Doublethink: APPL buries talent, GOOG promotes it: The importance of public recognition
I am half drunk and listening to Evan Williams’ unintelligible buzz word keynote at sxsw, but this seems really on point.
The thing is that Apple’s hypothetical policies and strategies, while brutal sounding, are in line with historical political strategies for effective power management, which is why Apple is killing it and poised to overtake Microsoft and Google is blowing it with social media.
A really good friend of mine from college recently left a high-profile position at APPL. As background, this guy has been an APPL fanboy since he was 10; in college, he was the only person using a Mac that I knew of in my entire dorm, and he continues to evangelize APPL to this day. Working at…
