Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
I read Steve Jobs when I was in high school, and I still
remember most of the detail stories from this book. Even though I read it in the other
language version, but Steve Jobs’s entrepreneur spirit still correctly express
to readers.
What surprised you the most?
The most surprising thing is how Steve Jobs persuaded John Sculley, Pepsi president,
to work for him and Apple. Steve asked John, “Do you prefer to sell sugar water
for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?”.
What about the entrepreneur did you most admire?
The pursuit of perfection. Steve Jobs made Apple products perfect. When he created MacBook
Air, he asked his team to do it perfectly although most of his engineers thought
it was impossible to make a laptop as thin as an envelope. But Steve Jobs made it
and changed the definition of a laptop.
What about the entrepreneur did you least admire?
Steve
Jobs complain Bill Gates’ windows OS is shit. Steve is a little bit aggressive
also when he tried to “kill” Android.
Did the entrepreneur encounter adversity and failure? If
so, what did they do about it?
Steve
never give up. He doesn’t know what is give up. When he got kicked from Apple
by John Sculley, he made NeXT and PIXAR Animation Studios. He always had creative ideas and executed.
What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur
exhibited?
Steve is
good at identifying opportunities, and the iPad is a good example to prove it. Steve
identified what customers and the market will need. Between big MacBook and small iPhone,
there was missing one product between it, therefore, the iPad showed up.
Identify at least one part of the reading that was
confusing to you.
Why Steve
refused to do a cancer surgery on time.
If you were able to ask two questions to the
entrepreneur, what would you ask? Why?
1.
Do you want to invite John Sculley to be CEO
again at that time?
2.
How can you make impossible to be possible?
For fun: what do you think the entrepreneur's opinion was
of hard work? Do you share that opinion?
Hard
working is not all. We need to think and then work in the right direction.
Hey Don! I enjoyed reading your post about Steve Jobs as he is one of the greatest role models to entrepreneurs and the general public. Everyone knows who he is and what he had accomplished. I think that it was interesting how he persuaded the president of Pepsi to come and work with him on something that the world did not believe in. He was a hardworking and inspiring person to all. Good post!
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ReplyDeleteIt was nice getting to hear about another entrepreneurs story from the one I read about myself. Obviously Steve Jobs is one of the most notorious that our generation has seen. His products and brand have become so common that their names have come to define product categories. I found it interesting that he had such aggressive and negative views of his competition in Windows and Android. I never would have guessed that from my prior knowledge.
Hey Don, I enjoyed reading your post. I didn't know Steve Jobs accomplished so much in his lifetime. The way that he thought of stuff is really mind blowing. For example, how he came up with ipad which is between a phone and a computer. I find it really funny how Steve Job tried to shut down Android. After reading this, it is pretty evident that Steve Job accomplished a lot of great things.
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