Steve Jobs-史蒂夫·乔布斯传

作者：Isaacson Walter

书名：Steve Jobs《史蒂夫·乔布斯传》

中文简介：《史蒂夫·乔布斯传》（英语：Steve Jobs）是沃尔特·艾萨克森撰写的苹果公司共同创办人史提夫·乔布斯生平传记，英文版由西蒙与舒斯特出版社出版。此书获得乔布斯本人授权编写并提供资料，作者也采访了与乔布斯有关的100多名人士。乔布斯本身并未有对自己的传记内容提及任何修改意见，甚至生前连即将完成的书稿都没有看过。封面及封底则由乔布斯本人定稿，照片分别由阿尔伯特·华生（Albert Watson）及诺曼·西夫（Norman Seeff）所拍摄。

英文简介：From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive, New York Times bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.