The Really Really Big Picture of What Is Happening On Wall Street Today!
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The rest of the story, and the true beginning of the end for Industrial Age management is when Jobs was brought back at $1 per year to save his creation: His idea of what a company was supposed to be—a group of insanely great guys, building the most incredible thing imaginable. Something he had been told by Wall Street was a fluke, and needed a real businessman to manage.

Wall Street of course was following a law of "good, old fashioned" industrializing. That was, "I am the Captain of Industry, and you but a foot soldier." Remember that the Industrial Age system rose out of the abusive social classes of United Kingdom (also a lie) of the time. With new mass production machines in place, old money capitalization required enticing workers down out of the hills, to put part "A" on part "B". The extension of this today, of course is "I am so intelligent, so wise, so connected, I am worth 600 times the annual salary of you average worker-drone. Even after I take the company into bankruptcy, thanks to my "golden parachute" position."

This arrogance is being overturned in the Age of Intelligence in that a lot of "pointy hair bosses," have had to ask how to turn on "A" to get to "B" on the Information Highway. Scully, polishing the outside of the apple, didnít value the core, cause he didn't understand how important intelligent share-the-excitement workers really were to the product. How could he, drawing his excessive stockholder dictated salary—"This is how it works—we pay you big bucks, so you pay us big dividends."

One of the first things Scully did when in power was to do away with the etched signatures of the Macintosh team that were only visible when the Mac Plus case was popped with a special tool for servicing. It cost Apple nothing to recognize these creators, other than the fact that the Information Age needed intelligent workers, that heavens forbid, wanted to share in the same rewards promised Wall Street.