Steve: Please get well

10/06/08 15:35
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Anyone who watched the keynote or looks at the pictures of Steve on stage can see how thin and frail he really looks. While the people at Apple say he was “a little under the weather” it seems to me that there maybe something else going on. To put my “wants” for Apple products on hold for now I want Steve to get well and get healthy. While I do believe he has an ego he has done more to turn around Apple and stand the communications industry on its head than anyone. He is a man of vision and passion but sometimes you need time to do nothing and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
I admire Steve a lot even though I don’t agree with the way he intimidates his employees. Before his return to Apple the company had become the laughing stock of the industry and the stock was more valuable as napkins than in a portfolio. He has been portrayed as having a huge ego and demanding more and more for the people who work for him but I believe very few people could have done what he did at Apple.


He transformed the music business and caught all the electronics companies with their knickers down. He has taken the Mac platform to be the industry standard in the computer business and has Apple making money hand over fist. Yes the routing of the jeans and black mock tee is getting tired but then when you deliver like he has you can wear whatever you want.


Passionate people can burn out as their passion drives them and I don’t want that to happen to Steve. I hope and believe that he needs to take some time off, a month or two, so that he can relax and enjoy the impact he has had on consumers. This would also be a great opportunity to start training his successor to see if he, or she, can lead with the same passion that Steve has.

The people on Wall Street will be looking at Jobs health as an asset that could make the stock go down or up...I look at Steve as a person who may be really sick whom I admire and want around for a long long time to come. Please Steve get better.
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