Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

‎Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful…that matters. ” Steve Jobs

Here’s the Stanford Speech for your review. www.bilal.ca/the-best-14-minutes-of-your-life/

Writer Nicholas Thurkettle said that “People who speak of Steve Jobs’s legacy in tech terms are missing the story. Tech was the medium. Jobs was a philosopher.” If you would like to check out the other blog posts that have been inspired by Steve Jobs over the years on this blog, please click here.

I literally teared when my wife informed me about Steve Job’s death. As Om Malik said, “Steve taught me to care about the little things, because in the end, little things matter.”

Rest in Peace Steve. Sincere condolences to the Jobs family who have lost a father and husband to cancer at 56. We lost much. They lost more.

How to build a company like Apple?

For the next little while, I’ll be researching and sharing the best leadership and management bite sized tidbits, here’s one for this week. And something that is desperately needed to build agile, hungry and lean organizations of the economy 2.0.

“If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions, and you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy,” “The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay.” ~ Steve Jobs.

Empower and hire the best creative talent. And trust them.