Charlie Rose

seesaw  05/02/2012 06:56 PM Report

This is a biased "interview" to give Apple and retard Jobs glowing reviews.

YNHow  04/17/2012 02:15 AM Report

great interview. the commentary (tape) of Mr. Lasseteer was really cool, to.

arrive2_net  03/27/2012 03:55 PM Report

When you consider the industries Jobs revolutionized it seems obvious that he was a bona fide business genius. It would be impossible to have achieved what he achieved without clashes, power struggles (like over the white board), and stepping on toes and egos. Exploiting people in China would be a very bad thing to do, but providing them with jobs may have been a very good thing.

Often in business or any other occupations it is tough to see in advance the scope of competition you will face, so it often looks like a good idea to get yourself into the most competitive situation before your competition outmaneuvers you.

Perhaps after he was ousted from Apple (by the people he himself had hired) Jobs learned to play hardball with those around him, and keeping his charisma intact became part of playing hardball. Perhaps the most striking thing about the rise of Jobs empire was how much worse it could have been ... creating the appearance that apart from the assertion and pressure any effective leader in his postion would have to use, Jobs seemed OK.

Bart Schuster

Arrive2.net

Gelles  03/25/2012 02:30 AM Report

Steve is dead and cannot write his opinion of his gifts and his performance. It is a fact that he helped Apple to become Number One in the contest to supply most with the best information, education, recreation, music, movies, and nifty personal connections to the cloud.

He did not as yet help, via influence after death, to provide us with a better alphabetic keyboard, a deliberate path to fully comprehend binary and related digital arithmetic and coding, algorithms, logical and arithemetic tricks and tools, the physical chemistry beneath our hands and eyes, or the rules we ought to learn to make a living and raise the children, etc.

The world is made of bozos - and almost every genius in the right job for his potential is, simultaneously, a bozo at being a man or lady in quest of the Holy Grail (the magical means by which all bozos ascend to the goodness of Jesus Christ).

When I think of Boole, Babbage and Lady Lovelace, I see our inspirational founders of the IT Revolution. Their moddern sons and daughters have been remembered in the new Bible of Modern Times -- which I sadly to say have not yet found and read. In it I believe Steve Jobs will merit a very small space in deed. Others will be its heroes and heroines.

You are invited to follow this search. I entered it into Google and believe my entry was a good start: "modern descendants of Boole, Babbage and Lovelace ?"

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 04:52 PM Report

So 'Tolerate only A-players—only want to work with A-players and prevent the Bozo Explosion. Do NOT get larded with B players'.

Only A players, no lard from the B players?

Perhaps you might watch "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" and see how these A players brought down the State of California and helped lead us to the mess we are still trying to get out of today.

Enron only hired A players and in this case the A stood for Amoral.

tabs  03/24/2012 12:39 PM Report

Mr Isaacson has discovered a Cottage Industry and that is the sanctification and deification of Steve Jobs AD. To this end Mr Isaacson and Mr Rose are busy building Alters and Shrines of worship. Thank you BUT no thank you. Mr Jobs was and always will remain a man who had to put his pants on one leg at a time just like everybody else.

The main disservice to humanity that Mr Issacson and his accomplice Mr Rose are doing is that by defying Mr Jobs into a God like status is that it puts his accomplishments out of reach for the rest of humanity. The corollary is that if only a man, the rest of you can reach and touch the stars as well.

The comment was, "That it is the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, that actually can change the world." It really does not matter what you think or say you can do. The only thing that counts is the quality of the work, can one actually do what one says one can do? Perhaps with the likes of a Jobs there was an awareness of the talents that lay within himself?

In the end Mr Jobs had really only one talent and that was his ability to make himself into "everyman." By being "everyman" he could recognize what products and features everybody would want in their products. Mr Jobs brought it down to the lowest common denominator..make it simple dummy, make it easy to use. Streamline Baby...

The real question about whether Jobs will be considered to be a Ford or Edison is if the systems he initiated in DESIGN and secondarily management at Apple will survive for long AD. Or was Apple merely the shooting star of a mans life?

Gelles  03/24/2012 08:30 AM Report

"think of what escapes you and it will instantly BE in front of you eyes. You'll KNOW and have so much, you'll wish you were dead."

It will never leave out a word or add letters that mis-spell what it is.

How about a VALET PARKING mimic-computer that not only parks the car but performs all tasks and chores that comprise how you make your living. You buy it once and thereafter you have no more to do than listen and talk to Charlie Rose?

