Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs
by Daniel Lyons
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Author: Daniel LyonsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-12
ISBN: 0306817411
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
"Options" is a great book for any Apple fan. It's fun, very well written and quite insightful.
It may be completely invented, but Daniel Lyons has a very sharp look on the real Steve Jobs and his company.
Somehow along the same lines of Accidental Empires Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date, but the fiction angle makes for an even bigger-than-life Steve Jobs !
You'll surely remember many fun and sarcastic quotes after reading.
Although the overall tone is very humorous and you'll have a laugh every 2 pages, it deals with some issues. What happened to the valley entrepreneurship spirit ? How to run a company that used to make computers only, now turning into a media giant ?
The ending is true to its fiction approach and makes for a really good final twist on this great story.
Highly recommended.
Summary of Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs
Welcome to the mind—to the world—of Fake Steve Jobs. Fake Steve the counterintuitive management guru: “Obviously we can?t literally put our employees? lives at risk. But we have to make them feel that way.? Fake Steve the celebrity hobnobber: “I like Bono. He?s the only person I know who?s more self-absorbed than I am.?
Options is the book that had the critics howling—with laughter:
“A voice for our own digital age....Mac-slappingly funny.?—Newsweek.com
“Hilarious.?—New York Times
“There?s a laugh-out-loud moment on nearly each one of the book?s pages.?—Wall Street Journal
“Wickedly funny.?—San Francisco Chronicle
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