“Steve Jobs, Apple icon and visionary, resigned yesterday as Apple CEO after returning the company he co-founded to prominence after Apple acquired NeXT in 1996,” Josh Rosenthall reports for Edible Apple. “Apple’s new CEO will be former COO Tim Cook who over the past few months has already been handling the day to day CEO duties at Apple while Jobs tended to his medical issues. Though officially stepping down from the CEO role, Jobs will reportedly remain actively involved with the company via his new role as company chairman.”
Rosenthall reports, “Interestingly, Jobs’ entire perspective on his resignation, the build-up to it and the resulting fall out will be included in Walter Isaacson’s upcoming biography on the man who has become synonymous with Apple.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Pre-order for US$16.99 via Apple’s iBookstore, expected release date Nov. 21, 2011: Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
Is it at all possible that Steve had planned the book to come out right after he closes the biggest, most important chapter of his career (and life)? I mean, we know how Steve carefully plans product development cycles years ahead, so it wouldn’t be all that surprising to believe that this resignation was also carefully timed, as was the book release.
I always enjoy reading your posts and I agree with you.
There is definatly a good possibility that Steve planned these events.
The man has an incredible Balance.
He also has a great pair of New Balance!
Steve jobs always sees the end before he starts.
A true Zen master.
He knew where the puck was going.
Is going…
I hope my kids buy me the book for Christmas.
…perhaps Harriet will?
Ray,
Bill Gates paid you enough – buy your own copy.
Walt Disney would have loved Steve Jobs, seeing himself in His Steveness. This book sounds dynamite and just like an Apple product will probably sell millions.
Just pre-ordered on iBooks. Can’t wait.