Postcards

Power Point: What drives Steve Jobs

"There hasn't been a day in Steve's life that he doesn't get up, think about the company he works for, or what he's going to do next. These are things that drive him."

--Bill Campbell, Intuit (INTU) chairman and former CEO, about Steve Jobs--Apple's (AAPL) CEO and Fortune's "CEO of the Decade," on the cover of the current issue. Once Apple's VP of marketing and now on the board, Campbell  claims MORE

Power Point: Get involved in the details

"He's involved in details you wouldn't think a CEO would be involved in."

--Ken Segall, a former Chiat/Day creative director who has worked with Apple (AAPL) on and off for years, talking about Steve Jobs, Fortune's "CEO of the Decade." Jobs commissioned the 1997 "Think different" campaign, says Segall, long before any of Apple's new products were introduced -- or even described to the ad team. "He'd say, 'The third word MORE

Power Point: What would Steve Jobs do?

"The threshold for the release of the first product should be, 'What would Steve Jobs do?'"

-- Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and Netscape co-founder, who often evokes Apple (AAPL)'s maestro CEO in his advice to entrepreneurs. Andreessen is quoted in the Fortune cover package, "Steve Jobs: CEO of the decade," hitting newsstands Friday. Fortune's retrospective of "all things Steve" includes timelines, online photo galleries, and testimonials from Jobs' friends and colleagues. MORE

Are you situationally aware?

Situational awareness: being aware of what's happening around you to understand how information, events, and your own actions will impact your goals and objectives.

This is how Wikipedia defines this concept that's been bandied about a lot lately, since those Northwest (DAL) pilots got distracted on their laptops and flew wayyyy beyond Minneapolis, their destination. Whatever the rogue navigators were viewing or doing on their mini computer screens, they were oblivious MORE

Apple's Steve Jobs: Choose what you do with your life and make it count

"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the [executive team] could be playing golf. They could be running MORE

Power Point: See the possibility

"If you can see the possibility of change in your life -- see the possibility of what you can become and not just what you are -- you will be a huge success."

-- Oprah Winfrey in her address to Duke University grads on Sunday. After picking up an honorary doctor of human letters, Oprah began by quipping: "I'm gonna have everyone call me 'doctor' now."

How did Duke score the media MORE

Power Point: Apple reports record quarterly earnings

"Even in these economically challenging times, we are incredibly pleased to report our best quarterly revenue and earnings in Apple history."

-- Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs in a statement Wednesday. Despite a tough environment for tech, Apple reported first-quarter sales of $10.17 billion, up 6% from a year ago. Analysts were expecting sales of $9.74 billion. The stock jumped 6% on the news and surged another 9% in after-hours trading MORE

This week: Silicon Valley shakeups

Another week of big power shifts. Steve Jobs is the biggest, of course. Hope he recovers and makes it back to Apple (AAPL) in June. As Andy Serwer, Fortune's managing editor and my boss, says, Steve Jobs is the Thomas Edison of our times. He transformed four industries: computers, music, telecom and film. Will any innovator in our lifetimes do better than that?

Jobs also gave the best commencement speech I MORE

Power Point: Steve Jobs discloses illness is serious

"During the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought."

-- Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs in a Wednesday email to employees, explaining that he'll take a leave of absence until the end of June. The news arrives in the wake of his disclosure last week that his extreme weight loss was due to a "hormone imbalance." And that follows another announcement three MORE

Power Point: Understand Jobs' job

"I think that people overstate that [Steve] Jobs designs every single product and every single piece of software. What [Jobs] has done is put the DNA in the company."

-- Daniel Ernst, analyst for Hudson Square Research, to CNNMoney.com in reaction to today's news that Jobs's alarming weight loss is likely due to a hormone imbalance. Actually, Apple's (AAPL) CEO explained his job to Fortune this way in March, 2008: "My MORE