[bar_de]

Would another Steve Jobs personality have a chance at today's corporate environment?

I have doubts: leadership is a hot iron where laissez faire approaches are favoured. The cite from Kawasaki that he was "unpleasant and always scary" would surely give a today's Steve Jobs a date with HR.

A leader like Steve would be today called "toxic" and probably never promoted at all.

[Apocryphon]

There are plenty of toxic executives and managers still in abundance in the corporate world, never mind toxic CEOs.

[sumedh]

> would surely give a today's Steve Jobs a date with HR.

If he was running the company, HR would just bury the issues.

[elliekelly]

Is that necessarily a bad thing? By all accounts he was a terrible person to work for and with.