Tim Cook says he loves THIS trick of Steve Jobs as Apple CEO

Applauding Steve Jobs’ administration vogue, Apple CEO Tim Cook in an interview said that he admires how he held all people on the agency to the similar regular of creativity and the way in which he pushed all people to their limit. 

Speaking to GQ, Cook said “I knew I couldn’t be Steve [when I became CEO].” 

“I don’t suppose anybody may probably be Steve. I imagine he was a once-in-a-hundred-years sort of explicit individual, an distinctive by any stretch of the creativeness. And so what I wanted to do was to be the right mannequin of myself,” he added.

In the interview, Tim Cook also admitted that he took a leadership trick or two from Steve Jobs that he loves. 

“One of the things I loved about him was he didn’t expect innovation out of just one group in the company or creativity out of one group,” Cook said. “He anticipated it everywhere throughout the agency.”

Before taking the role of CEO in 2011, Tim Cook was Apple’s chief operating officer, overseeing worldwide operations and sales.

“When we were running operations, we tried to be innovative in operations and creative in operations, just like we were creative elsewhere,” Cook said. “We principally wanted to be in order to assemble the merchandise that we had been designing.”

Under Cook administration, Apple has grown to show right into a multi trillion-dollar agency instantly. He oversaw the launch of Airpods, Apple Watch and the M1 processor. Apple moreover expanded its service-based selections beneath Cook administration.

Cook admitted to GQ that he nonetheless makes use of some of Jobs’ earlier traditions, like 9 a.m. conferences every Monday. Speaking at Vox Media’s 2022 Code Conference in Los Angeles, Tim Cook said “He was the right teacher I ever had, by far. Those teachings keep on, not merely in me, in an entire bunch of people that discover themselves [at Apple].”

“We don’t really look back very much at all in history. We’re always focused on the future and trying to feel like that we’re very much sort of at that starting line where you can really dream and have big ideas that are not constrained by the past in some kind of way,” Cook said.

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