REBOOT

In 1976, Steve Jobs formed Apple and built the world’s first commercially successful personal computer. In 1985, Jobs was fired from Apple by the CEO and the board. Imagine being fired from the company you started and by the very people you helped recruit.

Early in his career, Jobs was described as someone who ruled “by force of personality, making numerous economies with his ridiculing the ideas of others, his unwillingness to hear views contrary to his own and his outbursts of bad temper”. The lack of humility finally did Jobs in.

Jobs really didn’t know what to do for a few months. He felt that he had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. He met with David Packard and tried to apologise. He started a computer company aptly named NeXT and bought a struggling animation studio named Pixar.

In 1997, Jobs was back at Apple as “interim” CEO. His first move was to drop the very operating system developed by him at NeXT and that Apple had purchased from him two years earlier. That move wasn’t the Jobs of old. He had mellowed and seemed more open to ideas. Jobs himself was sure none of this [NeXT, Pixar, the iPod, the iTunes, the iPad] would have happened if he hadn’t been fired from Apple.

Every big setback provides us to reboot ourselves. We must be better at using the opportunity to overcome every weakness that was reason for the setback. We must follow the route chosen by the inspirational Steve Jobs who showed that ultimate nirvana needs us to reboot our attitude.

Every setback provides the opportunity to reboot...
Let’s BE BETTER at emulating Steve Jobs’ route!

- Pravin K. Sabnis