http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
This article was written by Malcolm Gladwell and is about Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs had a bad side to him. He was a perfectionist and he always gave other people a hard time when he did not get his way. I think that many times people in positions of power, like Steve Jobs, have very demanding and sometimes rude personalities. The article talked about how Steve Jobs was more of a tweaker of past inventions than the innovator and visionary we have all come to think of him as. One of the ideas of the article was how many times people aren’t given credit for their accomplishments. Steve Jobs took a lot of the credit for ideas and designs done by his staff. In our lives, we can try to look behind an invention or an accomplishment of one person and try to see all of the people who deserve credit for it. One example is a new world record in a team sport like basketball or football. One player may get the record, but they certainly could not have done it without an entire team’s support. Gladwell also gives the reader examples of other people who remade previous inventions and had a huge affect on the world. The example Gladwell used was British inventors in the Industrial Revolution who improved the spinning wheel. There are plenty of other objects today that would not be the same if it weren’t for “tweakers,” such as the telephone, automobiles, and shoes. Often it is the first invention that does not change the world, but a remake of it that made it better. I think that is how Jobs became so successful is because he built computers and mp3 players from improving on other already-made inventions. After reading the article, I have a new perspective on the creator of Apple. He was not perfect and certainly was not as remarkable as I previously thought.
This article was written by Malcolm Gladwell and is about Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs had a bad side to him. He was a perfectionist and he always gave other people a hard time when he did not get his way. I think that many times people in positions of power, like Steve Jobs, have very demanding and sometimes rude personalities. The article talked about how Steve Jobs was more of a tweaker of past inventions than the innovator and visionary we have all come to think of him as. One of the ideas of the article was how many times people aren’t given credit for their accomplishments. Steve Jobs took a lot of the credit for ideas and designs done by his staff. In our lives, we can try to look behind an invention or an accomplishment of one person and try to see all of the people who deserve credit for it. One example is a new world record in a team sport like basketball or football. One player may get the record, but they certainly could not have done it without an entire team’s support. Gladwell also gives the reader examples of other people who remade previous inventions and had a huge affect on the world. The example Gladwell used was British inventors in the Industrial Revolution who improved the spinning wheel. There are plenty of other objects today that would not be the same if it weren’t for “tweakers,” such as the telephone, automobiles, and shoes. Often it is the first invention that does not change the world, but a remake of it that made it better. I think that is how Jobs became so successful is because he built computers and mp3 players from improving on other already-made inventions. After reading the article, I have a new perspective on the creator of Apple. He was not perfect and certainly was not as remarkable as I previously thought.
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