I switched to my mac book about 10 years ago. I’ve never looked back, they work, the blue screen of death which killed off the thesis just before you due to submit don’t appear, and are simple to use.
14 Beautiful Lessons to Create Excellence
Walter Isaacson in HBO April 2012 edition provides a useful summary of leadership lessons from Steve jobs. They are:
- focus
- simplify
- take responsibility end to end
- when behind, leapfrog
- put products before profits
- don’t be a slave to focus groups
- bend reality
- impute
- push for perfection
- tolerate only “A” players
- engage face-to-face
- know both the big picture and the details
- combine the humanities of the sciences
- stay hungry and stay foolish
Don’t be Reasonable
Just as in his excellent book Isaacson draws out some other important traits. Jobs was not a reasonable man. He saw perfection he was petulant and inpatient and he was rude to some very bright people he demanded the best he got the best and he pushed people to achieve things they never thought were possible. The reason is a reasonable people wouldn’t be exceptional people pushed of three minutes they were. To be fair those of the lessons of history
Build Excellence for Yourself
The article draws have lesson for the iPod he didn’t make it framework but themselves and his friends as he said we made the iPod for ourselves and when you’re doing something yourself, or your best friend or family, and organic cheese and
You can read the article here. The book is good.
Perfection is Worth The Price
You can sense the journey for perfection in 1984.
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