Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

出版时间

2011-10-24

ISBN

9781451648539

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
AI导读
核心看点
  • 基于四十多次访谈,全景还原乔布斯跌宕起伏的人生轨迹。
  • 揭示其如何以极致完美主义革新电脑、手机等六大产业。
  • 展现其特立独行、桀骜不驯却又极具创造力的复杂性格。
适合谁读
  • 对科技史、苹果公司发展及硅谷创业文化感兴趣的读者。
  • 希望从乔布斯身上汲取创新思维与产品设计灵感的从业者。
  • 关注人物传记,想了解天才背后人性弱点与成长历程的人。
读前提醒
  • 本书篇幅较长,建议结合乔布斯生平时间线分段阅读。
  • 注意区分作者客观叙述与乔布斯主观视角,保持批判性。
  • 重点关注其“现实扭曲力场”及极简主义设计理念的体现。
读者共识
  • 文笔流畅节奏佳,虽部分细节略显仓促,但整体极具可读性。
  • 不回避其性格缺陷,还原了鲜活立体、有血有肉的乔布斯。
  • 不仅是个人传记,更是一部浓缩的硅谷发展与科技演进史。

本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成,不等同于全文精读。

精彩摘录
  • "如果你坐下来静静观察,你会发现自己的心灵有多焦躁,如果你想平静下来,那情况只会更糟,但是时间久了之后总会平静下来,心里就会有空间让你聆听更加微妙的东西--这时候你的直觉就开始发展,你看事情就会更加透彻,也更能感受现实的环境。你的心灵逐渐平静下来,你的视界会极大地延伸。你能看到之前看不到的东西。这是一种修行,你必须不断练习。"
  • "有一位叫做艾伦·凯(Alan Kay)的科学家,他的两句格言深得乔布斯认同:“预见未来最好的方式就是亲手创造未来”以及“对待软件严肃认真的人,应该制造自己专属的硬件。”"
  • "致疯狂的人。他们特立独行。他们桀骜不驯。他们惹是生非。他们格格不入。他们用与众不同的眼光看待事物。他们不喜欢墨守成规。他们也不安于现状。你可以认同他们,反对他们,颂扬或是诋毁他们。但惟独不能漠视他们。因为他们改变了寻常事物。他们推动人类向前迈进。或许他们是别人眼里的疯子,但他们却是我们眼中的天才。因为只有那些疯狂到以为自己能够改变世界的人……才能真正改变世界。"
  • "“他的观念与我也十分一致。他强调说,你永远不该怀着赚钱的目的去创办一家公司。你的目标应该是做出让你自己深信不疑的产品,创办一家生命力很强的公司。” 马库拉把自己的原则写在一页纸上,标题为“苹果营销哲学”,其中强调了三点。第一点是共鸣(empathy),就是紧密结合顾客的感受。“我们要比其他任何公司都更好地理解使用者的需求。”第二点是专注(focus)。“为了做好我们决定做的事情,我们必须拒绝所有不重要的机会。” 第三点也是同样重要的一点原则,有一个让人困惑的名字,灌输(impute)。这涉及人们是如何根据一家公司或一个产品传达的信号,来形成对它的判断。“人们确实会以貌取物,“他写道,”我们也许"
  • "在宣传册顶端,麦肯纳放上了一句格言,这句话被普遍认为出自列奥纳多·达·芬奇,也成为了乔布斯设计理念的决定性准则:“至繁归于至简。(Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.) 尽管各种证据摆在面前,但他还是坚信,他的素食习惯意味着他不需要使用香体剂,也不需要经常洗澡。”我们把他请出门外,让他去洗个澡,“马库拉说,”开会的时候还不得不看着他的脏脚。“有时候,为了缓解压力,乔布斯会把他的脚泡在马桶里,让同事们颇感不适。"
  • "记住自己很快就要死了,这是我面对人生重大选择时最重要的工具。因为,几乎一切——所有外界的期望,所有骄傲,所有对于困窘和失败的恐惧——这些东西都在死亡面前烟消云散,只留下真正重要的东西。记住自己终会死去,是我所知最好的方式,避免陷入认为自己会失去什么的陷阱。你已是一无所有,没理由不追随内心。"
  • "格罗斯曼在其独家报道中一针见血地指出,iPhone并没有真正发明许多新功能,而只是让这些功能实用了很多。「但这很重要。如果工具不顺手,我们往往会觉得是自己太傻,没有阅读使用手册,或者手指太肥……如果工具很糟,我们会觉得自己也很逊。如果有人改进了工具,我们会觉得自己也完美了点儿。」"
  • "紧密结合顾客的感受。我们要比任何公司都更好的理解使用者的需求。"
作者简介
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been ch airman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.
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