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Although people are always talking about personal heroism, one has and does not, and does not stop the pace of progress of the times, just to say the question of faster or slower.

Andy has the most say in this, and his presence has changed a lot, yet it has only changed the fate of a small part of him, but it has not changed the world, let alone this era.

Don't think of Jobs as a god, don't think of him as a demon. Recognize those who deserve it, criticize those who deserve it. Jobs is a great, great genius, but at the same time a terrible character.

In the face of this genius that has transformed the world's scientific and technological processes over the past decades, no one has missed their reverence. Blessings are due when he is seriously ill. But besides blessing, in the light, he also has a number of flaws.

Ever since Jobs returned to Apple after surgery, Andy found that illness had not deprived him of his gift, nor had it taken away his arrogance.

Jobs was a man who would never respect anyone else because he thought he was dividing his sphere of influence because he publicly accused Google on his first day back at Apple, “We didn't go into the search market, but Google went into the mobile market. There is no doubt that they want to destroy love madness. ”

Angry Google's current CEO, Larry Page, outraged Jobs “history tampering.”

A lot of people think Jobs rewrote the cell phone industry, and in fact, Google acquired Android as early as 2005, and R&D has started since then. Google is not too late compared to the crazy phone release in 2007. Besides, it was no secret that Google CEO Schmidt was also a member of the Apple Board at the time.

In Jobs' eyes, apples have no flaws, and if you criticize apples, you don't appreciate the beauty of apples. Andy, who put forward the big screen concept, was the one who Jobs didn't know how to appreciate the beauty of Apple.

“You don't know anything!” Jobs completely pissed him off with his arrogant, despised mouth on the board.

“Yes, just as I don't understand the serious flaws in the spontaneous combustion of crazy phones, but the company doesn't say anything, which leads to the stock falling, I don't understand that you've been trying to hide your health, which leads to a sharp BO move every time you take a break. So, as the biggest individual shareholder of Apple, can you give me an answer and let me understand! ”

This was Andy's counterattack at the time, with the two hands facing each other, which also left Jobs unhappy in the first round of the board after his return, and Andy even shuddered in disquiet, and Jobs, who looked terribly ugly, said the meeting was over and cut off the video signal directly.

Since then, the two of them have gone completely opposite each other again. Andy even heard that Jobs wanted it. Andy proposed the board. However, he didn't want to see Jobs too strong and nobody else on the other board as his opponent, but he was happy with Andy's existence. He didn't want to kick Andy out of the board at all, which also made Jobs angry, helpless, and even exposed the words' luring wolves into the room '.

Originally thinking about leaving the Apple Board of Directors, getting a good grip on Apple's Andy, also changed the main thing, decided to continue to sit on the Apple Board of Directors, nothing else, just to clog the hateful guy, wait until he decides to leave, give him a hard hand, let Jobs pay the price for his arrogance!

Well, Andy was so careful, he'd stick a knife in the apple with or without Jobs...

Thinking about it, Andy took out his phone and dialed out.

“Hello, Schmidt, huh... Was this a surprise? ”

The call was made to National Network Search Giant Google CEO Schmidt, and given the current competition between Apple and Google in a number of areas, including the computer operating system market and the rapidly growing smartphone market, the two directors were afraid to end up, and Jobs would never let Schmidt remain on the Apple board.

Schmidt joined the Apple Board in 2006, but has not recently participated in the Apple Board's discussions on Mad Phone products and has opted to take a seat. Unfortunately, with the unveiling of Google's Android and the latest Chrome OS program, Google is increasingly involved in Apple's core business areas, and Schmidt is doing fewer and fewer things on the Apple Board because of potential conflicts of interest, he will have to withdraw from more meetings without hesitation.

In this way, it would be better to opt out of Apple's board of directors directly, which would also help it to partially review the relationship through the regulator.

“Oh, Andy, you called just in time, and you should have heard the wind... At the board meeting early next month, I'm officially withdrawing from Apple. ”

Schmidt's laughter came from the phone, and it didn't bother him. Instead, Andy frowned slightly and said, "It's a shame. Has Jobs looked for you? ”

“Oh, he talked to me, and it's normal, actually, that the full competition between Google and Apple has begun, and it's not really appropriate for me to be on the Apple Board of Directors anymore, and this regulator survey, oh, I think Jobs himself proposed it, just to get rid of us, but you don't have to worry about the survey, after all, you're not a member of Google's board.

So I talked to the other board members and decided to let you take over my board functions before I left, and I don't think you'd refuse, would you? Oh... ”

“Ha ha. Thank you, of course I won't refuse.” Hearing each other's words, Andy's eyes were brighter and brighter, and his mouth was flashing, and he laughed, and it seemed that a lot of people who didn't want Jobs to get over it, were really, really marginalized directors, and the biggest boost to being a director of the compensation committee this time was undoubtedly thanks to that argument between Andy and Jobs.

It can be said that most people on the board don't like dictatorship, decentralized Jobs, and if he hadn't been able to make more money for Apple, people would have chosen to pinch their noses and put up with him in front of the interests, and if one day it was determined that he couldn't create value for Apple, Jobs would have been ruthlessly swept out, just like before.

In fact, Jobs knows this very well, and that's what Andy admires about him as an opponent. Jobs has irreplaceable utilisation values that he can leverage to his advantage.

“ No one wants to see him unscrupulous, someone has to come forward and question him, restrain him, he understands that he is not the king of Apple, not everything will be up to him, everyone looks after you, you are so young and so successful, more successful than all of us, which is enough to suppress his arrogance! ”

Andy's mouth was full of laughter, but the tone of voice was a little gratifying: "Thank you for your trust and support. Rest assured, Apple did not have an actual controller before and will not have one in the future. All that counts is the board, Jobs, the professional manager, must be accountable to the board and shareholders! “

“Ha ha, that's right, then I'll see you on the board. ”

“Okay, I'll see you in two days, and I'll buy you a drink... ”

After hanging up the phone, Andy's smile dissipated and turned into a desolate look, all old foxes, but Andy didn't mind being used as a gun by these old foxes, anyway, he wasn't prepared to stay on the Apple board all the time, Jobs such a job, he was very interested, only if he talked to the master, Andy would learn and grow better.

Although Andy had previously claimed that Jobs was a professional manager, that was just demeaning, and Jobs was indeed one of the great innovators that Andy had to admit whether he liked it or not.

In technology products, we all want to make updates, and we can't count on something that everyone is familiar with, or the industry is familiar with, to change the source of constant profit. That's why when Jobs died, a lot of people said the apple was dead, including the whole of Wall Street.

And most importantly, Apple's success depends too much on an individual, not just his ability to work, but also his philosophy, and once in the hands of a professional manager, all those precious things will be lost.

Certainly someone will be overwhelmed by this view. After all, after Jobs' death, Apple was not only unfinished, but also strong year after year, with a market value of hundreds of billions...

That's right, because it's too natural, because someone hit such a good bottom, and then if you think only about the last few years, it must be that the professional manager's profitability outweighs the entrepreneur's profitability, the professional manager's strengths, his training, it's all to increase income.

But it's not good for professional managers to guide companies to stay innovated and strategically plan for the future. You know, to be a century-old business, you can't just look at short-term earnings, unlimited potential for extraction, short-term profits, and losing the whole future!