Everyone has heard of him he is the guy who started Apple in a garage when he was 20 years old. Steve Jobs life holds a lesson for us all. Attached to this post is a link to the commencement speech he gave at Stanford University in 2005( http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html ).
In that speech he outlines his startup with Apple and talks of building the company only to be voted out 10 years later when it was worth $2 billion.
Obviously it was a very public story and he was a 30 year old man who was released from power of a company that he built. Steve went on to develop a company called NexT and also Pixar (they created the first fully animated movie Toy Story). To make a long story short Apple eventually bought NexT and Steve was once again a part of one the company that he originally started.
Now I know that this is a leadership blog and you may be asking yourself why I am writing about Steve Jobs. Well in a nut shell Steve Jobs survived because he was doing what he loved to do. I know that he was absolutely devastated when he was dismissed from Apple. I know that he went through a tough period trying to find his way. I also know that what he achieved was because Steve Jobs is a man with a very clear vision of what he expects of himself.
He expected to achieve success again. He expected that his dreams were worth pursuing. He trusted his instinct. He understood what he loved to do and was able to communicate that vision to the people around him. He never gave up on himself or his ideas and it worked.
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