Tim Cook

Het is drie jaar gele­den sinds Tim Cook bij Apple het roer over­nam van Steve Jobs. NYT maak­te een uit­ge­breid portret van het soort lei­der dat Cook wil zijn.1Matt Rich­tel en Bri­an X. Chen­june, Tim Cook, Mak­ing Apple His Own, The New York Times, 15 juni 2014.

If Mr. Jobs was the heart and soul of the com­pa­ny, Mr. Cook seems to be try­ing to cast him­self as a dif­fer­ent sort of leader. His Twit­ter feed is a mash-up of Apple hoopla and cheer­ful pro­mo­tion of human rights and envi­ron­men­tal­ism. He wrote an opin­ion piece in The Wall Street Jour­nal in sup­port of pro­posed fed­er­al leg­is­la­tion pro­tect­ing gay, les­bian and trans­gen­der work­ers. […] Mr. Cook is amass­ing a cre­ative brain trust, accord­ing to Bono, the lead singer of the band U2, who befriend­ed Mr. Jobs and worked close­ly with him and Apple’s team on devel­op­ing a U2-brand­ed iPod, as well as on char­i­ta­ble work in Africa. Mr. Cook is not say­ing “I’m here to replace him,” said Bono, who is a man­ag­ing direc­tor and co-founder of the ven­ture cap­i­tal firm Ele­va­tion Part­ners. “He’s say­ing, ‘I’ll try to replace him with five peo­ple.’ It explains the acqui­si­tion of Beats.”

Ook het effect van zijn lei­der­schap en visie op de aan­deel­houd­ers van Apple komt ter sprake.

Investors have clam­ored for Apple wiz­ardry — a much-antic­i­pat­ed iWatch or iTV, per­haps. To these crit­ics, Mr. Cook is unin­spir­ing, his social views win­dow dress­ing, when what they want is mag­ic. […] If Apple makes an iWatch and sells 10 mil­lion units in the first year, it would add a mere 50 cents to its earn­ings per share, bare­ly a sin­gle per­cent­age point. […] “Most peo­ple would say, if you sell 10 mil­lion units of some­thing that would be incred­i­ble,” Mr. Sac­conaghi said. But not so with Apple. “There are very few things that could move the nee­dle,” he added.

Een bij­zon­der lang artikel, maar zek­er inter­es­sant om te lezen.

 

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