{"id":62744,"date":"2011-07-26T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=62744"},"modified":"2026-09-03T06:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:39:59","slug":"why-steve-jobs-couldnt-find-a-job-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=62744","title":{"rendered":"Why Steve Jobs Couldn\u2019t Find a Job Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adamhartung\/2011\/02\/18\/why-steve-jobs-couldnt-find-a-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, to start with, he&#8217;s a non-Hispanic white male.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While 1,500 CEOs say that creativity is the single most important quality for success today \u2013 and studies bear out the greater success of creative, innovative leaders \u2013 the study found that when it came to hiring and promoting practices businesses consistently marked down the creative managers and bypassed them, selecting less creative types!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quelle surprise.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don\u2019t forget, the Apple Board fired Steve Jobs some 20 years ago to give his role to a less creative, but more \u201cprofessional,\u201d John Scully.\u00a0 Mr. Scully was subsequently fired by the Board for creatively investing too heavily in the innovative Newton \u2013 the first PDA \u2013 to be replaced by a leadership team willing to jettison this new product market and refocus all attention on the Macintosh.\u00a0 Both CEO decisions turned out to be horrible for Apple, and it was only after Mr. Jobs returned to the company that its fortunes re-blossomed when the company replaced outdated industrial management philosophies with innovation.\u00a0 But, oh-so-close the company came to complete failure before re-igniting the innovation jets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Well, to start with, he&#8217;s a non-Hispanic white male. While 1,500 CEOs say that creativity is the single most important quality for success today \u2013 and studies bear out the greater success of creative, innovative leaders \u2013 the study found that when it came to hiring and promoting practices businesses consistently marked down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416724,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62744\/revisions\/416724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}