Technology has been a consistent bright spot in the U.S. economy over the past few years, and no company has epitomized that better than Apple. Perhaps that's why business schools and leadership coaches have been talking in recent months about what management lessons should be taken from Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, which provided an anthropological look at the habits of the most famous CEO since GE's "Neutron Jack" Welch. In it, Jobs is revealed as both an autocratic bully and a business genius who executed the most successful corporate turnaround so far this century.
Perhaps the book should be...