However, Jobs was kicked out of Apple by Sculley two years later and he watched him bring the company to naught during his tenure. After all, he dropped out of college after one semester! Few people know that Steve Jobs was never CEO of Apple in his first run there: the company was run by older executives and investors, and Steve Jobs actually helped them hire an experienced, 'well-rounded' CEO in 1983, John Sculley.
Unlike most tech companies founders, he had neither any engineering experience nor any business training. Steve Jobs was not your typical Silicon Valley CEO. The goal of this article is to explore that aspect of Steve Jobs in greater detail, and paint a broader and more accurate picture of what kind of manager he was. 21 Yet, at the time of his passing, Jobs also had an outstanding 97% approval among Apple employees according to Glassdoor. He may be as troubled and unsocialized (and, too, as charismatic) a figure in American business life as anyone since Howard Hughes". Some twenty years later, Michael Wolff's description of Jobs was little different: "There's the mercurialness the tantrums the hours-long, dictator-like speeches the famous, desperate, and transparent hogging of credit and always the charismatic-leader complex, through which he has been able to seduce and, subsequently, abandon so many of the people he's worked with. Jobs himself would frequently cry after fights with fellow executives". He created resentment among employees by turning some into stars and insulting others, often reducing them to tears. Senior management had to endure his temper tantrums.
Steve Jobs had the reputation of a hot-tempered manager throughout his life.Īs early as 1987, the New York Times wrote: "by the early 80's, Mr.
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