Why Steve Jobs loved being a CEO

"He told me once that part of the reason he wanted to be CEO was so that nobody could tell him that he wasn't allowed to participate in the nitty-gritty of product design," Reid writes. "He was right there in the middle of it. All of it. As a team member, not as CEO. He quietly left his CEO hat by the door, and collaborated with us."

Now, several years later, Reid says what he remembers most about Jobs was his love for designing and shipping products. "None of the magic that has become Apple would have ever happened if he were simply a CEO," Reid writes. "Steve's magic recipe was that he was a product designer at his core, who was smart enough to know that the best way to design products was to have the magic wand of CEO in one of your hands."