What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs
Everyone’s talking about Steve Jobs after his death on Wednesday Oct. 5th, 2011. But not everyone is learning from him. Whether you’re a Mac or PC lover, Steve Jobs radically changed communication, business, and information consumption.
In fact, Forbes.com recently had a video on its website highlighting, you guessed it, “What You Can Learn from Steve Jobs.” Here are the seven “driving principles” as presented by Forbes along with my commentary on each one. Feel free to click the picture below to watch the video if you’d prefer.
1) Do What You Love
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Many people spend their whole life doing a job they hate. Avoid this.
2) Put a Dent in the Universe
Does your plan for your life include a big vision? How will you change the world?
3) Connect Things to Spark Your Creativity
Jobs knew how to create things people didn’t know they needed by making connections we hadn’t imagined were possible.
4) Say No to 1,000 Things
I once met someone who said to say “no” to someone every day so you never get out of the habit.
5) Create Insanely Different Experiences
Is your business boring? When people meet you, customers work with you, or any other interaction, ask yourself how you can give them an insanely different (and positive) experience.
6) Master the Message
What are you all about? Decide on what the main point is, master it, and repeat it 1,000 times.
7) Sell Dreams, Not Products
Do your products inspire people? In many ways, most people have a “wow” experience when they enter an Apple store. Perhaps we could all learn from this.
What else can we learn from Steve Jobs? What have you learned from him?
I also like this article from MSNBC that Steve Jobs teaches us…”It’s Ok to Fail”. It’s important to remember that very often failure is not a cul de sac but instead a through road to something else.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44278117/ns/business-us_business/t/what-steve-jobs-taught-us-its-ok-fail/#.TpRzfZwu5T4
Thanks for sharing the link. You are dead on that Steve Jobs was remarkably able to bounce back and learn from his failures better than most.