One of the most innovative leaders of our generation, Steve Jobs passed away two years ago (October 5, 2011) after his battle with pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. He was the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc when he was alive. Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955.

Steve led innovations while he was alive and revived an ailing Apple company when he came back to the company for his second time in 1996. Apple came out with products like iMac which was based on the NeXT computers founded by Steve Jobs.


He also made an indelible print on the digital world with his animation company Pixar (which was later sold to Walt Disney) and the introduction of the music device, iPod.

One of the biggest achievements of the late Apple CEO was the making of the iPhone which has revolutionized the smartphone making even till now. The iPad is not left out as it started the mass exodus of people from PC to mobile devices in collaboration with smartphones.

Steve Jobs was always known for his ability to believe that everything is possible and has a way of convincing Apple employees that it is in fact possible. The term ‘reality distortion field’ was used to describe Jobs’ charisma.

He was also a perfectionist and this explains why the expectation is always high on Apple’s products. No wonder he once said: “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

He was a zen Buddhist and always credit his creative abilities to a period of time he spent in India. He called the experiences “one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life”.

Not that Steve Jobs lacked problems when he was alive, he had them and some of them probably pushed him to succeed which he admitted. Steve was adopted as a child by Paul and Clara Jobs after his real parents Abdulfattah “John” Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble gave him up for adoption because Carole’s family didn’t approve of their relationship.

He also dropped out of Reed College when Paul and Clara could no more afford his tuition. Steve was ousted from the company he co-founded; Apple in 1985 after Board relieved him of his duties. He later came back to the company in 1996 and led the company to become the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.

He later called his sack the best thing that happened to him: “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

“I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.” he said.

Steve Jobs is your perfect example of envisioning the future when designing products for consumers. “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.” he said.

Steve Jobs knows the value of corporation and as a fan of the Beatles, he based his business strategy on their policy.

“My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other’s negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people.” he said.

Steve Jobs has laid down his legacies while he was alive and has shown this generation what innovation is and the big effect it has on a society. You will forever be remembered Steve Jobs.

Source: http://www.lolade.com/2013/10/two-years-ago-today-steve-jobs.html

He will be remembered.my mentor.
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Nonso23: Respect to the digital legend!
''be a yardstick of quality; some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected''

"i skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been''
Great words!
A Life Well Spent!

yeah that's true. A man that knows where he's going and how to get there..

Thanks for this educative memorial.

A drop-out again! Hmmmm!

mrakin: Thanks for this educative memorial.

thanks for reading & getting educated..