Eric Jackson reports for Forbes, “In a few years from now, your kids and grandkids will ask you what it was like to be alive when Steve Jobs was the CEO of Apple. They will say: ‘Jobs was the best CEO is business. What was he like? What did you learn from him?'”
“What will your answer be?” Jackson asks.
“It’s human nature to overlook the importance of the here and now. Those who are great and live among us seem more normal because they’re breathing the same air that we are,” Jackson writes. “But, make no mistake, once Steve Jobs is no longer with us, there will be an outpouring of emotion. The tributes will be endless. And there will be collective regret that we weren’t more awake, paying attention, while he was with us.”
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“The wisdom he shared with us at every major speech, or on an earnings call, or in a casual chat put up on YouTube will seem 10 times wiser because he’s no longer with us,” ,” Jackson writes. “So, let’s pause today and try to remind ourselves of some lessons Steve Jobs has taught us all — if we’ve been willing to pay attention.”
The top 10 lessons Steve Jobs can teach us:
1. The most enduring innovations marry art and science
2. To create the future, you can’t do it through focus groups
3. Never fear failure
4. You can’t connect the dots forward – only backward
5. Listen to that voice in the back of your head that tells you if you’re on the right track or not
6. Expect a lot from yourself and others
7. Don’t care about being right. Care about succeeding
8. Find the most talented people to surround yourself with
9. Stay hungry, stay foolish
10. Anything is possible through hard work, determination, and a sense of vision
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
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Bollox!
Bollox to you, bubblebrain.
Some people — this bearded moron, for example — have a strange idea of what’s funny. Why the hell would he waste so much of his own valuable time and try to get us to waste ours, not to mention bandwidth, on stupidity? And further, after he’s done that silly thing, why would mansf come along and post the results in here, where no one gives a shit? It all smacks of too few brain cells seeing out others with similar afflictions.
Yeah, but did you check out SassiBoobs? Those puppies were awesome!
Hindsight is no sight.
Your remark is incredibly lacking in insight. We cannot change the past, but understanding cause and effect (which can only really be done by reflecting on the past) helps shape a better future and (if one is very lucky) adds a drop or two of wisdom to the mix. Not that a flippant knee-jerker would know anything about that.
You can’t connect the dots forward – only backward
A perceived knee- jerk today is vision in retrospect…
Lesson #11: Grandchildren, folks nowadays revere Jobs as a great business leader and innovator. But at the time, so many small-minded people dismissed him as a fraud who didn’t innovate and attributed all his successes to a “cult following” and/or to slick marketing. Come to think of it, many contemporaries also slagged Edison, Einstein, Picasso, the Beatles, Jazz, Rock & Roll, movies, Darwin, Galileo…it always happens.
The lesson: True innovators and trail-blazers are out there in your generation too. Try not to be small-minded.
Innovators and trail-blazers do not live under the protective umbrella of the bell-shaped curve, otherwise known as the land of mediocrity. They live beyond the fringe, fully exposed to the harsh rays of the sun, where inspiration also lives. The masses know nothing of such things and never will
I’ll throw in another: the best focus group is creating products YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO USE. Do that, and you’ll know exactly how to improve them. That’s why Jobs and Woz made their first computer.
Jobs wanted a great phone for himself, so he had the perfect phone made. 😛