It’s nonsense to think that the short period that we have seen without Steve Jobs leading Apple indicates that he is not important for Apple’s continuing success. The products that Apple have rolled out since the beginning of Steve Jobs convalescence have most likely been under development for long before that, and any visionary input occurred at an earlier stage still.

To put the article into contrast with some research on the subject: it’s been suggested that it generally takes nearly a decade for a CEO to affect the performance of his company…