Fortune magazine has released its list of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” and Apple CEO Tim Cook is on the list.
Fortune writes, “Since replacing the legendary Steve Jobs, Cook has led the iBehemoth to even greater financial success. Along the way he’s changed the culture of the company—and found his public voice as a leader.”
“Tim Cook assumed he was ready for the harsh glare that shines on Apple’s CEO,” Adam Lashinsky writes for Fortune. “What Cook found out instead is that there is no preparation for the scrutiny that comes with succeeding a legend. ‘I have thick skin,’ he says, ‘but it got thicker. What I learned after Steve passed away, what I had known only at a theoretical level, an academic level maybe, was that he was an incredible heat shield for us, his executive team. None of us probably appreciated that enough because it’s not something we were fixated on. We were fixated on our products and running the business. But he really took any kind of spears that were thrown. He took the praise as well. But to be honest, the intensity was more than I would ever have expected.'”
Tins more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Well deserved, of course.
But I keep reading here that no one likes this guy, he’s doing a terrible job, he’s gotta go.
And you MDN is always among the critics, so your take is nonsense.
Tim Cook for President of the United States of America. Those other challengers are losers.
I haven’t met a homosexual yet that didn’t have deep-seated anger management and false self-esteem issues, and so far you two, SH1 and RW prove that out.
Reality is Cook is blowing this opportunity to build on Jobs’ legacy. Look at the loss in value of the company during a bull market, the pathetic performance of iWatch and the even more pathetic cluster duck of product releases, and I don’t see how Cook is worthy of praise.
His sick devotion to pushing his homosexuality more than he pushes Apple, and his continual preaching of other Leftist crap is why the Company is slowly being set up to fail (the iCar should be the nail in the coffin). And in fact it’s probably the only reason he made the list.
But what takes the cake for me even more than that is the guy talking out the side of his mouth about our data privacy., hiding behind a ‘country’s people’ deciding how much they ant their data protected. I’d bet very thin nickel and dime I have that even a brainwashed Chinese ‘citizen’ would love to have their data protected from government intrusion- but that is t the case, is it….
Bla blah blah, all you leftist guys do is spew hate.
I’m sure there are homosexuals as capable of being a great as Washington, Lincoln, and Eisenhower were, but we already one currently screwing up that notion – why you’d think trying another is a good idea is beyond me.
on spewing hate…
Sooooo sorry we can’t emulate the love and tolerance that veritably OOZES out of every sentence of your post.
Leftists spew hate? How would you categorize the speech of all the conservatives that literally want gay people to die, simply for being gay? What about all the holy wars started by Christians? I guess that’s all sunshine and rainbows.
This is some weak sauce.
Silverhawk1, why you would you want Tim Cook to step down to that level is beyond me, but you are right about the other challengers but put it in perspective. Your country is getting the leadership that is appropriate for it.
Now there are a few articles along this lines but it looks to me that it’s not just that Tim Cook made the list of “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” but he’s in the top 5 of the list. Certainly there are those that can not only recognize great leadership but also notice that one component of great leadership comes from the feedback of the people. To this I’d like to point out and thank Jay Morrison, a long time poster at MDN who has been consistent with a singular message: “Tim Cook is a poor excuse for a leader” as illustrated by his recent post of Thursday, March 24, 2016 – 12:35 pm:
“While this story is over the top and easily rejected because it’s so extreme, the underlying truth that supports it can’t be denied. The problem is not the analysis of the details but the certainty that Tim Cook is a poor excuse for a leader, he’s completely incapable of any sort of innovation (the watch isn’t innovative, it’s just a clunky competitor to all kinds of wrist wear technology. That’s not innovation, that’s just joining the trend instead of leading trends like used to characterize the once great company. Until Tim Cook is gone, the predictions of this article will be reality soon if not today.””
Certainly anyone reading this constant unswerving drivel will realize that trolls can make an important component of leadership, especially when they are followed up by the kind of leadership that Jay Morrison demonstrates in his statement from Sept 21 2014:
““You will be pleased to know that I’m about done with saying what I say on this board – it’s clearly been therapy for me and I’m very close to not needing it any more – I’ve reached the realm of apathy.”
Jay Morrison”
That’s been over a year and half ago, and he’s still here, whining. That’s great leadership no doubt in his deluded eyes.
So thanks Jay, keep digging that pit and we’ll keep on laughing.
At you of course.
Nicely done, Road Warrior.
Jay — before breakining your promise (again) and starting any pathetic therapy or whining, please list your wonderful accomplishments in building and running businesses… so we’ll know the excellent background of knowledge your coming from in your critique.
Jay and handsomeshitty have been trolling here for too long. My only anger issue is with trolls taking up too many 1-0. Oh, my wife and kids think you’re just a little cutie pie handsomeahifty. Hey RW, does that make us brothers-in-law or something?
You might be right RW about Tim going to a lesser position by becoming President of the USA. Oh Lord, this country needs help to save us from the democrats and republicans. Amen.
