What Steve Jobs thinks about management

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American entrepreneur (1955 to 2011); co-founded Apple in 1976 and led it again from 1997 to 2011; ran Pixar from 1986 to 2006.

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1. 20 Apr 1995

   Our readingOne thing a leader can individually contribute is instilling in the organization the goal of having only A players.

   Their wordsI always considered part of my job was to keep the quality level of people in the organizations I work with very high. That's what I consider one of the few things I actually can contribute individually--to to really try to instill in the organization the goal of only having 'A' players.

   ↗Steve Jobs oral history interview with Daniel Morrow (Smithsonian, 20 April 1995): excerptsweb.archive.org 4th of 11 in this piece