STEVE JOBS- “RELYING ON THE COLLECTIVE BRILLIANCE OF THE PEOPLE WHO SURROUND YOU!” – A RAINBOW OF ROLE MODELS {WEDNESDAY SERIES}
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STEVE JOBS- “RELYING ON THE COLLECTIVE BRILLIANCE OF THE PEOPLE WHO SURROUND HIM” A RAINBOW OF ROLE MODELS {WEDNESDAY SERIES}
STYRON’S INTRODUCTION – WEDNESDAY’S ROLE MODEL – STEVE JOBS
Steve Jobs co-created a great company. Today, I celebrate his learning to listen and trust those he surrounds himself with. The same lesson that led to Michael Jordan’s SIX CHAMPIONSHIPS!
The importance of listening to and trusting the people who surround you.
Steve Jobs debated the best ideas before moving forward with a solution.
When you think about the best leadership skills and traits to emulate for yourself–like those of Steve Jobs and other iconic founders–which comes to mind? Confidence? Vision? Strategy? For Jobs, it relied on the collective brilliance of the people surrounding him.
Before his passing, Jobs was interviewed by Fortune senior editor Betsy Morris while on vacation, sharing with her the keys to Apple’s success. Jobs told Morris:
So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know, just explore things.
Notice Steve Jobs didn’t say so when my good idea came. He knew the success of Apple largely depended on the success of the people working with him. In startups and entrepreneurial spaces, it is a common notion that workers’ ideas can lead to immense innovation and growth for an organization. That is if you allow them the freedom to exercise their brains fully.
As Jobs improved his leadership skills in his second stint with Apple, he clearly understood his place in the information age to produce the Apple products we can’t live without eventually. Case in point, Jobs famously quipped,
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.
Best ideas should be challenged and debated.
Steve Jobs taught leaders an important lesson: to recognize that each team member plays a pivotal role in the business’s overarching success.
This means that leaders must put themselves in the precarious position of letting anybody in the organization challenge their ideas. This should be a cultural expectation as the pathway to growth faster.
Start by giving and granting permission for smart people to push back if need be. Steve Jobs was a passionate visionary who had strong opinions, but that didn’t mean he was always right. He moved his ideas around and allowed the debate to take place.
These productive and healthy disagreements are necessary for people in collaborative circles to say what needs to be said in real-time with respect and a positive tone and to listen for understanding when others provide feedback.
When done right, you create a culture of radical transparency that must be fiercely guarded against left-field ideas or personal agendas that don’t serve the team, culture, or mission.
Ensure accountability
You do this through accountability by demanding that respectful debates live in the reality of data and facts to support any recommendations to move the best idea forward. More importantly, put people first and listen for understanding versus seeking a solution, which should be the last step in exploring different aspects of a new business idea. Since most intelligent, savvy, and creative technologists and engineers in startups are entrepreneurial-minded and natural problem solvers, before coming up with a solution, seek first to understand, seek to align, and then work together to solve the problem. This would have been the Steve Jobs way.
Jobs told Morris, “Nobody had ever thought about putting operating systems as sophisticated as OS X inside a phone, so that was a real question. We had a big debate inside the company about whether we could do that. And that was one where I had to referee it and say, ‘We’re going to do it. Let’s try.’ The smartest software guys said they could do it, so let’s give them a shot. And they did.”
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