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Laut der Barnes and Noble Website, wird die offizielle Steve Jobs – Mit dem Titel: „: A Biography“ – am 21. November 2011 erscheinen.
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Dies ist ein großer Sprung von dem zuvor angekündigten Release-Termin, welcher der 6. März 2012 war. Darüber hinaus hat der Buchhändler auf der Website scheinbar das Cover für die Biographie(siehe Oben) bereits gezeigt und es ist überraschend einfach. (via AllThingsD).

Das Buch ist 448 Seiten lang und basiert auf über 40 Interviews. Interviewt wurde dabei Steve Jobs, seine Familie und einige Freunde von ihm. Obwohl die Biographie von Jobs genehmigt wurde, hatte der -Chef keine Kontrolle über den Inhalt der Biographie. Steve Jobs hatte diese über die Biographie zu sagen:

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that, he said. But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.

Hier geht es mit der vollständigen Beschreibung der Biographie weiter:

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 this book chronicles the rollercoaster 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.

It is also a book about innovation. 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 21st century was to connect creativity with technology, so 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 and instead encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly even foes, former girlfriends, and colleagues he had once fired or infuriated. “I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that,” he said. “But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.”

Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. Likewise, 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.

He was not a model boss or human being, tidily packaged for emulation. Driven by demons, he 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 thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

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