[raverbashing]

legend says Tony Fadell (iPod creator) threatened to quit when SJ wanted to put a x86 processor on the iPad

I believe such an environment can be very important. if you have very good people

Also, it's one thing to stand for your idea agressively, other, to just swear at people.

[ralfd]

This is an interesting point. It is valuable to have this kind of engineer instead of a Yes-man.

Steve Jobs was famously difficult. Certainly not the kind of boss I would want. But the turnover in his inner circle was really low. Craig Federighi who on Monday demonstrated the next OS X is a Guy from the old NeXT days. I think Jobs selected people as underlings who were able to stand up to him (sometimes).

[philwelch]

According to his biography, he would give an award every year to the employee who stood up to him the best.