I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM and Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company. John Akers at IBM was a smart, eloquent, fantastic salesperson, but he didn’t know anything about product. The same thing happened at Xerox. When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don’t matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off. It happened at Apple when Sculley came in, which was my fault, and it happened when Ballmer took over Microsoft. Apple was lucky and it rebounded, but I don’t think anything will change at Microsoft as long as Ballmer is running it.
There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘Wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.
1) Do what you love no matter what it happens to be.
2) Put a dent in the universe (Clear consistent vision)
3) Say no to 1000 things (Focus. Reduce the clutter)
4) Kick start your brain (By doing something new)
5) Sell dreams not products (Be innovative)
6) Create insanely great experiences
7) Master the message (You are being judged by how you present yourself/communicate to others)
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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” -Steve Jobs
I like @ryantate. I thought he did a decent write-up on my class last fall.
But am I the only one in the world to think his publishing an email exchange with Steve Jobs was questionable? People raved about it on Twitter all day.
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