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.