23 January 2011

creative tension

During Jobs' last absence, this person says, the creative tension disappeared, replaced by a play-it-safe ethos. The unavoidable fact is that lots of people can manage the company. Only Steve Jobs could have had the visionary spirit—and risk tolerance—to turn Apple into a mobile phone company.
Brad Stone and Peter Burrow, "Apple, With or Without Steve Jobs," BusinessWeek, 19 Jan 2011, www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_05/b4213006664366.htm.