On the Apple guy's ouster..

Just because an executive is part of a winning team doesn’t mean an individual was the sole reason that team kept winning. A lot of people came together at Apple at precisely the right time and created magic. Similar plot lines unfolded at Google and then at Facebook. It happened at Microsoft and Sun. It is a story that repeats itself, and yet we forget about these magical confluences of luck and talent, and tend to believe in the power of one.

GigaOM: As JC Penney and Ron Johnson just learned, it is always about the team