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iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business ハードカバー – 2005/5/13
- 本の長さ368ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Wiley
- 発売日2005/5/13
- 寸法16.51 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-100471720836
- ISBN-13978-0471720836
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"...the writing is savvy and lively...even readers with a scant interest in computers, technology or animated movies will find the tale entertaining..." (www.getabstract.com, 29 Aug. 2005)
"...a story of the personalities behind the facts and figures...includes some interesting personal touches..." (Liverpool Daily Post, 22nd June 2005)
“…rich in anecdotes and retellings of turning points in the lives of Jobs, Apple and Pixar…” (Information Age, 1st August 2005)
"...the authors paint a vivid picture of Jobs as an occasional genius and a regular jerk. All of which makes for gripping reading for any Mac fan..." (icreate, July-December 2005)
“…Young and Simon are particularly good at telling the inside story…” (Belfast Sunday Life, 3 July 2005)
“…new perspectives on the creation of Apple…details Jobs’s meteoric rise, fall and rise again…” (Moneywise, June 2005)
“…a well-balanced look at an incredible life. The achievements are all catalogued in full, as are the personal idiosyncrasies and shortcomings…” (Glasgow Sunday Herald, June 19 2005)
"Provides insight into inner businer business strategies and power plays between larger-than-life personalities such as Disney boss Michael Eisner." (USA Today)
Apparently, this book hit a nerve. Or several.
According to media reports, Apple Computer removed all of the titles published by John Wiley & Sons from its retail stores to protest this book. Included were the successful Dummies series, as well as computer-related volumes from popular authors Andy Ihnatko and Bob LeVitus.
So what's the fuss?
This biography of Apple's co-founder is fairly well balanced. The authors keenly admire Jobs despite the many personal shortcomings they catalog, gleefully referring to sundry over-the-top idiosyncrasies as examples of Jobs' ''Stevian'' hubris.
But there's much to admire about Jobs. An adopted child of a northern California working class couple, he parlayed rabid curiosity about electronics, preternatural entrepreneurial zeal and a fierce sense of self into a partnership with the brilliant Steve Wozniak and created the revolutionary Apple II, the first popular personal computer.
The pair became multimillionaires, though Wozniak eventually left the company to pursue other interests -- including flying small airplanes -- after nearly dying in a plane crash.
Jobs subsequently latched onto and took over a wayward project at Apple to develop the next generation machine, and the resulting Macintosh became the computer of choice for artists and other creative folks.
Jobs' prickly personality and immense ambition may have helped drive his success but also fueled clashes with executives, board members and others, and led to his forced departure from the company he co-founded.
That was Jobs' wild first act.
But authors Jeffrey Young and William Simon also chronicle what came next.
After leaving Apple, Jobs' new computer company, NeXT, was a near-disaster. Though technologically advanced, the box was expensive and ill suited for its intended market, universities. Still, the operating system held great promise and the possibility for Jobs' return to the spotlight.
When divorce forced Star Wars auteur George Lucas to sell off his nascent computer animation company, Pixar, Jobs scooped it up at a fraction of the asking price. Soon, the production company allied with Disney and became a creative powerhouse in its own right, with smash films, Toy Story and Finding Nemo.
When Pixar went public, Jobs became a billionaire. At the same time, Apple was having a rough time with its latest CEO, Gil Amelio, who slashed costs, consolidated product lines and seemed to be on the verge of turning the company around despite a lack of ''Stevian'' political prowess.
His search for an appropriate operating system for a new, more powerful Macintosh attracted Jobs' attention. His NeXT software was the ticket back to Apple. After some deft machinations, Amelio was sent packing and Jobs became ''interim'' CEO.
Soon, some new, very cool computers were introduced by Apple and the company was again deemed successful and sexy, though Young and Simon suggest that Jobs was the beneficiary of the departed Amelio's cost-cutting and new product development initiatives.
Regardless, Jobs struck gold again with the introduction of the iPod music player, and the ''interim'' was removed from his title.
The biography includes many personal details that surely embarrass Jobs, such as his early abandonment of a daughter born to an unmarried girlfriend (both of whom he later reconciled with and supported), along with endless examples of pride, egotism, venality, ruthlessness and conceit.
