Thursday, July 29, 2010
After watching the movie "Pirates of the Silicon Valley",
1. What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
note: at least 1000 words for every question.....
1. Let me first discuss and summarize the movie. The film, Pirates of the Silicon Valley is about the beginning of Apple and Microsoft. Steve Jobs' Apple is birthed out of Berkley in the days of beards and love beads. Jobs together with his buddy Steve Wozniak created a small computer they've invented which is causing a lot of excitement. The little computers that they create were a boom. They get many orders and earn lots of money. When they already have enough money to establish a company, they created the Apple Company which is a booming company. On the other hand Bill Gates also create an operating system and they licensed their Disk Operating System to IBM. Soon they're making a lot of money, but not as much as Apple. Apple Company steals the graphical user interface of the Xerox’s Company. But later on the Microsoft also steal the Graphical User Interface of Apple. After seeing the seeing the film, we saw the success and failure of Steve Job as Technoprenuer.
SUCCESS
There were many factors that affects on how he succeed and failed in his field. These factors are:
Good Communication Skills. A good communication skill is a skill where in communicate and deliver a message to others effectively. This skill is the one most important that anyone must have especially if you are making a business. We can see that Steve Job uses his good communication skill in order to deliver and introduce his work. He prepares carefully on what he wants to deliver to the people. Even he is prepare everytime he do have a conversation, but still he looks natural as if he is just having a conversation. It is not important that there should be a formal conversation, but the most important thing is that you deliver clearly the message you want to imply and the person you are communicating understand what you are saying.
Charisma. Steve Jobs is being famous n how he give speeches and get the attention of his audience. Steve Jobs is indeed a best speaker with a mysterious ability to make his employees and his audience to leave speechless with his convincing delivery. It enables him to beat up the eagerness of his employees to achieve more like dong an impossible task. He also easily convinces the customers to buy Apple products.
Enthusiasm. As a technoprenuer a very important thing that you consider is that you should have an interest in the business that you are entered. Like Steve Jobs, he is interested in computers and technology. This would make a great factor in order that you can make your company become successful. Everytime you have interest on a certain thing, you are eager to learn.
Extraversion. Steve Jobs easily expresses his emotions. He is not drained by social interaction, even though there are problems that he encounters still he smiles a lot and always believes that most people like him. Since he is the employer he likes to lead his business.
Assertiveness. The description of how he runs meetings and the aggression with which he motivates his employees speaks for a high degree of assertiveness.
Knowledge
This aspect is important, Even Steve Jobs was a drop out but I can say the he has knowledge. It is not necessary that you should go into a formal school in order to gain knowledge but it’s just a way in order that you gain more knowledge and understand it well. Steve Jobs was able to perform well in his chosen field especially this field requires a great knowledge in order to understand all of the technology. To define what knowledge should acquire to be capable in this field. However it can be acquired and improved from work experience and practical training. The most effective form of skill building is through practical exercises.
Failure
Even Steve Jobs is successful on what have now, but still, he was also failed. These are the reason why Steve Jobs was failed before.
Personal Life. As a business man you should bear in mind that you should separate your personal life into business. As what they say that business is business. Then you should not put your personal life in your business. It will just put you in a tough decision. Like Steve Jobs, he put his personal life in business.
Easily Trust. Trust important in business, but on the part of Steve Jobs he easily trusted Bill Gates even he already knows that Bill Gates had a plan on getting his idea.
Temperamental Manager. Steve Jobs employee is describing him in this manner. Being a short tempered person you will easily get angered. In the field of business it is necessary that you should have patience. When you don’t have patience like Steve Jobs, you are easily got angered on just a little mistake. On the video, Pirates of the Silicon Valley, we see that Steve Jobs always scolding his workers and employee that create a protest against him.
Erratic. Steve Jobs should focus on improving his erratic attitude. He does not maintain an even keel nor react even a situation is flowing without thinking about his reactions affect other people.
I think there is some truth to what Wright is saying here—everything that Jobs has ever done in his career has suggested that he loves great products more than market share. (Though I'm sure he's happier with both.) But I think there is another factor here worth considering.
I'm not so sure that Jobs thinks his Macintosh strategy failed. I think the way Jobs looks at it is this: he built a beautiful, revolutionary machine in the Macintosh, attracted incredible hype for it and passionate early adopters.
And then he got fired.
