I think it depends on the goal and nature of the company. For a company that seeks to create innovative, creative, and new products, someone will have to be the bad guy, and drop the hammer on certain ideas and/or features. However, he or she may not always make the right call, and you wind up with an AppleTV, Newton, etc. every now and then. If the company is a service provider of some sort, I'd say it should be run by the best practices for that particular field, and not any one person so much (a pipe dream, yes, but I still feel that way).
I think that, in the case of that particular article, Apple doesn't have just Steve Jobs to thank for its recent success. They have a good team, and their product designer, Jonny Ives is at the top of his game too - after all, I feel that alot of their recent success comes from the "sex appeal" of their products. I'm also not so sure that the iPad is "a triumph of technology and a completely new way of doing things," as the article suggests. It's really more of a large iPod Touch, with the option for a 3G modem.Warren "Tray" Torrance On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 13:08, Dustin Puryear <dpury...@puryear-it.com> wrote: Good article! http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/why-every-tech-firm-needs-a-tyrant-at-the-top-669583 The article discusses the issue of having too muchmanagement vs. a strong, central authority on top. It does mention Microsoft. Don't go on a rant. This is aboutmanagement philosphy more than a specific company. ;-) --- Puryear IT, LLC - Baton Rouge, LA - http://www.puryear-it.com/ Active Directory Integration : Web & Enterprise Single Sign-On Identity and Access Management : Linux/UNIX technologies Download our free ebook "Best Practices for Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
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