Dan Sweeney vs. the Internet

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“An anecdotal story: A friend of mine was at meetings at Apple and Microsoft on the same day. And this was in the last year, so this was recently. He went into the Apple meeting (he’s a vendor for Apple), and as soon as the designers walked in the room, everyone stopped talking, because the designers are the most respected people in the organization. Everyone knows the designers speak for Steve because they have direct reporting to him. It is only at Apple where design reports directly to the CEO. 

Later in the day he was at Microsoft. When he went into the Microsoft meeting, everybody was talking and then the meeting starts and no designers ever walk into the room. All the technical people are sitting there trying to add their ideas of what ought to be in the design. That’s a recipe for disaster. Everyone around him knows he beats to a different drummer. He sets standards that are entirely different than any other CEO would set.”

- John Sculley

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… then just have a look at their “Design a better Gap Logo” contest which currently has over 1000 entries, over 1000 of which are worse than the new Gap logo.

Here.