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Well, it's simplified. This is an LJ post, not a full-length treatise. The reason Pixar is key to understanding Jobs is that, unlike some more self-contained visionaries, he was always able to pick up, absorb, and enable other people's ideas that were compatible to his own, and he certainly did that at Apple. He was always good at giving credit to those who worked with and for him. Some moguls try to give the impression they're one-man shows. If they suddenly disappear from the scene, their companies look rudderless. Apple today doesn't. Which is what I was alluding to by "he made sure that he left his company in ship-shape condition."