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What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 7 Arts and letters 16 Politics and public life 6 Business and finance 2 Technology 4 Sport 6
Read by age Any age Before thirty 1 In their thirties 5 In their forties 7 In their fifties 13 In their sixties 5 Seventy and beyond 10
Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.
Recorded Betsy Morris, Fortune interview, Kona, Hawaii, March 2008 source ↗
Tim Cook Chief executive of Apple
In every way at every turn, the question we ask ourselves is not what can we do, but what should we do?.”
Recorded Duke University Commencement, Duke Today, 13 May 2018 source ↗

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