14. Stay hungry, stay foolish. Steve Jobs's final leadership lesson and this was that famous line delivered at his Stanford University commencement address in June 2005, 'stay hungry, stay foolish'. Jobs throughout [...]
12. Know both the big picture and the details. Some CEO’s are great at one or the other of these, but very rarely both. It’s simply not the norm to be [...]
8. Impute. Mike Markkula was an early mentor of Jobs and he encouraged three principles for Jobs to work by – EMPATHY, FOCUS AND IMPUTE. For those of you like me [...]
7. Bend Reality. Steve Jobs had an infamous ability to push people to do the impossible, what he dubbed as his ‘reality distortion field’, a Star Trek term that was fictional [...]
6. Don’t be a slave to focus groups This lesson I think is quite fascinating, as it turns a multi-industry function and almost necessity right on its head to say we [...]
3. 'Taking responsibility end to end'. As the title suggests this leadership lesson is about taking control and taking responsibility, we have a conscious choice about everything we do, who we [...]
2. Simplify. Steve Jobs’s second leadership lesson is 'simplify' and with this his skill was about zeroing in on the essence of the Apple products and eliminating all unnecessary components that would [...]
I am not sure if you agree with this, but there is an argument to say that in his lifetime Steve Jobs is someone who has made a huge impact on the world. [...]