Gelles  03/24/2012 08:18 AM Report

The future computer connecting us to the cloud of libraries full of facts and theories to help us know or build all our heart's desires, will be something like rose colored glasses and sound connecting our eyes and ears to the cloud without a mouse or keyboard but with some sort of navigational steering and entry power.

It won't be made by Apple and it won't by sucking blood from buyers or people who work for a living. It will be your artificial brain -- and you may have a closet full of them. After all they'll be made of atoms and molecules of stuff so abundant it's price will be nil. It will be Moore's law with a vengance that supplies your faintest wish: think of what escapes you and it will instantly in front of you eyes. You'll knwow and have so much, you'll wish you were dead.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 02:50 AM Report

Walter, here is your reality distortion field--you do NOT need to dumb down your book for those who need Harvard Business Review.

Those who are reading that publication aren't going to execute those principles.

Now get to work and give me 500 pages by Monday on how you don't have to exploit Chinese labor to make huge profits with cutting edge technology.

DO NOT tell me it cannot be done.

Your reality has now been distorted.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 02:43 AM Report

Charlie, where is the discussion about Foxconn, Mike Daisey and Steve Jobs?

What did Steve do--or not do--to those poor Chinese workers?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 02:39 AM Report

Alvy Ray Smith was a Co-Founder of Pixar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvy_Ray_Smith

Alvy tells a VERY interesting Pixar story.

Pixar was 70% owned by Steve and the employees owned the other 30%. Steve kept investing his own money (as John Lasseter told us during his interview) so over a period of four to five years Steve took ALL the ownership of Pixar.

The employees were in love with Steve--with their big doe eyes according to Alvy (and as we heard from Lasseter)--so they didn't seem to mind.

The story is that Steve was "a total street bully" and got into a fight with Alvy. There was screaming at each other, with Steve insulting Alvy’s accent and then something broke for Alvy.

Alvy wrote on the white board--only Steve got to write on the white board--and Steve stormed out of the room.

STEVE JOBS on PBS at 31:56: http://video.pbs.org/video/2163706349/#

So did Steve find a way to take Pixar away from his employees (remember the plot against Paul Allen by Gates and Ballmer, how about those twins and FaceBook)? Were the employees lucky to give up their shares in order to have a job and work for Steve?

Walter, don't forget this part for the Harvard Business Review. Business leaders need to know how to get ownership back from their employees.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/24/2012 02:28 AM Report

Charlie, shall I continue to pray to Steve for a miracle to begin the beatification process and get him his title "Blessed Steve Jobs"?

Hold on a minute! Steve Jobs was a tyrant? Impossible!

Apparently it is true: http://video.pbs.org/video/2163706349/#

Everyone in Steve Jobs' life went through three phases: seduced, ignored or scourged. All depended on whether Steve needed you or not. (34:09)

“Steve ultimately betrayed everyone. “ (34:34)

The Harvard Business Review probably takes that as a business given, right Walter?

anne4444  03/23/2012 04:29 PM Report

Here are 12 dimensions in the universe:3 physical dimensions, 3 non-physical dimensions, time, universe expansion, possibility, parallel dimension, merging/separation and duplication.

The highest physical l being in our universe is a nine dimensional intelligent being. After that, we can only see non-physical spiritual beings.

The 48 dimensional intelligent beings are purely high vibrating frequency of female energy filled with information; they have no form, no face and no gender as we defined, but they can transform themselves into anything. They created us and our universe.

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New understanding of Buddhism’s eight senses or eight consciousnesses:

5 senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch and smell by eye, ear, tongue, skin and nose.

6 sense: intuition and compassion by the invisible soul inside our body

7 sense: invisible and immortal “data cable” transferring information between 6 sense and 8 sense during sleeping.

8 sense: our united non-separable soul kept together within mother earth. Invisible and immortal.

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When we look into the sky, we are all humble by the creation.

There are total 48 dimensions in our universe. 36 dimensions are inaccessible to us. Our souls can access 12 dimensions (12 strand soul DNA) while this material world with plant earth limits us to only 3 dimensions with Double Helix DNA.

Knowledge is limitless, so does intelligent being.

Our soul has no difference; we are united as one. Our differences in body, senses, sex, intelligence, power and wealth, is only the trap into darkness which prevent us to unite our other half soul into the lightness.

Gelles  03/23/2012 06:59 AM Report

Steve Jobs should have campaigned for making his products in the nations where they are sold -- or otherwise creating demand where they are supplied. Otherwise, he will build a rich company with no customers.

