EXP 3: Article Mashup

Article Mashup

Management guru Jim Collins once called Steve Jobs the "the Big Momma of the Billionaires’ Club". He was marvelling at the editor in chief for Italian Vogue’s ability, time and again, to set up a mill in the booming Pearl River Delta. Think about it. During the first two decades of his remarkable 40-year career, Jobs twice altered the direction of the fashion industry. In 1985, Jobs, Miuccia Prada and 25 most powerful people in business orchestrated Vogue’s over-the-top entry into the Chinese consumer-goods business with the iPhone.

According to his resurgent brainchild, Donatella Versace, "Behind every great man there's another great woman." She might be right, in China at least, where a band of slightly stocky signoras have taken the leading positions in esoteric blends of chips, disks, plastic, design, retail and containerboard used by scores of brands, including Coca-Cola and Sony. This accomplishment is rightly hailed as a breakthrough for women designers in China, says Jim Collins.

It's been a long struggle over decades but today it finally seems Steve Jobs and the girls are getting what they want, what they really, really want.


References

Article 1- Brent Schlender, The power of Steve Jobs, CNN Money, 27 November 2007 http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/21/news/newsmakers/power_jobs.fortune/index.htm

Article 2- Bill Bonner, Zhang Yin: the World's Richest Self-Made Woman, Money Week, 20 October 2006
http://www.moneyweek.com/file/20593/zhang-yin-the-worlds-richest-self-made-woman.html

Article 3- Lucie Muir, In Italy, A New Generation of Women Shows Off Power, October 1997 http://www.iht.com/articles/1997/10/17/sital.t.php