The Book or The eBook?

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Steve Jobs  By Wal­ter Isaac­son Dig­i­tal media prod­ucts such as Ama­zon MP3s, Ama­zon Instant Video video down­loads, Kin­dle con­tent and Ama­zon Shorts can­not be pur­chased on aStore. Aver­age cus­tomer review: (66 cus­tomer reviews)

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEST­SELLING BIOGRA­PHIES OFBEN­JAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EIN­STEIN, THIS IS THEEXCLU­SIVE BIOG­RA­PHY OF STEVE JOBS.

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—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, and 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. 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. 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.

Prod­uct Details

• Ama­zon Sales Rank: #1 in eBooks
• Pub­lished on: 2011-10-24
• Released on: 2011-10-23
• For­mat: Kin­dle eBook
• Num­ber of items: 1
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