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Insightful chronicle of Steve Jobs's triumphant return.
If you're intrigued by how visionaries shape our world, "iCon Steve Jobs" is more than just a biography—it's a study of resilience and innovation. It's for those who admire the tenacity it takes to rise, fall, and rise again, even stronger. This book provides a candid look at Jobs's journey, offering inspiration for anyone fascinated by the intersection of creativity, technology, and business.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
Icon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
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ISBN: 9780471720836
Publisher: Wiley
Date of Publication: 2005-05-23
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 4.05
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iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely. This unflinching and completely unauthorized portrait reveals both sides of Jobs’s role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, also re-creates the acrimony between Jobs and Disney’s Michael Eisner, and examines Jobs’s dramatic rise from the ashes with his recapture of Apple. The authors examine the takeover and Jobs’s reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod. iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the age–a master of three industries: movies, music, and computers.
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Insightful chronicle of Steve Jobs's triumphant return.
If you're intrigued by how visionaries shape our world, "iCon Steve Jobs" is more than just a biography—it's a study of resilience and innovation. It's for those who admire the tenacity it takes to rise, fall, and rise again, even stronger. This book provides a candid look at Jobs's journey, offering inspiration for anyone fascinated by the intersection of creativity, technology, and business.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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