Steve Jobs
Autor Walter Isaacson Dylan Bakeren Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 14 sep 2015
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Imaginați-vă un om care invită un biograf să îi scrie viața, dar îi cere explicit să nu îi arate manuscrisul înainte de tipar, acceptând riscul unei onestități brutale. Ne-a atras atenția acest paradox fundamental: Steve Jobs a fost un spirit obsedat de controlul absolut asupra produselor sale, dar a oferit libertate totală lui Walter Isaacson pentru a-i documenta „demonii și pasiunile”. Suntem de părere că această biografie, disponibilă aici în format audio, surprinde tocmai tensiunea dintre perfecționismul feroce și vulnerabilitatea unui om care recunoștea deschis greșelile tinereții. Scena este dominată de un antreprenor care nu doar că a creat obiecte, ci a fuzionat arta cu ingineria, revoluționând șase industrii. Subliniem efortul monumental de documentare: peste 40 de interviuri cu Jobs și mărturii de la peste o sută de apropiați și rivali, oferind o perspectivă necosmetizată. Pe același raft cu The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs de Carmine Gallo, dar cu un accent pe complexitatea umană și pe parcursul biografic complet, lucrarea de față este mai mult decât un manual de afaceri. În contextul operei lui Walter Isaacson, acest titlu continuă explorarea geniului începută în Einstein: His Life and Universe și Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, dar aduce o notă de actualitate vibrantă, fiind cronica omului care a definit economia erei digitale. Ritmul narativ, susținut excelent de lectura lui Dylan Baker, transformă biografia într-o experiență cinematică despre inovație și caracter.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1442394935
Dimensiuni: 145 x 132 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:Prescurtată
Editura: Simon & Schuster Audio
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această biografie oricui dorește să înțeleagă arhitectura minții din spatele fenomenului Apple. Cititorul câștigă o lecție autentică de leadership și inovație, învățând cum se pot îmbina creativitatea și rigoarea tehnică. Este o resursă esențială pentru antreprenori și pasionați de tehnologie care caută un portret onest, dincolo de mitul corporatist, despre sacrificiile și viziunea necesare pentru a schimba lumea.
Despre autor
Walter Isaacson este un reputat jurnalist și biograf american, fost editor al revistei Time și CEO al Aspen Institute. Renumit pentru capacitatea sa de a descifra mințile unor genii precum Leonardo da Vinci sau Albert Einstein, Isaacson s-a specializat în portretizarea figurilor care au modelat istoria prin inovație. În Steve Jobs, el aplică rigoarea documentară și stilul narativ clar pentru a surprinde esența revoluției digitale. În prezent, este profesor la Universitatea Tulane și continuă să exploreze frontierele științei și tehnologiei în lucrări precum The Code Breaker.
Descriere scurtă
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.
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 21st 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. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide 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.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. 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.
Descriere
From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Apple's Steve Jobs, written with his full cooperation.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this book chronicles the rollercoaster 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.
At a time when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, 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, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits and instead encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out."
Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. Likewise, his friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, demons, perfectionism, desires, artistry, devilry, and obsession for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were all interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Recenzii
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this book chronicles the rollercoaster 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.
At a time when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, 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, so he built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits and instead encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out."
Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. Likewise, his friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, demons, perfectionism, desires, artistry, devilry, and obsession for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were all interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Premii
- Audies Finalist, 2012