Leadership
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Steve Jobs called Tim Cook ‘not a product person,’ but still hand-picked him to run Apple and turn it into a $4 trillion tech giant
Tim Cook and Steve Jobs couldn’t have been more different, according to the Apple founder’s biographer Walter. Jobs was a creative genius that spearheaded the development of Apple’s signature products including the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPod. But he was also a hothead, known for pushing people to their limits and sometimes creating conflict…
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Stephen and Ayesha Curry are coming for the sports drink market—and their kids were the first focus group
Stephen and Ayesha Curry are globally famous and could probably get, well, pretty much anyone to pick up the phone. But when they needed just the right audience to taste test whether a nutritious sports drink they were considering backing was going to be a hit, they turned to the most discerning audience they knew:…
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Boards say the C-suite owns the AI strategy. The C-suite doesn’t agree
Boards are clear. The C-suite is running AI. In a new Pearl Meyer survey of 108 executives and board members released on Wednesday, 90% of board members said responsibility for leading artificial intelligence effectively belongs with the C-suite and their direct reports—essentially all the most-senior executives within a company. Inside the C-suite itself? Executives are…
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Craving work-life balance is a huge red flag, says Fortune 500 CEO—and like Barack Obama, he happily works through the weekends
While millennial and Gen Z workers consistently rank work-life balance as their number one priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest healthcare companies, says if you’re obsessing over balance, your problem isn’t the hours. It’s the job. “When the balance of your life becomes a topic, then you have a…
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John Ternus, the man stepping into Tim Cook and Steve Jobs’ shoes, is a 25-year Apple veteran with zero LinkedIn posts
Apple’s next CEO John Ternus is a company veteran who rose through the iPhone maker’s hardware engineering ranks but until now has maintained a low profile. Ternus will take over as chief executive in September for Tim Cook, who turned Apple into a $4 trillion tech colossus during his 15-year run after the death of…
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Here’s what Warren Buffett, Sam Altman, Donald Trump, and everyone else has to say about Tim Cook stepping down
Apple’s entering a new era. The company announced on Monday that CEO Tim Cook will be stepping down and John Ternus, Apple’s current senior vice president of hardware engineering, will succeed him. Cook has led the company for almost 15 years, assuming the role shortly before founder Steve Jobs’ death in 2011. Under his leadership,…
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Apple is slipping on Tim Cook’s exit. Wall Street says buy anyway
Tim Cook is handing Apple to its hardware chief, John Ternus. Wall Street is fine with it; Main Street, less so. The stock fell nearly 1% to around $270 after Tuesday’s open on news Ternus would succeed Cook on Sept. 1, with Cook transitioning to executive chairman after 15 years as CEO. Wedbush, Evercore, Citi,…
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells Gen Z that if they want to be successful, they have to ‘pay their dues’ first
Gen Z has a long checklist for their early careers: solid pay, work-life balance, and a trajectory that won’t be wiped out by AI. But according to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the dream of landing a great job straight out of college is the first thing that needs to go—because it almost never works that…
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Apple just named its next CEO—and Tim Cook is passing down the same advice Steve Jobs once gave him
Apple just named its next CEO, who will be taking the reins from Tim Cook this fall: longtime insider John Ternus. He inherits the $4 trillion company that became a global icon under late cofounder Steve Jobs, and Cook says he’d offer his successor the same advice Jobs gave him when he stepped into the…
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Meet Blackstone’s ‘accidental influencer’ who made LinkedIn jogs Wall Street’s must‑watch content
It is nine degrees on a Sunday in January, and while most New Yorkers are hunkered down during New York City’s largest snowfall in years, Blackstone’s president and chief operating officer is jogging through several inches of fresh snow in Central Park. Jonathan Gray sounds a little out of breath as the snow falls around…