings
More Apple news for our family. Last night, Stretch’s iPhone 5 did something very odd:
Disaster Strikes!
I’d never seen anything like this. Neither had he. Nothing we tried reset the display for his phone (yes, A T and T help line, we DID try holding the “Home” button and the “Power” button for 10 seconds, yes we plugged it in, yes we are not morons, no, those things didn’t work). The display was simply fried.
We had to go to the place I don’t like to go: The Apple Store.
I am put off by what I perceive as the canned vibe of the place. I am put off by the energy of the joint. I am put off by the idea of a “Genius Bar” as I’ve encountered a few of these so-called Geniuses who are anything but.
I am just put off by the whole thing.
But, I can report, in the span of one short week, that Apple came through for us, again. We brought the phone in, explained the issue and geared up for the debate. We were ready to explain the phone was less than a year old and were ready to argue our case for a new one.
As it turns out, none of that was necessary. The “Genius” saw the problem, checked to be sure the phone wasn’t dropped in water, pulled the SIM card and said “Give me a minute and we’ll get you a new phone, free of charge.”
Music to our ears.
Though being without his phone caused Stretch a couple harrowing hours – he referred to being without his phone as being incarcerated – the ordeal was survived.
Thanks, Apple Store. Thanks two times.
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