WELL DONE STEVE! YOU HAVE MILES TO GO……

Well, ‘you don’t have to be a fantastic hero to compete, you can be an ordinary chap sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals’ said Edmund Hillary. The world is competitive and heading towards globalization where the fittest can only survive. You are left with two options in the competitive world, either be fit, if you are not, then have the attitude to fight against all obstacles, prepare yourself to face failures, stand up for what you believe in, don’t get despaired or discouraged, struggle, survive and excel, in this process you will eventually become fit enough to live and achieve in this highly competitive world of machines.

I would like to share with you about the life and achievements of one such personality, who fought against all the problems and resistance to reach the level that he has attained today. A born fighter, known for his quality of perseverance, much has been made of his aggressive and demanding personality. The man is Steve Jobs, the co-founder of the iconic company APPLE, the brand people love almost all around the world.

The Chairman and CEO of APPLE really had struggled in his life to achieve the position that he enjoys today. Failures and hardships helped him cultivate the excellent quality called perseverance. A quitter never wins and a winner never quits, his quality of perseverance helped him emerge as a winner in spite of failures and hardships. In fact I have been his admirer ever since I started learning Management, not for the level that he has attained, but for his ability to fight against failures, for his aggressive attitude, for his passionate approach towards life.

Let’s peep into Steve’s past, how he made a great come back after facing so much of hardships in life. Steve was born to an unwed graduate, who put him immediately for adoption; he was adopted by an American couple who had a low level of education. Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon.Although he dropped out after only one semester, he continued attending classes that interested him. He would sleep on the floor of his friends’ rooms and returned coke bottles to earn 5cents per bottle to buy food. Every Sunday night, he would walk seven miles across town to get a free meal at Hare Krishna Temple.The early part of his life and his struggle against problems made him more aggressive and made him try harder. He went on to co-found Apple in 1976, marketed it’s products aggressively. He was fired from his own company, by the Apple’s board of directors in 1985, failures made him more stronger, motivated him again to found Pixar and NeXT, in 1996 he became a member of the Board of directors of Walt Disney, in the same year Apple’s Subsequent buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and again regained his position, became the CEO of Apple in 1997. The star of the corporate world, has been leading his company year after year success around the globe in multiple markets and against brutal competition. What makes him special is the ‘never give up’ kind of attitude, a pancreatic cancer patient, even had a liver transplant in the month of January last year, nothing could stop this man, Jobs officially resumed his role as CEO of Apple on June 29, 2009.

Failures and hardships could never pull this man back, all along his life, he has been determined to achieve great things and passionate about life and business.

Now comes the important part of this story, under his leadership Apple has recently become the second largest company in the United States in terms of m-cap, ahead of Microsoft Incorporation, another mile stone crossed, yet another feather on Steve’s Cap. Well done Steve! You still have miles to go……

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