How Steve Jobs Conquers Fear
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the company he started after an eleven year absence, Apple was in a death spiral, literally a few months from bankruptcy. The year was 1996. Jobs had been “fired” or forced out in a corporate battle in 1985, one year after launching the Macintosh which revolutionized the computer [...]
Read MoreBoldly Conquer Your Speaking Fears
As a communications coach, I work with speakers in a variety of fields; some are top executives running large companies and others are entrepreneurs struggling to get their startups off the ground. Some are very wealthy while others have poured everything they have into their dreams. But when it comes to public speaking, they all [...]
Read MoreEmbrace Vision, Not Mission
Six weeks into his new job at Microsoft, Steve Ballmer was feeling a pang of uncertainty and began to question his decision to join his former Harvard classmate, Bill Gates, at the fledgling startup. According to Ballmer’s recollection, Gates took him to dinner and said, “Steve, you see yourself as a bean counter for a [...]
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