I'm sure somewhere in Jobs' head he thinks that if he had been running Apple instead of John Sculley, the Mac could have out-innovated and out-marketed Microsoft through the late eighties and early nineties, and kept Windows from dominating the planet. In other words, it wasn't that Apple erred in following the closed platform strategy. They erred in that they had the wrong guy running the company. That may well be delusional, but the fact that AAPL now has a larger market cap than MSFT, twelve years after Jobs' return to Apple, has to give one pause. So in Jobs' mind, I suspect it's not that he's making the same mistake all over again. Instead, he's proving that his original decision wasn't a mistake in the first place.
Source:
http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2010/06/is-steve-jobs-repeating-his-past-mistakes.html
2. I can see my self as a technoprenuer that I will be successful if I will enter in this kind of business. When I was a child, I am already a business minded person. Honestly, I together with my sisters and brother established a just a small business where we sell vegetables and spices since my grandfather do have a small farm. I can say that it’s not a failure but it just so happen that we did not pursue it because we were still studying at that time and we cannot focus on our little business. This is just my first time to hear the world technoprenuership. I was right that it is somewhat related to entrepreneurship but the difference is that the business that your going to establish is much focused on Technology. I was interested in this kind of subject. Indeed it would fit me because I was really planning to establish a business of my own. I don’t want to be an employee on a certain company because I don’t want that someone will tell me that I should to those things.
Since I am undergoing in the subject technoprenuership this would enhance my skills and would much understand more about business about technology which also fits my course.
I want to be rich. Someone told me that it is not enough that you should only be an employee of a certain company. No one has been rich because of being an employee. The salary that you have is just enough to support your needs like food and other expenses. Unlike establishing your own company, you can do what ever you want to do in your company. No one can dictate you what you should do since you are the owner of it.
Technoprenuership is the key to earn money through technology. Technoprenuership is about technology and entrepreneurship, where it means business. People are really struggling for survival but they don't know that the stuffs that could save them from annihilation and broke just beside them. One example of being and technoprenuer is by blogging. Yes it only beside on you, you only need a computer and an internet connection.
In technoprenuership there are also fields on it. You will be the one to choose on what you would like to do in this kind of business. For me, I can say that I will be successful in terns of blogging. As of now I’m starting now to create a blog site. I cannot say that it is not yet successful but I’m earning from it. This would be the start of my journey of being a technoprenuer.
As of now people get higher income when they come in technoprenuership. But worst of it is that lots of people don't see this stuff and have no plan for their future to be a technoprenuer. But first thing's first, There are lots of offers in the internet, ranging from advertising to affiliate business to freelance writing and now how could you say it's impossible to do. Many wise people say, "Whether you think you can or you think you cannot, either way you're right." There are many opportunities in the internet that you could earn from. Or you would use anything that is a masterpiece of technology.
On the other side, technoprenuership does not only deal on having business on the internet. I can also establish a company that focuses on the hardware or on the new device. Services will also be a good start. You don’t need a much bigger capital in order to start up this business. Just your skills and talent is needed in order to start this business.
Technoprenuership encompasses not only technology organizations but also organizations that embrace technology significantly and it seeks to promote creativity and innovations within organizations and organizations as entities. Various programmes and initiatives which you can find in this website are undertaken to crystallize the vision into reality. I can build my own company and have many loyal employees.
The only constant in life is change. Nothing stands still. Life is dynamic and not static. Yet there are those of us who, through an exercise in futility, will seek to find security in an inexistent status quo.
I can also say that I will undergo some challenges to become a successful technoprenuer. I can say this when it comes to money. Even though you only have a small business but still money is involve. Being a technoprenuer takes a lot of determination and patience in order to become one. However, even though I’m still in the stage of learning, I can say that I have the potential and capacity of becoming a successful technoprenuer.
I have observed that technoprenuership now is booming and have brought and encounter new challenges. This is starting to increase of globalization, the advocates of information technology that concerns in implementing in the field of technoprenuership. Thus, this would broaden the competition among all other IT professionals in the next decade.
I really dream to be manager and manage people. I want it because I do want to contribute to the success of the company. You might say that even a simple employee can contribute to that success but the level of contribution really matters. That’s what I believe. I want to provide jobs to the needy and equip them with the proper training needed. I also want to implement a reward system that would motivate the employees to work hard and eager to contribute to the company’s success.
For the growth of the company, I with my co-decision makers should foresee the possible demands of the clients and the possible changes. On the other hand, the company’s equity should allot a budget for our own foundation or encourage our employees to give some of to the existing foundations. I would be a successful technoprenuer to a manager of the company and provide the employees and the company itself the necessary solutions for the crucial problems and situations.
