Benjamin Franklin was skilled at forging collaboration, cooperation, and compromise among the founders—a different style than the intellectual honesty of Steve Jobs—and his role as 'glue' holding people together was essential to building teams even though he was sometimes considered too diplomatic rather than intellectually honest.

factualpending

Speaker

Walter Isaacson

Evidence Quote

ben franklin you know he's somebody who was good at forging collaboration and cooperation pushing compromise smoothing over differences

Source

What You Can Learn From History's Greatest Innovators | Walter Isaacson | The Knowledge Project 121The Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:30:56 PM

My Notes

Loading notes...