In 2010, at a launch event in San Francisco, Steve Jobs introduced the first-generation iPad. This new product shook the entire PC industry at the time. Today, Apple is about to start selling the 10th generation iPad, available in four colors: red, yellow, blue and gray. But there was no launch event for it. The lack of a launch event […]
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Jobs vs Cook: Different Views on Hiring
This article is dedicated to the 11th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing. According to a recent report by CNBC, Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the graduation ceremony of the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, stating that he has noticed that the company’s “success” depends on its culture and employees. He told the faculty and students of the […]
Going Downhill Doesn’t Get Smoother, It Gets Faster
Going downhill, can it not be smooth? When director Xu Zheng’s Shanghainese film “Love Mythology” was released at the beginning of the year, people might not have thought that Shanghai would become the focus of the world in another way this year. The line spoken by Ma Yili in the movie even became prophetic: “Going downhill, can it not be […]
Why Can’t Business Executives Beat HR?
Purely from a functional standpoint, the HR department is completely redundant in a company. Everyone knows this. In 1996, Fortune magazine columnist Thomas Stewart wrote an article entitled “Blow Up Your HR Department.” In 2014, Larry Charan wrote in his article “Splitting the HR Department”: “It’s time to say goodbye to the HR department. I’m not talking about canceling the […]
Giant Baby Companies
Whether in the workplace or in life, encountering a “giant baby” is a very headache. But worse is the “giant baby company,” and there are still quite a few of these companies. The so-called “giant baby” grew up in the indulgence of their parents and considered themselves the eldest son of so-and-so. They should have grown up and fought on […]
Why Don’t Innovators Apply to Large Companies?
Both domestically and abroad, a notable phenomenon is that in the past 20 years, true innovators have mostly chosen not to work for large companies. Why is this? On the one hand, the management practices of many large companies are mostly behind the times. They are precisely the objects of subversion by innovative companies. Accenture CEO Pierre Nanterme once said: […]