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The most famous Interim CEO was Steve Jobs.
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He was also employee #2 and #0 at the same time, so Quantum CEO?
He also aggressively recruited and hired the guy (Sculley) that got him fired from Apple on the first pass.
Amateur move on his part, hiring an 'MBA head' CEO
Tim Cook is also MBA and it looks like it is working fine for Apple.
I think he's good at operations. But he doesn't lead the same way jobs did. apple can still turn the crank, but I don't think they innovate like when sj was around. Jobs worked with the outside world well, and cooperating well with the rest of silicon valley.

I think apple is now heavily navel-gazing. Their products point inwards into their ecosystem, they don't interoperate, the customer is trapped, they have few choices. maybe I should say egosystem?

> I don't think they innovate like when sj was around

I would have agreed with this before the M1 Macbooks came out, but when it did it caused a big change in my opinion.

Yes but he spent a lot of time inside Apple and grew within it

The problems you have selling sugar water are not the same problems that Apple has today (or since Cook moved into the post).

yeah I know but issue is not MBA it is what kinda culture you come and where you are good. Selling sugar water (you need to be like super good at marketing) and leading tech firm need different skills.
I've read Sculley's book as a teenager and I remember that it made a big impression on me, even though I don't remember much. I think the PepsiCo part was really gripping.