Occasionally, our founder and CEO, Tom Murcko, writes exclusive articles
for our newsletter readers. We send these special releases as part of a
new series called, ‘From the CEO's Desk'. Tom hopes that sharing the
insight gained from his career will help you achieve your goals. Cheers!
What I Learned From Steve Jobs
By Tom Murcko
CEO of BusinessDictionary.com, InvestorWords.com & InvestorGuide.com
1
Be bold.
When Steve was just 12, he called the co-founder of electronics giant
Hewlett-Packard to get spare parts for a hobby project. Hewlett was so
impressed in that one conversation that he gave Steve a job that summer
that started him on his career in technology.
2
Question everything.
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Always ask, why do we do it that way? Often the answer is just inertia:
it's done that way today because it was done that way yesterday, not
because it's the best way. By questioning the way things were, he became
an expert at seeing how things could be better. He envisioned desktop
publishing, the networked office, and the pervasive, transformative
power of the internet long before most others.
3
Make your own rules.
At college he skipped the required classes and instead just took
whatever interested him. (This included a calligraphy class, which
contributed to Apple's leadership on fonts and desktop publishing.)
After a while he decided that school was too expensive for his parents
to pay for, so he stopped paying his tuition, but he was so charismatic
that the dean allowed him to audit classes and stay in a dorm with
friends, effectively going to college without having to pay.
4
Live with intensity.
Life is short. Don't spend it living someone else's life, and don't
spend it on small matters. If something isn't worth doing with
intensity, then it's not worth doing at all.
5
Learn from the best.
Steve wanted to innovate, so he studied the leading innovators. In
Apple's early days, this was Xerox Parc, so he visited their research
labs and saw demonstrations on cutting-edge technologies that changed
the trajectory of his company, including graphical user interfaces,
object oriented programming, and networked computing.
6
Let everything be your teacher.
Apple took the best ideas from all fields. The early Macintosh team
included people with backgrounds in music, poetry, art, history and
other liberal arts, who also happened to be among the best programmers
in the world. If not for computer science, they would've done amazing
things in these other fields. Bringing together diverse expertise made
the products better in countless ways.
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From the CEO's Desk
Occasionally, our founder and CEO, Tom Murcko, writes exclusive articles
for our newsletter readers. We send these special releases as part of a
new series called, 詮rom the CEO's Desk'. Tom hopes that sharing the
insight gained from his career will help you achieve your goals. Cheers!
What I Learned From Steve Jobs
By Tom Murcko
CEO of BusinessDictionary.com, InvestorWords.com & InvestorGuide.com
1
Be bold.
When Steve was just 12, he called the co-founder of electronics giant
Hewlett-Packard to get spare parts for a hobby project. Hewlett was so
impressed in that one conversation that he gave Steve a job that summer
that started him on his career in technology.
2
Question everything.
http://t.ms00.net/s/c?u.qkep.
Always ask, why do we do it that way? Often the answer is just inertia:
it's done that way today because it was done that way yesterday, not
because it's the best way. By questioning the way things were, he became
an expert at seeing how things could be better. He envisioned desktop
publishing, the networked office, and the pervasive, transformative
power of the internet long before most others.
3
Make your own rules.
At college he skipped the required classes and instead just took
whatever interested him. (This included a calligraphy class, which
contributed to Apple's leadership on fonts and desktop publishing.)
After a while he decided that school was too expensive for his parents
to pay for, so he stopped paying his tuition, but he was so charismatic
that the dean allowed him to audit classes and stay in a dorm with
friends, effectively going to college without having to pay.
4
Live with intensity.
Life is short. Don't spend it living someone else's life, and don't
spend it on small matters. If something isn't worth doing with
intensity, then it's not worth doing at all.
5
Learn from the best.
Steve wanted to innovate, so he studied the leading innovators. In
Apple's early days, this was Xerox Parc, so he visited their research
labs and saw demonstrations on cutting-edge technologies that changed
the trajectory of his company, including graphical user interfaces,
object oriented programming, and networked computing.
6
Let everything be your teacher.
Apple took the best ideas from all fields. The early Macintosh team
included people with backgrounds in music, poetry, art, history and
other liberal arts, who also happened to be among the best programmers
in the world. If not for computer science, they would've done amazing
things in these other fields. Bringing together diverse expertise made
the products better in countless ways.
Click to Read Lessons 7 - 23
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