I just read this “In 2008, a CNN iReporter (the amateur arm of user-generated content for the U.S.-based news service) reported incorrectly that Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack. The report knocked the Apple stock from $105.27 to $95.41 in just a short moment, leaving everyone reeling” in the book trust agents.
This got me thinking of leaders and leadership. I’ve also read the book from good to great, which among other things says that great leaders contemplates a lot before they choose their successor, and does it with the companys’ best at heart. Meaning that they care for the company they work for and the people there and not only their own success and careers, which is one of the things that make them great.
This have always sounded very good and logic in my head, but what will happened when Steve Jobs is going to choose his successor, if he wull be the one who does it that is. If he is a great leader, can he actually convince everyone that the person he chooses will be able to “fill his shoes”? What do we really know about Steve Jobs, everyone know that he is the CEO of Apple, but what do we really know about him as a leader? Would we trust the person that he choose to replace him?
I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man! – Kanye West lyric
The lyrics for Kanye West fits pretty well here, for many, Steve Jobs is Apple. But what does that mean? If we do trust him as a leader, does that mean that he will choose a great successor. Do we actually believe that he is great enough to do this? Is there any possibility that his choice wont have an impact on the apple stock? Or will his departure mean the end for Apple as we know it today?
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