3. Everyone us has the right to choose what path that we should take. You can be a technoprenuer or you can be a just a simple employee and receiving salary every month. Following the path of Steve Job would be great if oyu want to be a technoprenuer especially when you want to become successful. Even though Steve Jobs was been failed but considering on his success, he has a good path to success. He is a good business man. If you know Steve Jobs, he is really a successful technoprenuer. Even he failed but still he never gives up and takes a risk in order to be successful again.
I would like to be like Steve Job who will take risk just to get what he wants. He never quits. I will follow Steve Jobs especially in business talking. He knows what to do. He does have a good communication skills that make those people to be convince.
As of October 2009, Jobs owns 5.426 million shares of Apple, most of which was granted in 2003 when Jobs was given 10 million shares. He also owns 138 million shares of Disney, which he received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar.
In 2001, Steve Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30, which allegedly should have been $21.10, thereby incurring taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report as income. This indicated backdating. Apple overstated its earnings by that same amount. If found liable, Jobs might have faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. Apple claimed that the options were originally granted at a special board meeting that may never have taken place. Furthermore, the investigation is focusing on false dating of the options resulting in a retroactive $20 million increase in the exercise price. The case is the subject of active criminal and civil government investigations, though an independent internal Apple investigation completed on December 29, 2006 found that Jobs was unaware of these issues and that the options granted to him were returned without being exercised in 2003.On July 1, 2008 a $7 billion class action suit was filed against several members of the Apple Board of Directors for revenue lost due to the alleged securities fraud.
As we can see Steve does have a huge income. It’s because of his hardships. That’s the attitude that I would like to have. Steve also has an attitude of being a short tempered person. For me, I don’t want to follow on how he handles his employees. I prefer to make them close to me. In that case I can easily asked them if what are the problems that that have in my company.
These four words represent an entire philosophy for a successful life. They mean that, if we want a successful, rewarding and interesting life, we should be in the parade and not watching the parade go by.
The only constant in life is change. Nothing stands still. Life is dynamic and not static. Yet there are those of us who, through an exercise in futility, will seek to find security in an inexistent status quo.
Don't make waves, don't try anything and keep a low profile attitude is a recipe for boredom in the best case scenario and for disaster in the worst cases. Trying to stand still in life is impossibility and can only result in frustration, regression and ultimate failure.
Do what you love to do. Find your true passion. Do what you love to do a make a difference! The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The Power of Passion
Be different. Think different. "Better be a pirate than to join the navy."
Do your best. Do your best at every job. No sleep! Success generates more success. So be hungry for it. Hire good people with passion for excellence.
Make SWOT analysis. As soon as you join/start a company, make a list of strengths and weaknesses of yourself and your company on a piece of paper. Don't hesitate in throwing bad apples out of the company.
Be entrepreneurial. Look for the next big thing. Find a set of ideas that need to be quickly and decisively acted upon and jump through that window. Sometimes the first step is the hardest one. Just take it! Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Entrepreneurial Leader: 4 Specific Attributes
Start small, think big. Don't worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. "I want to put a ding in the universe,” reveal Steve Jobs his dream.
Strive to become a market leader. Own and control the primary technology in everything you do. If there's a better technology available, use it no matter if anyone else is not using it. Be the first, and make it an industry standard.
3 Strategies of Market Leaders
Focus on the outcome. People judge you by your performance, so focus on the outcome. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Advertise. If they don't know it, they won't buy your product. Pay attention to design. "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them." "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Ask for feedback. Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources. Focus on those who will use your product – listen to your customers first.
Innovate. Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower. Delegate, let other top executives do 50% of your routine work to be able to spend 50% your time on the new stuff. Say no to 1,000 things to make sure you don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. Concentrate on really important creations and radical innovation. Hire people who want to make the best things in the world. You need a very product-oriented culture, even in a technology company. Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart people. But ultimately, there needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all together.
Learn from failures. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Learn continually. There's always "one more thing" to learn! Cross-pollinate ideas with others both within and outside your company. Learn from customers, competitors and partners. If you partner with someone whom you don't like, learn to like them – praise them and benefit from them. Learn to criticize your enemies openly, but honestly.
Source:
http://www.1000advices.com/guru/leader_corporate_12_success_rules_sj.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?Advice-From-Steve-Jobs---Stay-Hungry---Stay-Foolish&id=2245717
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
1. What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?
3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?
note: at least 1000 words for every question.....
