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"We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh."
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"Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager."
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"I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak."
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"The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability."
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"Successful people carefully manage their energy and associations, they are gatekeepers."
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"If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it's a recipe for disaster."
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"Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations."
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"We need to learn to protect our time."
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"The challenge is having a harmonized vision about management philosophy, capability, structure, and maturity in a digital organization."
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"You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality."
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"Organizational culture is just like the "Operation System of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly."
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"Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years."
Existence
"In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before."
Power
"I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement."
Time
"The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people."
People
"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
Technology
"People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well."
Work
"We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh."
Management
"I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here."
Food
"Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path."
Being
"A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997."
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