[zaidf]

>I think the real question is if someone other than Steve Jobs was running Apple, would they have gone the same way the companies you listed go as well?

John Sculley already answered this, no?

[philistine]

I think the true lesson to learn from the CEOs who weren’t Steve Jobs was that one of them had the foresight to get Steve Jobs back, after he had proven he was a keen leader with NeXt and especially with Pixar.

[phonon]

NeXt was not doing well financially, and neither was Pixar until Toy Story came out. He also did not run Pixar in any meaningful way.