1. Let me first discuss and summarize the movie. The film, Pirates of the Silicon Valley is about the beginning of Apple and Microsoft. Steve Jobs' Apple is birthed out of Berkley in the days of beards and love beads. Jobs together with his buddy Steve Wozniak created a small computer they've invented which is causing a lot of excitement. The little computers that they create were a boom. They get many orders and earn lots of money. When they already have enough money to establish a company, they created the Apple Company which is a booming company. On the other hand Bill Gates also create an operating system and they licensed their Disk Operating System to IBM. Soon they're making a lot of money, but not as much as Apple. Apple Company steals the graphical user interface of the Xerox’s Company. But later on the Microsoft also steal the Graphical User Interface of Apple. After seeing the seeing the film, we saw the success and failure of Steve Job as Technoprenuer.
SUCCESS
There were many factors that affects on how he succeed and failed in his field. These factors are:
Good Communication Skills. A good communication skill is a skill where in communicate and deliver a message to others effectively. This skill is the one most important that anyone must have especially if you are making a business. We can see that Steve Job uses his good communication skill in order to deliver and introduce his work. He prepares carefully on what he wants to deliver to the people. Even he is prepare everytime he do have a conversation, but still he looks natural as if he is just having a conversation. It is not important that there should be a formal conversation, but the most important thing is that you deliver clearly the message you want to imply and the person you are communicating understand what you are saying.
Charisma. Steve Jobs is being famous n how he give speeches and get the attention of his audience. Steve Jobs is indeed a best speaker with a mysterious ability to make his employees and his audience to leave speechless with his convincing delivery. It enables him to beat up the eagerness of his employees to achieve more like dong an impossible task. He also easily convinces the customers to buy Apple products.
Enthusiasm. As a technoprenuer a very important thing that you consider is that you should have an interest in the business that you are entered. Like Steve Jobs, he is interested in computers and technology. This would make a great factor in order that you can make your company become successful. Everytime you have interest on a certain thing, you are eager to learn.
Extraversion. Steve Jobs easily expresses his emotions. He is not drained by social interaction, even though there are problems that he encounters still he smiles a lot and always believes that most people like him. Since he is the employer he likes to lead his business.
Assertiveness. The description of how he runs meetings and the aggression with which he motivates his employees speaks for a high degree of assertiveness.
Knowledge
This aspect is important, Even Steve Jobs was a drop out but I can say the he has knowledge. It is not necessary that you should go into a formal school in order to gain knowledge but it’s just a way in order that you gain more knowledge and understand it well. Steve Jobs was able to perform well in his chosen field especially this field requires a great knowledge in order to understand all of the technology. To define what knowledge should acquire to be capable in this field. However it can be acquired and improved from work experience and practical training. The most effective form of skill building is through practical exercises.
Failure
Even Steve Jobs is successful on what have now, but still, he was also failed. These are the reason why Steve Jobs was failed before.
Personal Life. As a business man you should bear in mind that you should separate your personal life into business. As what they say that business is business. Then you should not put your personal life in your business. It will just put you in a tough decision. Like Steve Jobs, he put his personal life in business.
Easily Trust. Trust important in business, but on the part of Steve Jobs he easily trusted Bill Gates even he already knows that Bill Gates had a plan on getting his idea.
Temperamental Manager. Steve Jobs employee is describing him in this manner. Being a short tempered person you will easily get angered. In the field of business it is necessary that you should have patience. When you don’t have patience like Steve Jobs, you are easily got angered on just a little mistake. On the video, Pirates of the Silicon Valley, we see that Steve Jobs always scolding his workers and employee that create a protest against him.
Erratic. Steve Jobs should focus on improving his erratic attitude. He does not maintain an even keel nor react even a situation is flowing without thinking about his reactions affect other people.
I think there is some truth to what Wright is saying here—everything that Jobs has ever done in his career has suggested that he loves great products more than market share. (Though I'm sure he's happier with both.) But I think there is another factor here worth considering.
I'm not so sure that Jobs thinks his Macintosh strategy failed. I think the way Jobs looks at it is this: he built a beautiful, revolutionary machine in the Macintosh, attracted incredible hype for it and passionate early adopters.
And then he got fired.
