Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Author: Steve Jobs
Language: ingliz tilida
Writing: Lotin yozuvida
Publisher: Toshkent
Year: 2005
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING
BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND
ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE
BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs
conducted over two years—as well as interviews with
more than a hundred family members, friends,
adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter
Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster
life and searingly intense personality of a creative
entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and
ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal
computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet
computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain
its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of
inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that
the best way to create value in the twenty-first century
was to connect creativity with technology. He built a
company where leaps of the imagination were
combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he
asked for no control over what was written nor even the
right to read it before it was published. He put nothing
offlimits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak
honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally
so, about the people he worked with and competed
against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an
unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism,
obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control
that shaped his approach to business and the
innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around
him to fury and despair. But his personality and
products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware
and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated
system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with
lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and
values.