It’s the night of November 9th, 2001. The iPod is launching the following morning. Steve Jobs, sits down with a model, plugs in the earphones and listens to a song…only something isn’t right.1
Steve tries again, and though it functions, there is something about it he doesn’t like.
So picks up his phone and calls some of his engineers.
That night, that team of engineers stayed up into the night redesigning and rebuilding the jacks for 100 demo iPods just so they clicked into place correctly. This they did and the iPod went on to revolutionize the way we listen to music.
Was Jobs’ request stressful? Definitely. Unreasonable? Perhaps, but effective.
He encountered something that made him adapt, and used his opinionated, at times forceful style of leadership to achieve success.
They Stand Firm in Their Beliefs But They’re Not Rigid
Elon Musk2 too has been known to set the impossible for his employees, much like Steve Jobs, and both men are and were unmatched giants in their respective fields.
Both men are known and remembered for their great leadership ability, and unusual, but…
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