A chair crashed on the tile floor as a skinny young man rushed over to our table at Michela's, a hot restaurant in Cambridge, Mass. It was Steve Jobs, then just 29 years old, and his haste was not to meet me but to salute my guest, Polaroid founder Edwin Land. I was surprised to see how enthusiastically the enfant terrible greeted the 76-year-old Land. I was even more surprised that Land didn't recognize Jobs. He awkwardly returned Jobs's greeting by introducing me: "This is Dr. Sonnenfeld... an expert in CEO succession...you know, drawing organization charts with lots of boxes.
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