Friday, April 25, 2014

Editor's Pick: Apple's Story: Passion, Patience and Pressure


Chris Maxcer
04/25/14 6:38 AM PT
Passion is cool and patience is good, but neither can produce innovative products again and again. Creative people need pressure to get things done -- pressure to pry their hands from their creation and let it loose in the world. When? When it's perfect enough. Few creative people ever feel they got it entirely right. Steve Jobs had the ability to leverage intense pressure. Does Tim Cook? [More...]

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