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After three months of working under Jobs, Apple's head of operations decided he could not bear the pressure, and he quit.
在和喬布斯工作了3個(gè)月之后，蘋果公司的運(yùn)營(yíng)主管因?yàn)椴豢皦毫Χo職。
For almost a year Jobs ran operations himself,
在之后將近一年的時(shí)間里，喬布斯親自負(fù)責(zé)運(yùn)營(yíng)，
because all the prospects he interviewed "seemed like they were old-wave manufacturing people," he recalled.
因?yàn)樗J(rèn)為來(lái)面試的人“都是些在生產(chǎn)制造方面觀念陳舊的家伙”，他回憶道。
He wanted someone who could build just-in-time factories and supply chains, as Michael Dell had done.
他想找一個(gè)能夠建立準(zhǔn)時(shí)制工廠和供應(yīng)鏈的人，就像邁克爾·戴爾做的那樣。
Then, in 1998, he met Tim Cook, a courtly thirty-seven-year-old procurement and supply chain manager at Compaq Computers,
1998年，他遇到了蒂姆·庫(kù)克。蒂姆·庫(kù)克37歲，彬彬有禮，當(dāng)時(shí)是康柏計(jì)算機(jī)公司的采購(gòu)和供應(yīng)鏈經(jīng)理，
who not only would become his operations manager but would grow into an indispensable backstage partner in running Apple.
后來(lái)他不僅成為了蘋果公司的運(yùn)營(yíng)經(jīng)理，又逐漸成為運(yùn)營(yíng)蘋果公司不可或缺的幕后搭檔。
As Jobs recalled: Tim Cook came out of procurement, which is just the right background for what we needed.
喬布斯回憶道：蒂姆·庫(kù)克從前是做采購(gòu)的，這恰好是我們所需要的背景。
I realized that he and I saw things exactly the same way.
我發(fā)現(xiàn)，他和我看待問(wèn)題的方式是一樣的。
I had visited a lot of just-in-time factories in Japan, and I' d built one for the Mac and at NeXT.
我在日本參觀過(guò)很多采用準(zhǔn)時(shí)制生產(chǎn)的工廠，也曾為Mac和NeXT建立這樣的工廠。
I knew what I wanted, and I met Tim, and he wanted the same thing.
我知道我想要什么，然后就遇到了蒂姆，他和我想的一樣。
So we started to work together, and before long I trusted him to know exactly what to do.
于是我們就開(kāi)始合作，不久之后，我越發(fā)確信他十分清楚自己該做什么。
He had the same vision I did, and we could interact at a high strategic level,
我們的設(shè)想差不多，我們也可以在高級(jí)戰(zhàn)略的層面上進(jìn)行互動(dòng)，
and I could just forget about a lot of things unless he came and pinged me.
我會(huì)忘記多事，他總是能提醒我。