Henry Ford should have left a company behind that built cars soft enough to be safe for your children to drive.

Edison and Tesla should have left companies behind that created the solar wind hyhdrogen oxygen economies behind with unlimited electric power.

Wal-Mart ought to have never been started.

My postine today on products not made by Apple follows:

Dear Ricardo and Optimistic Friend,

What is missing in discussions of jobs, trade and sound money, is the coming era of abundance, based on revolutionary technology in info-tech, biotech and nano-tech.

Review Peter Diamondis "Abundance" in book form and on video. Also make common cause with Singularity University and Keynesian solutions to deamnd and supply based on full employment of all consumers as workers -- supported by robots and money created on purpose.

None of us here in these comments want to lose the best values of East and West that can be reduced to THE GOLDEN RULE.

Beware of totalitasrians, Mandarin-like economists and lawyers, and people who believe MONEY is short when MONEY is a function the the valude of THINGS THAT MONEY CAN BUY.

There is magic in money saved until it can be matched to output for sale.

While it is saved, if the global system protects it from

inflation, like we do for TIPS bonds, it will motivate the best and the brightest and the bozos too, to create what we need as well as the money to buy it.

If we allow demand and prosperity to evaporate so that FDR's Second Bill of Rights, and the human rights we know are the essence of liberty, are destroyed by war or political manias, the era of Abundance will default to abundant WMD's and blood and guts to be spilled because we did not kill the replica's of 20th Century tyrants as soon as they showed their true colors in the 21st.

Too many of the Good Guys around fail to unite enough to influence popular opinion. Each GG is often selling books and ideas to glorify his own name and not make common cause with people in search of solutions made possible in our time that were impossible before we achieved exponential growth in knowledge to create the chance we have for peace over the decades immediately ahead.

http://outputbasedmoney.info/.crs.htm

vongleichent  03/23/2012 05:28 AM Report

Steve Jobs speech at Standford University was brilliant.

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Max83  03/23/2012 03:52 AM Report

This is what Billy Corgan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Corgan has to say about the bozo explosion, video link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpuH88kbDM0

topazgirl  03/23/2012 03:07 AM Report

REMant: Of course they will experience similar fates; as well they should... That is the point! Ideas, innovation, and vision lead to the next step; then more ideas, new innovations... and so on, and so on... New tech builds upon the old! If not for the genius of radio, where would we be? But that is not the end of it...

There will be few like Steve Jobs, but the fact remains, there WILL be more Steve Jobs. And they will probably relate their successes down the the road to his (and others) inspirations.

The buckboard brought us heated bucket seats, today. The wheel is moving rovers and cameras on Mars... and so it goes...

Max83  03/23/2012 01:31 AM Report

Wow, this is a deep and powerful interview! Now Mr. Isaacson is an authentic and legitimate member of the Superclass in my opinion.

I have never heard the terms ''Reality distortion field'' and ''bozo explosion'' before, but I know they are realities from my own personal experience.

The bozo explosion is probably the single most dangerous threat to Humanity at this time hahahaha

I had always used the term Morphogenetic Field Breaker before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenetic_field when referring to new innovative and reality changing people, concepts and inventions but I am going to use the Reality distortion field term from now on, because it is more accurate and easier to understand for others.

From Steve Job's wikipedia page:

''In a 2011 interview with biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs revealed at one point he met with U.S. President Barack Obama, complained of the nation's shortage of software engineers, and told Mr. Obama that he was "headed for a one-term presidency." Jobs proposed that any foreign student who got an engineering degree at a U.S. university should automatically be offered a green card. After the meeting, Jobs commented, "The president is very smart, but he kept explaining to us reasons why things can't get done.... It infuriates me.''

K.I.S.S.(Keep it simple stupid) and Quality is what it is all about, and Steve Jobs knew that.

I hope you are doing well on the Other Side Steve.

REMant  03/22/2012 12:26 PM Report

Unless something has recently changed, the only ppl who read HBR are those who read Architectural Digest. But whatever, we've certainly heard enough on this topic. Jobs has been taken apart by nearly everyone else, and the speech, which he didn't write, as well. And he was certainly wrong about challenging M$ on O/S. What can Rose possibly be thinking? Does he have stock in the co? Apple, Google, Facebook, etc are tho, I'm afraid, our "Radio" and likely will suffer a similar fate in the not too distant future.