I've heard this story about Steve Jobs and both his communication style and attention to detail (it may be apocryphal):
"Steve was in a meeting with several senior engineers at Apple and asked:
'Can we make the phone smaller?'
The engineers responded 'No, it's as small as we can make it'
Steve then picked up the phone and threw it into a fish tank.
As everyone watched the phone sink into the tank, Steve turned and said 'I see air bubbles coming out of the phone. That would lead me to believe there is still unused space in the phone!' "
I wonder if anyone at Apple these days has that intersection of:
- attention to small details
- able to communicate which details are the most important
- has the sway to be able to do the above an make changes
"Steve was in a meeting with several senior engineers at Apple and asked:
'Can we make the phone smaller?'
The engineers responded 'No, it's as small as we can make it'
Steve then picked up the phone and threw it into a fish tank.
As everyone watched the phone sink into the tank, Steve turned and said 'I see air bubbles coming out of the phone. That would lead me to believe there is still unused space in the phone!' "
I wonder if anyone at Apple these days has that intersection of:
- attention to small details
- able to communicate which details are the most important
- has the sway to be able to do the above an make changes