“Tim was always pure work: grind, grind, grind, grind,” says one former Apple executive who worked with Cook in his early years at the company and who, as with other sources in this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of nondisclosure agreements and fear of corporate reprisals. “I always found him exceptionally boring.”
One day back then, he convened a meeting with his team, and the discussion turned to a particular problem in Asia. “This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty minutes into that meeting Cook looked at Sabih Khan, a key operations executive, and abruptly asked, without a trace of emotion, “Why are you still here?”Khan, who remains one of Cook’s top lieutenants to this day, immediately stood up, drove to San Francisco International Airport, and, without a change of clothes, booked a flight to China with no return date, according to people familiar with the episode. The story is vintage Cook: demanding and unemotional.
En dat heeft iemand als Tim Cook allemaal op zijn nek. Ik zou geen oog dichtdoen.
Dat beslissen besteedt een man als Cook zoveel mogelijk uit. Heb geen illusies. Een bedrijf als Apple leid je op hoofdlijnen.
Maar zullen Alexander de Grote en Caesar hun officieren gevraagd hebben of ze de aanval moesten openen of niet? Ik denk het toch niet.