Stop deifying Steve Jobs and other assholes. It clouds the picture of leadership.

You can be a good person and still scale a business. Thousands have done it. Maybe we should write more stories about them.

I've already written about how many CEOs and senior leaders are essentially sociopaths, how two-faced they can be, how the PR vehicle of "the CEO pledge" probably means very little, and heck, even once about how it sometimes feels like you need to be an asshole to be a good leader. I personally do not think that, but I think the narrative gets pretty tw…