Steve Jobs knew that he was not an expert in the cinema – even after having financed a screening for the Pixar animation studio, which was originally the division of the production company Lucasfilm, in 1986.
Jobs was “quite surprising to say:” It’s not my company “,” Pixar’s creation director Pete Docter said Thursday during the most innovative Business Summit in Fast Company. Jobs’ attitude was “I’m not going to come here and direct this film or tell you what to do,” said Doctter.
As an employee of the 35-year-old company, Doctor was able to see the co-founder of Apple operating closely. Here is a doctor of leadership force noted in jobs – and a habit that he hopes never to get.
Jobs could quickly analyze what was the conversation ”
A skill that had jobs was to be able to distill a conversation to its essence and to deliver the main idea succinctly.
“He could go into rooms where he knew nothing about what was going on,” said Doctor, “sit for about five minutes and analyze the conversation.” And this allowed jobs to help employees more easily solve problems.
“I think it came from years of practice,” said Doctter. “That it is not something with whom someone was really born.” It was a skill that he tried to improve.
“ He would call – especially producers – at any time, day or night ”
One thing that Jobs was not great, said Doctter, was to respect people’s personal time.
“He would call – in particular producers – at any time, day and night, 3 am, you are on vacation, does not matter,” said Doctor. “He wants to tell you about it, you are.”
Doctor assumes that this habit came from the passion for jobs for what he was doing. However, it is not a practice that he wants to use.
As a leader at Pixar, he tries not to call people at all hours of the night, but “I always send an email to people” outside office hours, he said.
“I guess that’s what my wife tries to stop doing,” he said.
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