Both of the Steve Jobs biographies I read, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, were written by people who knew Steve Jobs personally. But there are a couple of small points that I think they overlooked….
Steps to becoming a successful entrepreneur – what can be learned from Steve Jobs, Part 6/7
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.I’ve read quite a bit of information about becoming an entrepreneur. Not that I’ve been able to put much of it into practice, but I’ve done a lot of research. Enough that while I was reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, and Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, I was surprised to notice when Jobs’ success occurred not because he followed what is often given as common advice, but when he deviated from it….
Steve Jobs’ weaknesses as a leader – Part 5/7
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli points out that Job’s success in his second career at Apple depended not only on what he learned from the failures of NeXT and the successes of Pixar, but on him evolving personally, learning how to manage his weaknesses and fine tune his strengths. I went over some of his strengths in a previous post. So what were his characteristics that hampered him, especially earlier in his career? What were Steve Jobs’ weaknesses as a leader?…
Characteristics of Steve Jobs that made him successful – Part 4/7
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.According to Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, these were some characteristics of Steve Jobs that made him successful. I also read, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, the official biography, but because Becoming Steve focused more on his career and less on his personal life, it was easier to keep track of his characteristics in Becoming Steve. Some of these were characteristics that he was lacking – or weren’t well developed – the first time he was at Apple and led, all or in part, to his dismissal from the company. Some of these characteristics intersect with the ones that I went over before, the characteristics of Steve Jobs that are the opposite of what traditional education teaches.…
Steve Jobs and the history of computers – Part 2/7
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.Steve Jobs is one of the super-stars in the history of computers, and you can’t understand one without the history of the other.
A brief history of computers – the role of Steve Jobs and the Mac vs. PC wars
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Becoming Steve Jobs vs. Steve Jobs the official biography, a comparison Part 1/7
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.What skills are necessary to have a successful career? Time and time again I’ve read that the jobs of the future are jobs that don’t even exist; that today’s students will have to be tomorrow’s entrepreneurs. My reading of World Class Learners and Outliers led me to be curious to learn more about the career of Steve Jobs. So I followed those two books by reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, the official biography. Some months later this was the choice for my book club. Instead of rereading Steve Jobs, I decided to gain an alternate perspective by reading Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. Following is a comparison of the two books, Becoming Steve Jobs vs. Steve Jobs the official biography….
What is required to get accepted to a a good college? – Part 4/4
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.Once I faced up to the reality that an Ivy League school or elite university wasn’t a real possibility for my kids based on the chances of being admitted to an elite college, the price of an elite education (and location – they are all far away for us), and other information I gathered, I still needed to know what was really required to get accepted at a “good” college….
What are your chances of getting into an elite university and how much will it cost? – Part 3/4
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.It’s one thing to calculate the numbers for the chances of getting into an elite university and how much it will cost. But you have to wonder, are the numbers really true?
Do the calculations match up to reality?
You can find some arguments that the chances of a “qualified applicant” getting into “at least one” elite college are actually higher….
What is the cost of an elite or Ivy League school? – Part 2/4
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.Long before you start filling out college applications, these days you have to start deciding how many AP classes you’ll need to take before your freshman year of high school . But do you really “need” to take a bunch of AP classes to get into a good college? The answer for attending an elite or Ivy League school is “maybe.” In my last post I looked at the chances of getting into an elite school, even with a steller resume. But assuming you get in, you then have to consider what an Ivy League education would cost? What are the chances of getting a merit scholarship?…
How many AP classes should you take? – Part 1/4
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.How many AP classes should you take?
Challenge yourself – take as many as you possibly can, be involved in extra-curricular activities, be an officer in a club or organization, volunteer, and in your spare time it would be good if you could do something like start a non-profit. And then you might be able to get into a good university.
Really, who knows? Because lots of kids do all that and then they don’t get into a “good” university.
So you better try to do more.
Because if you have a smart kid who likes to apply themselves, you want them to have a shot at success! Don’t you? And if they don’t get into one of the top universities, they’ve lost their chance at success. Right?
That’s the advice high school students and their parents hear. But is it accurate advice? The high school schedule that results from that advice is such a killer, I decided to do some research into what’s really required….
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