Steve JobsSimon and Schuster, 2011 M10 24 - 630 pages Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 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. Isaacson’s portrait touched millions of readers. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, 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 the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. He himself spoke candidly about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues offer 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. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. |
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Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER | 21 |
CHAPTER THREE | 31 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 42 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 56 |
He Who Is Abandoned | 86 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 92 |
A Man of Wealth and Fame | 102 |
CHAPTER TWENTYFIVE | 327 |
CHAPTER TWENTYSIX | 340 |
CHAPTER TWENTYSEVEN | 348 |
Still Crazy after All These Years | 358 |
CHAPTER TWENTYNINE | 368 |
CHAPTER THIRTY | 378 |
Im the Pied Piper | 394 |
The Sound Track of His Life | 411 |
CHAPTER | 108 |
Real Artists Simplify | 125 |
The Journey Is the Reward | 135 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 148 |
A Dent in the Universe | 159 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 171 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 180 |
Prometheus Unbound | 211 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN | 238 |
Love Is Just a FourLetter Word | 250 |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE | 267 |
Buzz and Woody to the Rescue | 284 |
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE | 293 |
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR | 305 |
and Foes | 426 |
CHAPTER THIRTYFOUR | 444 |
Memento Mori | 452 |
CHAPTER THIRTYSIX | 465 |
The Cancer Recurs | 476 |
CHAPTER THIRTYEIGHT | 490 |
CHAPTER THIRTYNINE | 511 |
The Cloud the Spaceship and Beyond | 525 |
The Twilight Struggle | 538 |
The Brightest Heaven of Invention | 560 |
Epilogue | 573 |
Afterword | 579 |
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