Apple after Steve Jobs: 10 hits and misses

Oct. 5 marks the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs' death. During that time, Apple has had some amazing successes and some spectacular failures.

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Steve Jobs' 7 Key Decisions

When Steve Jobs officially returned to Apple 15 years ago, it marked a moment of rebirth for the ailing company. Within eight months (September 17, 1997, to be exact), he assumed the mantle of Interim CEO (later abbreviated to "iCEO" for cuteness) and executed a stark and keen strategy to save Apple from oblivion.

Almost a year after his untimely passing, it's a good time to look back at seven key moves Jobs made to right the Apple ship during his early days as iCEO.

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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company. Along the way he helped to transform seven industries: personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, retail stores, and digital publishing. He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men was a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business.

The leadership lessons include:

Focus, Simplify, Take Responsibility End to End, When Behind, Leapfrog, Put Products Before Profits, Don’t Be a Slave To Focus Groups, Bend Reality, Impute, Push for Perfection, Tolerate Only “A” Players, Engage Face-to-Face, Know Both the Big Picture and the Details, Combine the Humanities with the Sciences, Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

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Video: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together

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