Former Apple CEO John Sculley says that made Steve Jobs' ability to listen made him 'brilliant.' (via CNBCMakeIt)
Sculley, who served as Apple's CEO for a decade from 1983 to 1993, toldthat ability did not come naturally to Jobs. Rather, it took 12 years and a contentious departure from Apple to hone it.
Jobs famously resigned from Apple in 1985, aged 27, following a clash with Sculley and Apple board members over the strategic direction of the company. In the 12 years that followed, Jobs founded another computer software company, NeXT, before returning to Apple in 1997.When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 following the purchase of NeXT, he was a "different person," said Sculley, who previously ledJobs 1.0 was characterized by unwavering ambition, but Jobs 2.0 was more mature and had a greater willingness to listen to others, Sculley said.
"Steve was brilliant in terms of seeing where the world would be 20 years in the future. He was so charismatic that he convinced himself, as much as he convinced other people, that he was always right," Sculley said of Jobs 1.0. "But young Steve Jobs was not as good at listening as the Steve Jobs that came back years later," he continued, noting that it opened him up to new ways of thinking.American businessman Steve Jobs , Chairman of Apple Computers, and John Sculley, Apple's president, pose with the new Macintosh personal computer, New York City.In the years that followed Jobs' return to Apple, he was considered largely responsible for reviving the business from the edge of bankruptcy.
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