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The New York Times has published a rare look inside Apples secretive training program known as Apple University. New recruits are encouraged to sign up for courses in the program, which was conceived by Steve Jobs in order to ensure that employees are steeped in the companys history and culture. Joel Podolny, Apples VP of human resources and formerly dean of Yale School of Management, founded the program in 2008. Picassos Bull, a series of eleven lithographs in which the master artist deconstructs a bull down to its most abstract form, is shown as inspiration for Apples minimalist design philosophy. You go through more iterations until you can simply deliver your message in a very concise way, and that is true to the Apple brand and everything we do, said the person who took the Communicating at Apple class, taught by Pixar alumnus Randy Nelson