Tag archives for Steve Jobs

  1. Incentives and Marks

    Incentives can be powerful things especially for the worse.  Here’s one professor’s story on why he’s not a professor anymore.  A particularly interesting excerpt is on the subject of “scaling” marks: “However there are lots of ways round this little problem. One of them is doctoring the marks.  Except its not called ‘doctoring’ its called…

  2. A Players

    “A players hire A players; B players hire C players; and C players hire D players.  It doesn’t take too long to get to Z.” – Steve Jobs (taken from the Kawasaki’s Art of the Start) Behind every great person there are other great people.  In fact, some of the most successful people are great…