Steve Jobs believed that arguments and disagreements within a company were necessary for innovation. He held weekly 3-hour meetings with Apple division heads to discuss everything and help solve issues. Jobs also set up mailing lists for each project to keep tabs on discussions and decisions happening within teams. This reduced meeting time and improved decision quality by sharing different perspectives. Jobs was passionate about extracting ideas from his smart employees and refining them into life-changing products.

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3. A childhood experience teaches
Steve that arguments, debates and
disagreements are necessary.
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4. “Through an incredibly talented group
of people bumping up against each
other…having arguments, having
fights…and working together, they
polish each other, they polish their
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6. Steve met with Apple division heads once a week in a 3-hour meeting where
they would discuss everything.
He helps people solve their issues and let them figure out the rest.
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7. “If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have
to let them make a lot of decisions. You have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy.”
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9. Steve was passionate about understanding
the thought processes within his company.
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10. He set up a mailing list for every project, to keep
a pulse on the disagreements, arguments and
decisions happening within each team.
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11. The mailing list was reduce time spent in
meetings, increased quality of decisions, as a
result of the various kinds of “intellectual
content” that was shared within the company.
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12. “…[the mailing list is]… a window for
management to look at the process of this
organism we call our company… in a way that
has never before been possible.”
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14. Steve was passionate about pushing
everyone to their fullest potential.
He recognized that he already had smart
people in his team, all brimming with ideas.
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15. Steve was a master at extracting those
ideas and polishing them until they were
the life-changing products we use today.
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