Accountability

Steve Jobs to Apple's MobileMe team after the 2008 product launch failed:

He asked the team what MobileMe was supposed to do. Someone answer [sic], and Jobs said to that person (and everyone else), "So why the f*** doesn't it do that?"

He continued, "You've tarnished Apple's reputation ... You should hate each other for having let each other down ... [WSJ tech columnist Walt] Mossberg, our friend, is no longer writing good things about us."

Right there and then he named a new executive to run the MobileMe service....most of the team that built the original service was disbanded.

Steve Jobs could never be an executive in government, which is more a sign of our shortcomings than his.