In the morning I presented you a analyzes quite interesting on the way the Apple company is run but also on the structure that makes the important decisions regarding the future of the company. The material was published in Fortune Magazine, but the editor of that article also made several dISCLOSURE very interesting about Steve Jobs and what he thinks about the future of the company. It seems that Steve Jobs is confident that Apple will survive very well even in his absence, moreover, he has set in motion some plans that will help future leaders make the wisest decisions.
Jobs himself believes he has set Apple on a course to survive in his absence. He has created a culture that, while not particularly jolly, has internalized his ways. ... these days, he's especially focused on institutionalizing his ways of doing business. His mission: to turn the traits that people most closely associate with Jobs–the attention to detail, the secrecy, the constant feedback–into processes that can ensure Apple's excellence far into the future.
Steve Jobs is so focused on the future of the company that he hired the former dean of the management faculty of the prestigious Yale University for the position of vice president of the human resources department at Apple. Jobs gave him the directive to build some case studies about the most important decisions made by the management of the Apple company in recent years, case studies that will be presented to the future management of the company.
It runs out Podolny has been busy working on a project that speaks directly to the delicate topic of life at Apple after Jobs. At Jobs' instruction, Podolny hired a team of business professors, including the renowned Harvard veteran and Andy Grove biographer Richard Tedlow. This band of eggheads is writing a series of internal case studies about significant decisions in Apple's recent history. It's exactly the sort of thing the major business schools do, except Apple's case studies are for an Apple-only audience... The goal is to expose the next layer of management to the executive team's thought process... Jobs even is ensuring that his teachings are being collected, curated and preserved so that future generations of Apple's leaders can consult and interpret them.
It seems that in recent years Steve Jobs has made a plan regarding the succession to the leadership of Apple, all with the idea of ensuring that in the event of his death the company will be as successful as it has been until now.
