All About Business Strategy... Well, Almost...: THE WIZARD OF ‘WOZ’:
Over the time that I researched him, Woz’s answers to my queries made me realize that behind the geek who was technically ‘the’ creator of Apple’s computers during the 1970s and 1980s, lies a legendary entrepreneur who doesn’t like hogging the limelight. He never did. And from Woz, what I believe is the primary CEO-nurturing lesson that true entrepreneurs of the modern age should internalize is – encourage and spearhead the ideation processes and initial stages of product-making, and once you’ve found your optimally utopian CEO (or one who comes closest to that), give complete independence to your CEO to finally shape, market and sell the produce. Even if you’re gone tomorrow, your CEO and his successors should be trained well to adopt the company as his and take it forward responsibly – with shareholders to serve. Shy but determined, Woz was a creator of many-a-marvel, and the independence that he gave Jobs in executing the selling and marketing strategies is what I believe gave the primary cementing foundation to Jobs’ character and in Jobs becoming the greatest marketer and CEO in the world. And this effect had started much before Apple was even born (to be precise, five years before, with the invention of the ‘Blue Box’ – an instrument to make free calls – which these two tech wizards made; I’ve given more details later).
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