
[Biz] Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field
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The Reality Distortion Field, Double Edged Sword
Sophoware manager calmly explained the situation to jobs, while hertzfeld and others huddled around the speaker phone holding their breath. There's no way were slipping, he declared. You guys have been working on this stuff for months now. Another couple of weeks isn't going to make that much of a difference. I'm going to ship the code a week from monday with your names on it. And a that is kind of a motivational technique combined with a threat. But it worked. They worke non stop for the next two weeks, and they got the mackintosh software ready to ship on time. So again, reality distortion field, double edged sword. In fact
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