For Silicon Valley, a reason to remember Steve Jobs — Apple News, Tips and Reviews. Malcolm Gladwell On Why History Will Remember Bill Gates And Forget Steve Jobs. Joe Duffy on Steve Jobs' "Designed Life" Steve Jobs. Shared Beliefs. Business. And Design. In the days since Steve Jobs’ passing, I’ve read and reflected along with millions of others around the world. It’s truly amazing the impact that this one man made. So, at the risk of piling on, I thought I’d add my 2 cents about what Steve Jobs meant to me, as designer, a businessman and an individual. His accomplishment in creating products that we have lived with (and in some cases for)—now the products that many of us cannot live without—speaks for itself. Perhaps it is ironic that 1984 marks the same year that I started my design business. Jobs proved that the things people want aren’t always the first, the biggest or the fastest.
It’s funny how his ability to touch popular culture went far beyond selling product; it had a powerful effect on language and the way the world does business. Jobs demonstrated design thinking time and again. Jobs also proved that giving people what they want isn’t the same as asking them what they want. 5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Steve Jobs : The World.
By now, many are grappling with a more realistic vision of Steve Jobs, but also trying to learn from his story. Here are 5 takeaways. November 09, 2011 Steve Jobs died just over a month ago, and the media has already gone through its two stages of grief: Deification, followed by a backlash to the deification. The latter was hastened by the publication of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs bio, which presented a warts-and-all version of the Apple co-founder that contrasted with the airbrushed image that emerged from obituaries. By now, many are grappling with the contradictions of the more fleshed-out and realistic Steve Jobs, but also attempting to learn from the Steve Jobs story. 1. The first three tenets of what would become Jobs's philosophy actually came from Mike Markkula, angel investor and second CEO of Apple. 2. "In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities," Markkula also wrote. 3. 4. 5.
Steve Jobs and the Power of Taking the Big Chance. A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs. I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people. Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother. By then, I lived in New York, where I was trying to write my first novel. When I met Steve, he was a guy my age in jeans, Arab- or Jewish-looking and handsomer than Omar Sharif. We took a long walk — something, it happened, that we both liked to do.
I didn’t know much about computers. Steve told me it was a good thing I’d waited. Here’s To The Crazy One. When I wrote my piece entitled “One More Thing…” in August following the news that Steve Jobs was formally stepping down as CEO of Apple, I knew that sooner or later there would have to be a follow up. Unfortunately, it ended up being sooner. While the reaction following Jobs’ resignation was powerful, the reaction to his passing has been nothing short of amazing.
Former employees, colleagues, celebrities, adversaries — even the President of the United States paid tribute. But once again, the most fascinating group of people showing their support are the ones who did not know Steve Jobs. It’s the everyday people that simply used and loved his products. The Tweets, Facebook messages, blog posts, etc, flowing in from all over the world have been a unifying force. I happen to be in London right now, and in one Tube ride the day after he passed, I overheard several emotional conversations about Jobs. But Steve Jobs was not a celebrity — at least not in the traditional sense. Steve Jobs, the Immediate Case Study - Nancy Koehn - HBS Faculty. By Nancy Koehn | 11:08 AM October 14, 2011 In all kinds of places this past week — from Twitter feeds to boardrooms — people discussed Steve Jobs’s career at Apple as a kind of informal but very important case study. This is not surprising, given his contributions to technology and the lasting impact he’ll have on the way we communicate.
On the other hand, given the currency of Jobs and Apple’s achievements, this is quite rare. John Rockefeller, IBM’s Thomas Watson Sr., and many others have been recognized for their skills as strategists and organizational builders, but we didn’t use them as case studies — at business schools or in conversation — until decades and decades after their deaths. Last week, almost every major business magazine put Jobs on its cover and filled pages with praise for the entrepreneur’s bold vision and uncanny ability to understand what customers wanted.
Steve Jobs’s death begs the question: who is next? AzR - In Dedication, Steve (Only Mac Sounds Used)