Title:  We have wonderful arguments

Tags:   critical thinking, design, equality

Author: Steve Jobs

Date:   06/07/2010

Work Title: D8 Conference

Date Added: 2011-08-30 19:39:19 -0700

Body:

Jobs: What I do all day is meet with teams of people and work on ideas and solve problems to make new products, to make new marketing programs, whatever it is. 

Mossberg: And are people willing to tell you you're wrong? 

Jobs: (laughs) Yeah. 

Mossberg: I mean, other than snarky journalists, I mean people that work for… 

Jobs: Oh, yeah, no we have wonderful arguments. 

Mossberg: And do you win them all? 

Jobs: Oh no I wish I did. No, you see you can't. If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don't stay. 

Mossberg: But you must be more than a facilitator who runs meetings. You obviously contribute your own ideas. 

Jobs: I contribute ideas, sure. Why would I be there if I didn't?