Thanks for bringing some perspective into handsomesmutty, I do find trolls tasty but they are kind of rich so I pretty well stick to Jay, though when it comes to trolls Zune Thang was the funniest one I had ever seen.
Gee I don’t know if we are brothers in law, what is your wife a left handed homosexual too?
I hope you take that one in the tongue and cheek humor it was intended.
I will take a gander through the quagmire and look for some insightful tidbits.
“Reality is Cook is blowing this opportunity to build on Jobs’ legacy.”
Now that to me is a fair statement, ah and a very subjective one. Certainly there are some hardware and software items at Apple that could be better, but then again Steve Jobs released some items that left folks less than impressed. The hockey puck comes to mind. On the other hand, Apple is still (one of) the world’s most valuable country and some of their products are exciting, Swift and the watch have a lot of potential. I think overall Tim hasn’t driven the company into the ground and that the spirit of Steve Jobs is alive and well. I think that’s part of the Fortune’s assessment.
The rest of his post, is a bit of drivel. Frankly I think if you want to look at the hate spewing look towards those who torture and hold people indefinitely without providing any sort of justice or humane treatment, not to those who point out that such treatment is not a part of a modern day civilized society, but again that’s just my opinion.
Have a safe an happy Easter.
Everyone.
“look towards those who torture and hold people indefinitely without providing any sort of justice or humane treatment”
Or to those who knowingly kill hundreds of thousands of Americans EVERY YEAR… America’s own ultra-rich and upper management. The tobacco industry is only one example in a sickening litany that makes the total efforts of all terrorists look like the fumblings of a bunch of Sunday-schoolers on a picnic.
I think the difference is that no one is physically forcing anyone to smoke though certainly laws and availability has an influence on that. To this point I think Bhutan has one of the toughest Tobacco Control Acts.
There is even a page about it on wiki, that states that the act “regulates tobacco and tobacco products, banning the cultivation, harvesting, production, and sale of tobacco and tobacco products in Bhutan. The act also mandates that the government of Bhutan provide counseling and treatment to facilitate tobacco cessation.”
“The consumption of tobacco is not altogether prohibited in Bhutan, though it is largely banned in places of public accommodation”
Terrorism unlike disease, accidental or self inflicted deaths is induced by a third party, be it a beheading or a water boarding session. Usually that third party is very intolerant and may be indicative of deep-seated anger management and false self-esteem issues.
Good point though, thank Sean.
True. And I don’t want to seem like I’m saying, “Poor completely helpless smoking victims.” Ultimately, smoking is a person’s choice.
BUT that choice is taken in an atmosphere of huge social pressure (many kids somehow still think death-sticks are cool and many working guys think they’re ‘manly’). The massive industry that PROMOTES all that marketing bullshit and lies bears a lot of responsibility.
Imagine if you or I, with our small business, put out a product that, it was discovered, took decades off the life of one out of two people. We’d be in jail SO fast.
AND there are many other products where choice is not involved at all… where companies knowingly fake results and put out a product they know is toxic or unsafe in other ways, or where they are simply careless and then do nothing. Why that is not conspiracy to commit mass murder, I do not understand. Oh wait, I do… it’s the power of the ultra-rich to have their lap dogs arrange the laws to their advantage.
One of the most infamous is the exploding Ford Pinto, where Ford decided they wouldn’t recall all the Pintos, because it would be cheaper to pay off those who were fried than to do a total recall.
The sum total of all such cases wilful of murder by the ultrarich, where there is NO mitigating factor of consumer choice, MASSIVELY outweighs the puny efforts of terrorists.
I can’t wait to see Tim’s reaction to the new discriminatory anti-LGBT bill rushed through by Republicans in North Carolina. Worse than the Indiana bill last year, and this one became law because the Republicans snuck it in late at night in a special session.
Already other major companies are speaking out against this bill that legalizes discrmination. Of course that’s what the GOP is all about these days, discrimination against everyone except for white anglo-saxon protestants. The GOP has become a neo fascist party.
The GOP seems to have gone senile over the last generation, becoming a decrepit, decaying organism gone incontinent, brittle and bipolar, one that paranoiacally fears and despises even their own leading candidates for president. Will they unite behind one of them at the end, even whilst throwing up in their mouths, in order to defeat the even more vile Dems? The political drama in the USA today is as extreme as any you’d find in third world countries. The esteem the USA once enjoyed is gone with the wind, squandered by a small group of mean-spirited, small-minded, pig-eyed representatives elected under false pretenses, and by their imperious, amoral corporate donors.
My only problem with your eloquent diatribe is that you restrict it to the republican party. Same words with a few changes can be said for democrats.
Thanks pedro but I did throw in how the Dems were more vile than the GOP. My comment was more a lament on how far a once vital social operation had fallen, but I suppose it did come across more as a partisan slam.
In an election year, one oughtn’t need a reminder, but still—what you hear is the sound of wheedling, nothing more. Use your own higher powers of thought to decide who you want to trust with your life and property and freedom.