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Steve Jobs and ‘impossible’ goals

invisibleSHIELD case for iPad“In a great documentary on the Apollo program, Eugene Kranz, the flight director of all those missions, reminisces about what had been accomplished during that unique period in American history,” Dan Pallotta writes for Harvard Business Review. “He couldn’t stop crying.”

“I’m typing this week’s post on my new iPad 3G — truly a marvel of imagination, technology, and tenacity,” Pallotta writes. “It’s amazing not just because of the technology itself, but because of all the work building partnerships over the years that went into making it what it is — the negotiations with record labels and movie makers that made iTunes possible, enrolling Time magazine and countless others in its promise, and the nurturing of the network of app developers that helped make the thing the mind-boggling device that it is”

Pallotta writes, “Now, Steve Jobs was thrown out of the company he created. He has waged a fierce battle for his life against pancreatic cancer. He has stared deeply into the abyss of despair one feels when their dreams have been crushed and seem to be gone forever. I may be wrong, but I have to believe that at some point, using his own iPad and measuring the true distance he had come to make it real, Steve Jobs must have found himself crying.”

Full article- recommended – here.

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