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Lessons from Christopher Columbus and Steve Jobs for Your Career
| Guest post by: Mitch Tublin |
Article Overview: There is a time and a place in your career when you just know. You know something or you see something and no one else does. It may be a solution to an ongoing problem. It may be the resolution to a bottleneck in a manufacturing process. You might have a connection in another company who if partnered with your company would both greatly benefit. What do you do?
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Lessons from Christopher Columbus and Steve Jobs for Your Career
“The western route will never work.”
“No one has ever done that before.”
“What makes you think you are right?”
These are some of the words Christopher Columbus heard.He knew there was a sea route which was shorter to Japan.It is a fact we know today that he was wrong in these calculations.He knew the easterly ‘trade winds’ would aid his fleet of ships.This not only proved correct in speeding his ships toward the Americas, in the other direction the westerly winds aided his safe return home to Europe.
There is a time and a place in your career when you just know. You know something or you see something and no one else does.It may be a solution to an ongoing problem.It may be the resolution to a bottleneck in a manufacturing process.You might have a connection in another company who if partnered with your company would both greatly benefit.What do you do?
The majority below the C-Suite actually do nothing and they say nothing. ”I just keep my head down, low profile.” “Not a time to make waves.”
Well folks, you will not hear any agreements from this corner!I totally disagree!
It may be a fact companies are not going on hiring sprees. In general, companies want to retain, let me repeat that,want to retain, their key and quality employees. So wake up and smell the coffee!
Consider first what people have said about Steve Jobs.“He was very demanding.Best product, bes design, best quality and best delivery.He wanted perfect…”
Now flip this around to your situation.Start out by writing an email to yourself and layout your proposal.Your concept, your idea, whatever it is, describe the current situation, your proposed solution, and the results you see from taking these action steps. Send yourself the email.Allow some period of time to go by. Not long, either an hour or a day depending upon the urgency of the matter.Go back to your email and now read it through as if you were the person you are going to send this to.Are there points you are not addressing?Is there a key aspect you are ignoring?
Once you are certain you have this right. Send the email. Copy your immediate Manager if they are not the person you are sending this to as an fyi. This is being proactive and engaged as an employee. You will feel better about your work and you will be recognized as a key employee.
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Re: What If Steve Jobs Hadn't Returned To Apple In 1997?
- Thanks for sharing with us Yinko.
Steve Jobs is definitely a visionary. Not only his products are innovative in a technological sense, but he's managed to turn a tech-company's products into a lifestyle.... a lifestyle!!
[quote:zfqoq43n]Fast Forward to today. Apple has the sexiest products in the business: iMacs, Macbooks, iPhones, iPods and more.[/quote:zfqoq43n]
I think not only tech would be different (music players and phones), but ways we can think of marketing and branding. What Steve Jobs did was of course no easy task for the smaller businesses, but he did start somewhere.
What I did not know was that Apple is worth about as much as Google.
How do you think Apple accomplish what they did? In terms of strategy wise?
If you could advice Steve on one thing, what would it be?
Re: Citizen Journalism: There's no such thing
- This clearly shows that if Steve Jobs sneezes the price of the stock will drop. Since Apple is a great company why do they have to link the rise and fall of the stock to one man? So eventually when Steve passes on what is going to happen to Apples stock?
Re: My Favourite 7 Boldest Entrepreneur Moves of All Time
- Hi Evan,
I have a new suggestion for "Boldest Entrepreneur Moves of All Time" and a suggestion for your Learning from the Masters series:
1. Boldest Entrepreneur Moves of All Time = Christopher Columbus:
"... he saw the possibility of treasure and commerce where others saw only danger. He committed so wholeheartedly to that vision that not even dozens of rejections and ongoing penury could dissuade him from pursuing a journey to Asia via the West. He built on his technical strengths as a seaman to plan a viable journey and eventually marshal an expedition."
- Christopher Hoenig, 6 Essential Secrets for Thinking on a New Level
I bought Hoenig's book about 10 years ago but couldn't make head or tail of it then... reading it now and finding it inspirational...
2. Nomination for Learning from the Masters video: Dee Hock, founder of VISA. (Source = Hoenig.)
Re: Are you getting an iPad 2?
- @GT - we can talk more about it once I get one and I'm happy to answer any questions to see if it might fit your lifestyle.
@Yinka - Sorry, no payment from Steve Jobs... I wish!
Re: What are the top videos for entrepreneurs on YouTube?
- I've seen the Steve Jobs video a few times and it is a great one. Off to watch David's suggestion right now. Thanks guys! I'll try to find one of my own to add to the list.
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