Steve Jobs’ acolytes say Becoming Steve Jobs paints a more fitting picture of the Apple founder than Walter Isaacson’s “authorised” 2011 life. Most neutral readers who plough through another 435 pages of Jobsiana, will neither know nor care. But the battle of the bios will have been worth it if it sounds the death-knell for the worst of all management memes: the leadership lesson listicle.
史蒂夫?喬布斯(Steve Jobs)的擁躉稱,《成為史蒂夫?喬布斯》(Becoming Steve Jobs)塑造的這位蘋果(Apple)創(chuàng)始人的形象,比2011年沃爾特?艾薩克森(Walter Isaacson)的那本“授權版”喬布斯傳記要貼切得多。而絕大多數埋頭苦讀又一本關于喬布斯軼事長達435頁書籍的中立讀者,可能既也不會知道也不會在乎這一點。不過,如果能夠為一種最糟糕的管理學謎米(meme)——領導力經驗清單體(Listicle)——敲響喪鐘的話,這場喬布斯傳記之爭也就值得了。