Tim Cook is believed to be Steve Jobs’ successor as CEO at Apple. CNN examines this possibility. On Tim Cook:
One day back then, he convened a meeting with his team, and the discussion turned to a particular problem in Asia. “This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty minutes into that meeting Cook looked at Sabih Khan, a key operations executive, and abruptly asked, without a trace of emotion, “Why are you still here?”
The short of it is, Tim Cook is a hard-ass.