In today's video blog, Austin discusses how Apple is organized for innovation, starting with the history of Apple's management structure. Then, he finds out how Tim Cook is changing that structure. Finally, Mr. Ha explains the details of just how that works.

Music
_Egmont Overture_ by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Chapters
00:00 Vision Products Group
01:00 Steve's management strategy at Apple
02:42 Apple's functional structure and auteur theory
03:49 Functional organizations align expertise and control
05:03 Apple's three functional leadership characteristics
05:13 (1) Deep expertise
05:29 (2) Immersion in the details
06:20 (3) Willingness to collaboratively debate
07:47 Functional organizations struggle with decision congestion
09:42 Tim Cook scales things
12:25 Technology Development Group ⇒ Vision Products Group
15:09 Tim Cook is creating divisions at Apple
15:54 How divisions change Apple's leadership model
18:01 The quality of any collaborative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever has final cut
20:04 Chalk Talk: Apple's Discretionary leadership model