In this brief commentary, the speaker reveals a little‑known aspect of Steve Jobs' leadership at Apple: a secret elite group called “the 100.” Jobs hand‑picked the 100 employees who were best at getting things done, regardless of seniority, to keep Apple operating with the speed and agility of a startup. The speaker draws a leadership lesson from this practice, urging managers to identify and rely on the people in their own organizations who truly make things happen.
The secret organization that Steve Jobs created in Apple. Do you know about this organization? Never heard about it until now. Big companies move slowly, but Steve Jobs had a unique way of making sure Apple operated as quickly as a startup. His secret? It's a group called the 100. The 100 was an elite group of Apple employees chosen by Jobs himself. It wasn't the 100 most senior people necessarily. It was the top 100 people who could get things done. I think my lesson here is to really find out who are the people that actually get things done in your company, because there are people that just make things happen, right?
