Steve Jobs Takes Six Month Leave Of Absence From Apple

I’m sure JasonB is crying right now :)

Anyways, if Jobs was such a visionary and “the greatest CEO” he would have built the company to grow and make the same decisions as if he were never gone.

Look at Pixar, I don’t see any crappy movies coming anytime soon. Well, Up might bomb but I doubt it.

(via Steve Jobs Takes Six Month Leave Of Absence From Apple)


Text of email from Steve Jobs to all Apple employees sent earlier today, following up on an earlier public statement he made last month about his health. COO Tim Cook takes over day to day operations of Apple:

Team,

I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my
health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.

In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.

I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.

I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.

Steve

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January 14

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  • JaredB
    Yeah, I think that even if his health were perfect, I think it's important for Apple to manage expectations in a way they haven't been able to so far (this is not an Apple-bashing comment - just general speculation).



    What I mean is that right now (this year), anything short of Steve showing up at Mac World (or another launch event) and introducing a revolutionary device on a fairly regular basis is seen as a disappointment. That is a bad thing, from the perspective of the shareholders especially, because it isn't sustainable, and it can rock the stock price if that's what everyone is expecting and it doesn't happen sometimes.



    In addition, attempting to sustain it would probably actually be a bad thing in the long run, because it may end up rushing certain processes that they should spend more time on, just for the sake of meeting an arbitrary deadline. And even if they can push themselves hard enough to achieve an unrealistic goal, that just becomes the bar they will have to beat again (probably within a year) and perpetuates the cycle by making it that much harder.



    They've got a lot of solid products right now; they don't really need to release new device at all within the next year. The only reason they would need to would be that they've trained people to expect it, but it might be time to wean them off that expectation.



    I guess no one really knows how much of the company's success until now was directly dependent on him personally, but I think it will be critical for Apple in to prove (over the next 3-5 years) that they can still continue function as a successful company while pulling back a bit from needing Steve to deliver one-more-thing shockers on a regular basis, and also minimizing the perception (to whatever degree they can at this point) that he plays a critical role in their success.
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