Steve Jobs - Engage face-to-face

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its potential to be isolating, Jobs was a big believer in face-to-face meetings. "There's a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat," he told me. "That's crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they're doing, you say 'Wow', and soon you're cooking up all sorts of ideas."

Slide shows were banned. "I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking," Jobs recalled. "People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what theyre talking about dont need PowerPoint." ... READ MORE

Biographer Walter Isaacson identified 13 aspects of Steve Jobs and CSNZ has pleasure in presenting the eleventh on Engage face-to-face

Released by the Australian Financial Review - June 2012