“With the resignation of Steve Jobs, Apple’s ailing chief executive, his successor and collaborator of many years, Tim Cook, will be tested like never before,” Miguel Helft writes for Fortune.
“Cook, who was Apple’s chief operating officer, has been running day-to-day operations since January, when Jobs announced that he was taking a medical leave,” Helft reports. “And twice before, Cook had taken the reins from Jobs, as Apple’s founder stepped aside to focus on his health.”
Helft reports, “Like Jobs, Cook is a relentless executive and exacting boss, a perfectionist who obsesses over minute details. But the similarities between the two men end there. While Jobs is a charismatic leader known for outbursts of temper, Cook, who was raised in a small town in Alabama, is soft-spoken, reserved and intensely private. And as Jobs used his creative genius and vision to conceive and design blockbuster products like the iMac, iPhone and iPad, Cook’s considerable operational skills were focused on making sure that Apple could build millions of those products and deliver them to every corner of the world to meet customers’ seemingly insatiable demand.”
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