You need the crazy dictator's ego to suppress the formation of the normal corporate culture of stupid bosses and committees. MBAs and marketing droids are like mosquitoes on a warm summer night near a swamp, and you need eternal vigilance a lot of DEET to keep them away.
The most valuable thing Jobs does is suppress the bozo explosion that invariably occurs at successful companies.
Yes, totally -- but you presuppose that there has to be a large corporation to use passion at all.
To create a perfect global supply chain that produces complex electronic devices -- yes.
But not for lots of other things. You simply don't need the other people to begin with. If there's no middle management, you don't need a crazy genius to suppress its horribleness.
I'm protecting my passion by quitting all client work. :)
