13. Reading Reflection No. 1

I read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

1) You read about an entrepreneur:

• What surprised you the most?
• I was most surprised by the amount of difficulties that Steve Jobs had to face with his shareholders while he was initially the CEO of Apple.
• What about the entrepreneur did you most admire?
• I admired his creativity and his charisma to continuously innovate and inspire people around him.
• What about the entrepreneur did you least admire?
• I least admired his tendency to ignore about his responsibility to his family when he was comparably younger.
• Did the entrepreneur encounter adversity and failure? If so, what did they do about it?
• Steve Jobs faced an enormous amount of adversity and failure. Instead of giving up after his board fired him from his CEO position, Jobs continued to work aggressively and founded NEXT, another hardware and software business.

2) What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur exhibited? 

Even when the shareholders constantly disagreed and criticized with Jobs' vision with Apple, Jobs 

3) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you.

It was confusing trying to understand the feud between Microsoft and Apple. I was wondering why Microsoft continued to support Apple with software related to McIntosh. If Microsoft truly wanted to win its competitor, wouldn't they benefit greatly by not making any McIntosh related software?

4) If you were able to ask two questions to the entrepreneur, what would you ask? Why?

First, I would ask why Steve Jobs couldn't be more stubborn with its competition against Microsoft.

Second, I would ask if Jobs regrets how he treated his employees and one of his friends who founded Apple but didn't get any share of Apple initially when Apple grew at a frantically high rate.

5) For fun: what do you think the entrepreneur's opinion was of hard work? Do you share that opinion?

I don't really understand the question, but I feel like Steve Jobs' obsession with perfect results definitely made him work harder. I don't share that opinion though. I believe that human resources are never perfect, and that an entrepreneur must be able to mentally overcome such limitations.