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Weird to see all the comments criticizing the mention of Steve Jobs and the use of the word parable instead of people just concentrating on what this post is about, just an anecdote that may or not relate to your leadership style. Who cares of who made it and yes I understand the title was modified to sound more appealing but everything in life is modified to attract attention.

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Welcome to HN. People call out sensational titles all the time.

Replace "Steve Jobs" with "Bill Gates", and you'd have a dozen people mocking the title and no discussion on the post.

If the author wants us to discuss the point he should get to it faster rather than droning on about apple stock and product pipelines.

300 words isn't so much that it's cumbersome to read, but it definitely primed me to think that his point was somehow specific to apple and investing when it wasn't at all. I'm not surprised that people have decided to nitpick it.

Yes but instead of nitpicking to criticize maybe we could use the same skill to filter out the bad parts and get to the good parts. I'm not saying I agree with the way the author presented the information, he thought it was the best way but that doesn't mean I have to completely ignore what he wrote based on that fact. It's pretty obvious to see in this post the relevant part to HN.

Whatever your religion, I think you could recognize that even the best CEOs should not be discussed in the same words and tone as Jesus Christ. This inhibits discussion by distracting and making opinions into holy doctrines when they should be discussed substantively as opinions. We are not absorbing holy teachings of gods here, we are discussing opinions of men which should be evaluated critically.

That's a very interesting perspective. However, I wasn't aware that Jesus Christ or Christianity had some monopoly on the word parable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable

Regardless of the merits of the discussion on the title, it's a great example of how little details matter and getting them wrong can convey something very different from what you intend.

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