But it's still an interesting and engaging tale. Warts and all, for better or worse, Steve Jobs is undisputedly an American business icon. (Miami Herald, June 6, 2005)
"One of the most captivating business biographies of recent years. Young and Simon have done a masterful job." (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)
"A fascinating tale of an imaginative genius." (BookPage)
著者について
WILLIAM L. SIMON is coauthor of Kevin Mitnick's The Art of Deception and The Art of Intrusion, both published by Wiley, as well as the award-winning author of more than twenty other books.¿He lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
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- 出版社 : Wiley; 第1版 (2005/5/13)
- 発売日 : 2005/5/13
- 言語 : 英語
- ハードカバー : 368ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0471720836
- ISBN-13 : 978-0471720836
- 寸法 : 16.51 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm
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レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
その2 アップルユーザーはこの本を読んで、これからもユーザーであり続けるか考えてみましょう。
その3 ビジネスで勝ち残るために必要なことが少しは分かったような気がします。なにせジョッブスは、ピクサーアニメ、iPod、macを売ってる人ですからねえ。
その4 なぜアップルから、十分に完成されないまま商品が販売されることがあるのか分かったような気がします。
その5 この本を読んでiTune music store でピクサーのビデオを購入しました。
その6 NEWTONは復活しないとわかりました。
今、ジョブズ『公認』のジョブズ伝が、ウォルター・アイザックソンによってリリースされているが、こちらはジョブズに協力を要請したが『断られている』。発行においては多くを匿名にせざるをせざるをえない場合も多かったようだ。ただ、こういう場合『公認』が良いとは限らない。良い例がチェリスト、ジャクリーヌ・デュ・プレの生涯を描いた2冊の本だが、これは両方を読んで初めて見えてくるものがある。特に著者二人は、古くからこの世界のライターとして有名で、その視点の鋭さは類を見ないほどだ。充分に読むに値する、というよりは読まねばならない一冊である。ここでは赤裸々な『人間』スティーヴ・ジョブズの変遷を知ることができる。
第5章までは、『スティーブ・ジョブズ/パーソナル・コンピュータを創った男』上下2巻をコンパクトにまとめた感じで知っていることばかりだったが、第6章から一挙に面白くなる。まずはPixarだ。ディズニーを相手としたジョブズの決してあきらめないネゴシエイターぶりには驚くばかりである。フツーの人間なら一つでも立ち直れないくらいの失敗を数限りなく乗り越え、実質手札が尽きかけているにもかかわらず最後の勝負で大逆転をしていく。読者はこの本で、コンピュータ業界、音楽業界、そして映画業界という3つの世界で大逆転の末に勝ちをおさめるジョブズの姿とその勝負の全容を知ることができる。
そしてぼくらは、このあとのジョブズを知っている。iPhone4S(この命名は当初『iPhone5』と予想されていたこの端末を『iPhone4S』、つまり『iPhone for Steve』とすべく変更したのだとぼくは思っている)が発売3日で400万台という過去のアップル製品で最高のペースで売れていて、破綻寸前だったアップルは、2011年8月10日、時価総額が世界最大の会社になった。
『決してあきらめない』ということはどういうことか、それを本当の意味で知ることができる一冊である。
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The book, by no means, is focussed at Apple. The reviewers complaining about this should note that the title nowhere suggests this. It has a picture of Steve and says - The greatest second act in the history of business - Steve Job's act, not Apple's!
Another critique mentioned that the book doesn't follow a timeline and goes back and forth in time. I would call this as the greatest achievement of Simon and Young - the ability to justify a Stevian style decision that may come unexpectedly to the reader if a reference to his past is ignored. Further, the lack of a timeline (the only places where I recall having reference to Steve's age were when he started apple, when he was fired from Apple and when he got married) leaves me with the impression that Steve Jobs is not about age! He is as creative and energetic today as he was at 19. He was a hardware man, in love with little attractive gizmos, and he still is.
The book reveals the "darker" side of Steve, which some critiques found offending (for instance, Steve's stinking because he believed he shouldn't take a shower as he is a vegetarian, etc). What this tells me, instead, is the real picture of a man who would sound perfect if one looks at his CV only. The eccentricity Steve has reminds me of John Nash, Newton, Hitler and other great men in history, and the authors have been extremely vocal about Steve's eccentricity and lack of security.
Overall, I would rank this book amongst one of the most inspiring tale of a middle class high school graduate who created a "dent in the universe". I would recommend it to all young entrepreneurs who are bogged down by the dirty world of funding, VCs, business tricks, networking, accounting, etc, and forget the core ideas - creativity and self-belief. This is what Steve is all about, and this is what Simon and Young talk about in iCon.