Comment by scarface74
8 years ago
In his story about how Steve Jobs told the engineer point blank to make changes and how impressive it was. I think a lot of people underestimate how effective Steve Jobs was as the CEO because he was Steve Jobs.
A CEO of a company has role power, but that's really the least effective. If the employees don't respect thier managers, the managers can't be effective.
It's usually used by production workers, but developers will also Work-to-Rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule) and do the bare minimum.
I don't know of any non founder CEO that can inspire workers (or investors) to follow them in a completely different direction.
I wonder how long that guy stayed at Apple afterwards, does anyone know?
Why wouldn't he stay? If the decision was technically correct and he may be able to talk to Carmack directly to ask for advice, that would be a rare opportunity to learn.
Edit: oh wait, you're probably asking about the Engineering Directory, not Jim Black.
Jim Black's facebook page says he's VP at Magic Leap, so this must be him:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimblack2
Looks like this was during his second stint at Apple, where he stayed for just 1 year, before going to NVIDIA for 16 years.
He did have a previous stint at Apple from 1992-1997, so 5 years.