Steve Jobs- Walter Isaacson
1) Steve Jobs was the founder and the CEO of Apple. He died in 2011 after fighting pancreatic cancer. What surprised me about Steve Jobs was that he was basically ousted by Apple as the board of directors sided with John Sculley, who Jobs brought on. This happened in 1985 and he was brought back to the company in 1997. He stayed with the company until he died. what I admire about Steve Jobs is that he was always pushing to create something innovative. He was not one to really settle after Apple made so much money. He was always trying to improve the technological world, which he did. I least admire how Jobs was not involved with his family and his daughter for a long part of her early life. IT is hard to balance the career he had and a family life, but at least to me, I think that family is the most important thing and the career takes a backseat to that.Yes, This entrepreneur faced many failures. The Apple products did not all come to fruition. There were many prototypes and different models of the computer that did not work before they made the first model that was sold. He was faced with adversity when the company he co-founded parted ways with him. He continued to develop technology and later got back to Apple.
2) Steve Jobs took a lot of risks when it came to Apple and starting this business. The computer industry had yet to explode and there was only a few systems in place that really lead technology at the time they created the Apple I computer in 1976. Steve Jobs did not know how it was going to sell and if this was the career path they should take. It is a very difficult business to get into and be the top of the food chain in, but he took the challenge head on and Apple became one of the most prominent companies in the world.
3) It was confusing to me how the actual power struggle went between Jobs and Sculley which ultimately lead to Jobs leaving Apple. I am not sure exactly what entailed the beef with them two and the other executives.
4)I would ask Jobs if he ever envisioned Apple becoming what it is today with all of the technology and products? This would be a good one to know because Apple has come out with items that we did not know we had a use for until they came out with them. Another Question I would ask him would be " If he could do one thing over again in the beginning stages of the company what would it be?" I feel this would be a good question because it is easier to look back and see what you could have done better.
5) I think Job's definition of hard work was to keep pushing forward. You cannot stay stagnant in any line of work, but especially in technology. It adapts and so do the people who are involved with it. I do share this opinion. You need to work hard to stay ahead of the curve and continue to work on the product and continue to make it better.
Hi Tyler,
ReplyDeleteFrom what I read in your post, this book seems very interesting and informative. I think Steve Jobs had one of the most gifted minds in the world. I agree with you 100% that Jobs should have been much more involved with his family. He got so caught up in what he was doing at work, that he totally neglected the problems that were inevitably going on at home. To answer your question, I feel like Jobs would say yes, that he did expect Apple to be what it is today, just because that is the type of person he was; very confident in himself, his team, and their abilities.
Hi Tyler,
ReplyDeleteThis post was very informative and gave me a lot of spot light on aspects of Steve Jobs that I was not aware of. I liked how you focused on the motivation side of Jobs, which I believe helped him most to be so successful during his lifetime. With the kind of focus he had on improving and developing, it almost seems expected that he would not be able to spend enough time with his family like he definitely should have.
However, it was very enlightening for me to learn from what you said about Steve Job's with hard work because I think that this can help me be successful too.