| | FEATURED CONTENT |  |  | Steve Jobs: Following in the footsteps of an icon | | This week’s On Leadership roundtable explores Tim Cook’s succession of Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple. The pieces, written for The Washington Post by leadership experts just days before Jobs’s death on Wednesday, examined the unique challenge of following in the footsteps of such an icon. While the discussion was framed around Tim Cook’s first product launch as CEO earlier this week (an event that fell short of many customers’, shareholders’ and analysts’ expectations), their reflections on how to lead Apple in the era after Steve Jobs have even greater resonance in the days since. As Bill Gates, longtime competitor and fellow technology leader, wrote in a public statement following Steve Jobs’s passing, “The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. Our leadership experts — William C. Taylor, Nancy Koehn and Carol Kinsey Goman — similarly acknowledged the legacy Jobs left, and discussed the unique challenges and context this creates for Cook as he takes the helm at Apple. » Read more | | | | |
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