I'm sure somewhere in Jobs' head he thinks that if he had been running Apple instead of John Sculley, the Mac could have out-innovated and out-marketed Microsoft through the late eighties and early nineties, and kept Windows from dominating the planet. In other words, it wasn't that Apple erred in following the closed platform strategy. They erred in that they had the wrong guy running the company. That may well be delusional, but the fact that AAPL now has a larger market cap than MSFT, twelve years after Jobs' return to Apple, has to give one pause. So in Jobs' mind, I suspect it's not that he's making the same mistake all over again. Instead, he's proving that his original decision wasn't a mistake in the first place.
Source:
http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2010/06/is-steve-jobs-repeating-his-past-mistakes.html
2. I can see my self as a technoprenuer that I will be successful if I will enter in this kind of business. When I was a child, I am already a business minded person. Honestly, I together with my sisters and brother established a just a small business where we sell vegetables and spices since my grandfather do have a small farm. I can say that it’s not a failure but it just so happen that we did not pursue it because we were still studying at that time and we cannot focus on our little business. This is just my first time to hear the world technoprenuership. I was right that it is somewhat related to entrepreneurship but the difference is that the business that your going to establish is much focused on Technology. I was interested in this kind of subject. Indeed it would fit me because I was really planning to establish a business of my own. I don’t want to be an employee on a certain company because I don’t want that someone will tell me that I should to those things.
Since I am undergoing in the subject technoprenuership this would enhance my skills and would much understand more about business about technology which also fits my course.
I want to be rich. Someone told me that it is not enough that you should only be an employee of a certain company. No one has been rich because of being an employee. The salary that you have is just enough to support your needs like food and other expenses. Unlike establishing your own company, you can do what ever you want to do in your company. No one can dictate you what you should do since you are the owner of it.
Technoprenuership is the key to earn money through technology. Technoprenuership is about technology and entrepreneurship, where it means business. People are really struggling for survival but they don't know that the stuffs that could save them from annihilation and broke just beside them. One example of being and technoprenuer is by blogging. Yes it only beside on you, you only need a computer and an internet connection.
In technoprenuership there are also fields on it. You will be the one to choose on what you would like to do in this kind of business. For me, I can say that I will be successful in terns of blogging. As of now I’m starting now to create a blog site. I cannot say that it is not yet successful but I’m earning from it. This would be the start of my journey of being a technoprenuer.
As of now people get higher income when they come in technoprenuership. But worst of it is that lots of people don't see this stuff and have no plan for their future to be a technoprenuer. But first thing's first, There are lots of offers in the internet, ranging from advertising to affiliate business to freelance writing and now how could you say it's impossible to do. Many wise people say, "Whether you think you can or you think you cannot, either way you're right." There are many opportunities in the internet that you could earn from. Or you would use anything that is a masterpiece of technology.
On the other side, technoprenuership does not only deal on having business on the internet. I can also establish a company that focuses on the hardware or on the new device. Services will also be a good start. You don’t need a much bigger capital in order to start up this business. Just your skills and talent is needed in order to start this business.
Technoprenuership encompasses not only technology organizations but also organizations that embrace technology significantly and it seeks to promote creativity and innovations within organizations and organizations as entities. Various programmes and initiatives which you can find in this website are undertaken to crystallize the vision into reality. I can build my own company and have many loyal employees.
The only constant in life is change. Nothing stands still. Life is dynamic and not static. Yet there are those of us who, through an exercise in futility, will seek to find security in an inexistent status quo.
I can also say that I will undergo some challenges to become a successful technoprenuer. I can say this when it comes to money. Even though you only have a small business but still money is involve. Being a technoprenuer takes a lot of determination and patience in order to become one. However, even though I’m still in the stage of learning, I can say that I have the potential and capacity of becoming a successful technoprenuer.
I have observed that technoprenuership now is booming and have brought and encounter new challenges. This is starting to increase of globalization, the advocates of information technology that concerns in implementing in the field of technoprenuership. Thus, this would broaden the competition among all other IT professionals in the next decade.
I really dream to be manager and manage people. I want it because I do want to contribute to the success of the company. You might say that even a simple employee can contribute to that success but the level of contribution really matters. That’s what I believe. I want to provide jobs to the needy and equip them with the proper training needed. I also want to implement a reward system that would motivate the employees to work hard and eager to contribute to the company’s success.
For the growth of the company, I with my co-decision makers should foresee the possible demands of the clients and the possible changes. On the other hand, the company’s equity should allot a budget for our own foundation or encourage our employees to give some of to the existing foundations. I would be a successful technoprenuer to a manager of the company and provide the employees and the company itself the necessary solutions for the crucial problems and situations.
