In this never before seen interview, a younger Steve Jobs gave a rare glimpse of his vision of the world...
Steve Jobs:
When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money...
That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader. Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you called life was made up by people who were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use...
Once you learnt that, you'll never be the same again.
Jonathan Rosenberg was Google Inc. Senior Vice President. Prior to joining Google in 2002, he was a founding member of @Home's product group and served as Senior Vice President after the merger of @Home and Excite. Prior to that, he managed the eWorld product line for Apple Computer. And prior to that, he was the director of product marketing for Knight Ridder Information Services.
Jonathan Rosenberg:
Fostering innovation, 5 rules. So how do we foster this innovation? Most companies manage creativity in order to manage risk, that just doesn't work. Do we have an artist here today? Go do your art from 10 to 12 and be very creative, 12 to 4 is the management meeting. It doesn't work. Innovation comes from creativity, creativity cannot be managed, it can be allocated, it can be budgeted, it can be measured, it can be tracked and encouraged, but it can't be dictated.
Innovation rule 2. Create a culture of yes based on optimism and big thinking. Organizations developed anti-bodies to change, that's why big companies stop innovating. If you're the innovator you're like the virus, the anti-bodies wanna kill you. Many people think it's their function to do nothing but say "thou shalt not". Leaders protect people from anti-bodies, your focus should be thou shalt. Create a spirit of optimism, pessimist don't change the world.
Innovation rule 3. Never stop someone from moving forward with their good idea because you have a better one. There's a bull market for innovation, and a Darwinian process for reading out the bad ideas. You will do best by simply encouraging all of them. The best will win and the others will fail. Thomas Edison said: " Have a great idea, have a lot of them."
Innovation rule 4. A leader's job is not to prevent risks but to build the capability to recover when failures occur. There is no such thing as a good failure and a bad failure. Or there is such a thing as a good failure and a bad failure. A good one happens quickly, and it provides plenty lessons. Sometimes you have to look at these lessons in the data. A bad failure takes a long time and you don't learn anything. Leaders don't prevent failures, they prevent bad failures.
Innovation rule 5. A good crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Whenever the public endorse a crisis, ordinary citizens start to wonder how and whether our institutions really work. We no longer take things for granted. It is only then change becomes possible. Many management challenges are in fact teaching moments. The crisis is the built-in narrative, so use it.
I am Li
Ka-Shing, I became an apprentice at the age of 12. By the time I was 15,
I had to support my entire family, thus depriving me of a formal
education.
At the time I was very certain that I must work hard and acquire knowledge to have good prospects.
I bought second-hand books whenever I had spare money and absorbed them before trading them for more books.
Even today I still read every night before going to sleep.
Knowledge does not guarantee a life of riches, but it does open up more opportunities. And recognising opportunities is really the best that you can expect.
* "Your Personal Philosophy is the Greatest determining factor in how your Life works out." Jim Rohn
* Combine your Knowledge. None of us is Smarter than All of Us.
* Welcome Greatness... it Lives all around you.
* Choose to: Think the Best about others. Believe the Best about others.
* Be Enthusiastic!
* Put people up, not down.
* Develop the Ability to find the Ability in others. It's Priceless!
* Help others... Be Liked... Be Right... Be Comfortable... Be Winners.
* Get your ego out of the way.
* Replace the word "I" with the word "We".
* Inspire someone to be the Best they can be.
* Be an Exception, not an exemption.
* Think like a person of Action, act like a person of Thought.
* Commit to something bigger than yourself.
* Act as if what you do makes a Difference. It does!
* Go for it!
* Start an Epidemic of Enthusiasm.
* Throw your Heart over the bar, and your body will Follow.
* Don't waste time waiting for Inspiration. Begin, and Inspiration will find you.
* Be on a Mission.
* Never let weeds grow under your Dreams.
* Never mistake Knowledge for Wisdom.
* Never chase a lie.
* Never laugh at anyone's Dream.
* Never make excuses.
* Celebrate what you want more of.
* Make promises Sparingly. Keep them Faithfully.
* Develop a Tolerance for failure.
* Have no Limits.
* Keep your Promises.
* Never kill an Idea.
* Pursue Character before Prosperity.
* Be Loyal.
* Ask, "What if?"
* Give so much time to the Improvement of yourself that you don't have time to criticize others.
* Create an Atmosphere of Forgiveness.
* Make your word your Bond.
* Don't belittle, Be BIG!
* Learn to say NO! to the good... so you can say YES! to the Great.
* Be unpopular when necessary.
* Never be ashamed of what you Believe.
* Never let up when you are Ahead.
* Don't blow your own horn or you might miss the music.
* "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." Jim Rohn
