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A little-Motorola News comes in the form of changes in list B, & N for the biography of Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs). Originally scheduled for March 2012, the book will be available on 21 November 2011, just in time for Thanksgiving.
Author Walter Isaacson, the book features interviews with Senor jobs, as well as a full reckoning of his personal life. Don't expect any bombshells. This should be a calm, open look at the man who single-handedly killed the PC.
Based on more than 40 interviews with jobs, more than two years, as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors and colleagues, this book describes the life of a roller coaster and a searingly intense personality whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive Revolution six sectors of the creative entrepreneur: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, Tablet PCs and digital publishing. This is a book about innovation. At a time when America is looking for ways to maintain its innovative edge and when societies around the world are trying to develop the economy in the digital age, employment stands as the ultimate icon of ingenuity and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century to connect creativity with technology, so he built where LEAPS of the imagination combined with remarkable feats of engineering company. Although jobs is cooperating with this book, he has no control over what was written, nor even read it before it was published. He had nothing to leave and instead encourage people he knew to say honestly even enemies, former friends and colleagues he once fired or die. "I made a lot of things, I'm not proud of, such as obtaining my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and I that," he says. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that should not be allowed out. Work speaks frankly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed. In addition to his friends, enemies and colleagues view the unvarnished passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry and coercion to control, form, his approach to business and innovative products that resulted. He was not the man, model boss or tidily packaged for emulation. Is driven by demons, he can manipulate those around him the anger and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple hardware and software, usually as part of the integrated system. His story is so instructive and cautionary lessons on innovation, character, leadership and values.
via 9to5mac
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