Apple Doomed Without Steve Jobs
According to Jeff Christian, founder of executive search firm CTPartners, Steve Jobs cannot be replaced. He is Apple. "I've known Steve for over 15 years. At one point, I did most of the search work when Steve was gone and John Scully ran the company. I worked with Steve and got to know him pretty well when he returned. It was like they were two different companies," said Christian.
He continues, "John Scully was a great leader but after Jobs left, the company tried to pursue all of his next waves of creative ideas including the first generation iPad known as the Newton, and several others. However, without Jobs, all of them failed."
Christian remarked, "This could easily happen again. I'm sure Steve has many great product ideas 10 years out and probably already knows what the 2022 iPad will look like." When Jobs departed in the 90's, the team just couldn't do it without him--the technologists couldn't keep up and product development wasn't the same.