3. Everyone us has the right to choose what path that we should take. You can be a technoprenuer or you can be a just a simple employee and receiving salary every month. Following the path of Steve Job would be great if oyu want to be a technoprenuer especially when you want to become successful. Even though Steve Jobs was been failed but considering on his success, he has a good path to success. He is a good business man. If you know Steve Jobs, he is really a successful technoprenuer. Even he failed but still he never gives up and takes a risk in order to be successful again.
I would like to be like Steve Job who will take risk just to get what he wants. He never quits. I will follow Steve Jobs especially in business talking. He knows what to do. He does have a good communication skills that make those people to be convince.
As of October 2009, Jobs owns 5.426 million shares of Apple, most of which was granted in 2003 when Jobs was given 10 million shares. He also owns 138 million shares of Disney, which he received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar.
In 2001, Steve Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30, which allegedly should have been $21.10, thereby incurring taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report as income. This indicated backdating. Apple overstated its earnings by that same amount. If found liable, Jobs might have faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. Apple claimed that the options were originally granted at a special board meeting that may never have taken place. Furthermore, the investigation is focusing on false dating of the options resulting in a retroactive $20 million increase in the exercise price. The case is the subject of active criminal and civil government investigations, though an independent internal Apple investigation completed on December 29, 2006 found that Jobs was unaware of these issues and that the options granted to him were returned without being exercised in 2003.On July 1, 2008 a $7 billion class action suit was filed against several members of the Apple Board of Directors for revenue lost due to the alleged securities fraud.
As we can see Steve does have a huge income. It’s because of his hardships. That’s the attitude that I would like to have. Steve also has an attitude of being a short tempered person. For me, I don’t want to follow on how he handles his employees. I prefer to make them close to me. In that case I can easily asked them if what are the problems that that have in my company.
These four words represent an entire philosophy for a successful life. They mean that, if we want a successful, rewarding and interesting life, we should be in the parade and not watching the parade go by.
The only constant in life is change. Nothing stands still. Life is dynamic and not static. Yet there are those of us who, through an exercise in futility, will seek to find security in an inexistent status quo.
Don't make waves, don't try anything and keep a low profile attitude is a recipe for boredom in the best case scenario and for disaster in the worst cases. Trying to stand still in life is impossibility and can only result in frustration, regression and ultimate failure.
Do what you love to do. Find your true passion. Do what you love to do a make a difference! The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The Power of Passion
Be different. Think different. "Better be a pirate than to join the navy."
Do your best. Do your best at every job. No sleep! Success generates more success. So be hungry for it. Hire good people with passion for excellence.
Make SWOT analysis. As soon as you join/start a company, make a list of strengths and weaknesses of yourself and your company on a piece of paper. Don't hesitate in throwing bad apples out of the company.
Be entrepreneurial. Look for the next big thing. Find a set of ideas that need to be quickly and decisively acted upon and jump through that window. Sometimes the first step is the hardest one. Just take it! Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Entrepreneurial Leader: 4 Specific Attributes
Start small, think big. Don't worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. "I want to put a ding in the universe,” reveal Steve Jobs his dream.
Strive to become a market leader. Own and control the primary technology in everything you do. If there's a better technology available, use it no matter if anyone else is not using it. Be the first, and make it an industry standard.
3 Strategies of Market Leaders
Focus on the outcome. People judge you by your performance, so focus on the outcome. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Advertise. If they don't know it, they won't buy your product. Pay attention to design. "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them." "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Ask for feedback. Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources. Focus on those who will use your product – listen to your customers first.
Innovate. Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower. Delegate, let other top executives do 50% of your routine work to be able to spend 50% your time on the new stuff. Say no to 1,000 things to make sure you don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. Concentrate on really important creations and radical innovation. Hire people who want to make the best things in the world. You need a very product-oriented culture, even in a technology company. Lots of companies have tons of great engineers and smart people. But ultimately, there needs to be some gravitational force that pulls it all together.
Learn from failures. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Learn continually. There's always "one more thing" to learn! Cross-pollinate ideas with others both within and outside your company. Learn from customers, competitors and partners. If you partner with someone whom you don't like, learn to like them – praise them and benefit from them. Learn to criticize your enemies openly, but honestly.
Source:
http://www.1000advices.com/guru/leader_corporate_12_success_rules_sj.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?Advice-From-Steve-Jobs---Stay-Hungry---Stay-Foolish&id=2245717
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
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