But at least Lee Iacocca, for instance, had a Ford Mustang to show for his efforts, and a spate of competitors who did, in fact, need to be vanquished. The same, of course, could be said about all business biographies: nearly every story of fortune comes down to luck and timing. But what really separated all the losers from those who had been able to amass a large fortune was a whole lot of lucky breaks in a row. Most of them, it turned out, were far more broke than they let on. Once you get past all the wealth, the erratic habits, and the self-mythologizing, how does a responsible author account for the subject’s success? Earlier in my career, I wrote quite a bit about the poker world, and after a while I came to the realization that, for the vast majority of so-called geniuses, there wasn’t some magical system that allowed them to print money at casinos or sports books. The tech mogul presents the same biographical problem as the professional gambler.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |