Great to see how he took time to answer. We often feel pressured and forced to give a response instantly. It’s totally okay to pause reflect and take as long as you need to give an answer taking full control of the situation. It certainly tests your confidence and the patience of the person asking the question. Great to see how Steve’s composure
@Gravity Motivation well, i think he might knew the answer, but he didn't know how to answer it, and that's what he thinking about. And if it is just about getting attention, then should be doing it on every question, right?
@Gravity Motivation I have to disagree. I can relate to his personality and he was definitely thinking very deep about what his answer was going to be because like he said it was a very good question which made him really think and analyze the question and he simply has the balls to take as much time as he needs to answer this person’s question. This whole idea of it being his portrayal is a laughable comment.
@bad token Brilliant may not be the right word here but theres something to be said about someone that actually takes their time and gives a really thoughtful and meaningful answer. And this isn't the only time you see Jobs do it. I think its one of his most underrated traits that we can all learn from and admire.
I love how Steve took his time to come up with an answer, like he took that on a personal level and wanted to provide the questioner with a true, authentic answer. That's a quality I've rarely found in people.
pure sh*t...they don't allow you to think that much. You must be fast and smart or you are discarded. And, since I'm not his fanboy, I totally desagree with his answer.... always thinking how better he is over the rest of people. Defenitelly a sadman who didn't enjoy his life. And a bad example for a equalty society.
@@louietattaglia4664 I mean i think he gave a good answer but seriously everyone in this comment section is fucking jizzing themselves with how much they love this guy, it’s fucking weird. The comment above this one someone says something like “Pure brilliance - he really thinks hard about this before answering - love you Steve” bruh what??? He’s brilliant simply for thinking about a question before answering? And they love him? People are so weird.
these are the kind of genuine questions that aren't asked at interviews anymore. edit: didn't think too much while commenting; just said what I felt at the moment.
These were questions coming from MIT Sloan students. Jobs wife had a friend/family member that attended Sloan so that's why he agreed to do a speech and Q&A.
The key to running a huge company successfully is to pause when being asked a random question in another setting. Fantastically superb and absolutely amazing!
humans actually give you more time than you give yourself when asked a question. You shouldn’t rush to answer a question. It’s better to think analyze the question then answer it. You’re absolutely right!
@@griedd I have no problem with taking a moment to collect your thoughts before responding. The only reasons people don't is some perceived social pressure to respond. My comment wasnt making fun of Steve for doing that, instead it was making fun of his worshipers.
"Taking a longer term view on people" This hit close to home because I too feel the need to fix something or someone right away, but I soon realize that isn't always the case. It's the Gardener vs. Mechanic philosophy. Things take time & you need to gradually teach someone for the long term & it isn't always easy considering the world around them is changing too.
The Irony is, when he went back to Apple, the first thing he started doing was firing people. This is well known. He was not wrong, as expenses had to be cut to get the company profitable. But he either was lying here in this vid or forgot what he had learned, because he did the exact opposite of what he stated here when he went back to Apple.
@@spartanx169x Well there is a problem to what he is saying. In order to have a long term view on people, you need to maintain them and gratify them, in turn they develop. Many companies fail to do so. So it's a 50/50, the people do their part, and so does the company to keep them. I don't think he forgot, he was talking about data, so he probably saw something in the "Data" which led him to fire all those people. There's always a fact that overrules another. If a criminal made you decide on which person should live, a human or an ant.. It's obvious that the human should live, then the criminal all of the sudden makes you decide to pick between that same random human and a family member. The human dies. Same analogy. Obvious answer in the first one, situation got worse, so you sacrifice what you protected earlier.
I believe this was around when everything in his career was going wrong. He had cut ties with Apple. NeXt and Pixar were failing. This was the period in which he became the version of Steve Jobs that we all know and love today. The genius operator who took chances on people instead of treating them like objects like he once did. The genius innovator who launched and scaled the iPod and the iPhone among other extraordinary inventions.
So much BS in this comment. Steve was never like this. Every success that he took credit for was created by others and achieved despite Steve’s involvement. In his biography is clearly shown that all his ideas failed. All ideas presented by others that created apple trademark were done by rejecting his ideas- he just selflessly tool credit for it. Even Pixar was more happy when Steve was not in the office.
@@Kantares71830 Do you think Apple or Pixar would be anywhere near what they are today without Steve's involvement? Do you think personal computing would be as consumer-friendly and mass-adopted as it is today without Steve's involvement? In business settings, innovators don't simply just come up with ideas and magically put them on the market. The betters ones also have the ability to filter out bad ideas and hyperfocus on good ones. Everything in life has an opportunity cost. At different times, different opportunities are worth pursuing over other ones. He navigated this extremely well. Another critical attribute to properly innovate is to embrace what those around Steve called a "reality distortion field"; sometimes, not taking no for an answer translates seemingly impossible outcomes into material results. And I think we can both agree that his operating skills are extraordinary. Also located in his biography is his consistent ability to turn garage experiments into obscenely profitable margins for hardware products. His negotiation tactics were also excellent. Yes, he failed countless times and yes, many of his failed products were his own ideas and yes, a lot of Apple's success comes from the ideas of others. But, again, ideas don't magically become successful and leading products on the market. You actually need people live Steve to translate good ideas into top products. You need entrepreneurs to take the risk others aren't willing to take, and to dedicate their life to maximizing returns from the risk that they've taken on. And that's why he's revered by the world today. Also why he'll probably also be revered.
@@leveragedalpha7847 The length of your comment highlights how far entrenched you are in your position in regards to sucking off Jobs, and shows that you cant be trusted to provide your unbiased opinion. Also you're not writing a fcking school paper kid. With that being said, Steve Jobs had ideas, but it was others who made it come to fruition. If you've ever worked at a large company or corporation, then you would see how it operates as a collective. Very rarely/never are corporations "one man shows" as you make it out to be. Steve Jobs was good at three things: Computers, Marketing, and Talent Acquisition. Aside from those things, after Apple's initial success Jobs merely functioned as a figurehead for the company.
@@leveragedalpha7847 He managed to build his own cult but the people that worked with him dislike him because he's difficult to work with. If you look through the clout that he's built, you'll realise he's just that dude in the project group that no one likes to work with but takes credit for everything.
@@chrisl9934 He was difficult to work with because he was constantly pushing people. He was obsessive and didn’t care for people’s feelings. But even the ones that wouldn’t like to work with him again admired his vision and pursuit of excellence. His clout was built by a vision that got a near bankrupt company to the most valuable in the world. You see, hiring a dozen brilliant people does not mean one brilliant idea, it means at least 12. He made decisions following a vision that proved himself right over and over. As far as his role in the company, it’s irrelevant where the ideas came from.
This is the hardest thing to overcome as a technical manager for me anyway. Understanding that you yourself can only accomplish so much on your own no matter how good you are at your job. In any industry someone who becomes knowledgeable and experienced enough is eventually going to be charged with teaching and mentoring others. If your not good at that, the best you'll ever be or the most you'll ever accomplish will be limited to your own capability. I see so few technical managers that understand this..
I have thought the exact thing he is describing and have lived it when i was training a disable employee at work and trying to get the most out of his potential which was very limited. This is what basic leadership and teambuilding is about. He was not the best at any task but he was hard at work and reliable at what he did right.
A good motivation to do this is to open up more free time for yourself. You cannot delegate if your team doesn't learn. As leaders get older they realise they have to be this way.
I used to teach martial arts. I was always adamant that there was no one “right” way to do a technique. I would do my best as a teacher to lay a framework of the fundamental requirements that must be met in order for a technique to work, but leaving space within that framework for students to experiment and develop their own, individual relationship with the technique was important to me. In other words, in order to get an armbar from guard, the requirements are that your hips aren’t pinned, that your opponents elbow has been separated from their torso, and that you’ve secured at least enough control over your opponents posture that they can’t move their hips beneath their head. Those are a set of criteria that you can accomplish through an innumerable set of methods. There are an unfathomable number of subtly differentiated permutations of that technique which all satisfy those criteria, but each of which satisfy those criteria utilizing different mechanisms. But my goal, as a teacher, is not to get them to perfectly execute MY vision of an armbar, in an attempt to validate MY sense of superiority. My goal is to get them to make their opponent tap out. And if they find something that works, even if it differs from how I would approach that problem, I would be an idiot if I did not recognize the value of the insight that my students had afforded me through their own, individual interpretations of my teaching. And if, in utilizing my heuristic model, they arrive upon a completely different methodology that proves to be successful, I’m happy. But the uncovering and discovery of such a different methodology requires a certain level of tolerance for failure and for variance. Corporate America is so grossly detached and divorced from understanding what genuine, true excellence is. No one is excellent, no one excels beyond their peers without creativity and individuality. And creating an environment which fosters creativity and individuality requires that you be willing to allow people to fail. We punish people for failure when we should be excited about the information and perspective that the failure provides. We should not be angry, but rather, excited at the opportunity to develop something new.
This reminds me of when I used to work in software and I heard the term "best practice" thrown around a lot, as if there is only one acceptable way to do anything.
It’s cool to think about how he processed his answer during that pause. I imagine him realising the answer quite instantly - but it was the explanation that required more finessing.
Yeah maybe that's his secret why his computers and I phone has high quality processors. His brain love to process high quality information and thoughts before he say it to public.
We look at “greater than life” figures through the aura of their achievements, status, popularity or even beauty, so every word, gesture or silence they make seems mystical. However some of them are geniuses like Steve.
I known from experience that the same thing applies in the inverse, employees who look great but something dramatic happen and you realize they aren't and if you would have been paying closer attention you could have realized sooner.
so many people praising his "well thought out" answer which was basically "People aren't as perfect as I am so I learned to correct their mistakes in a better way". wow
average people take time to think and answer. Everyone: this person is stupid. Steve Jobs took time to think and answer. Everyone: omg, this is genius, so brilliance.
Salute to his habit of taking a pause he has before answering something. Would love to know how one can learn that skill of not hurrying to answer the question and answer in a relaxed calm way after giving a thought.
You will always see very intelligent people first think before they respond. They ponder on the question, and weigh the impact and relevance of the answer.
Don't be afraid to ask questions your job can become so much easier when you can compare your work with others tweak it from there your perfect may not be someone else's perfect and remember surprises happen when you least expect it everyone is unique your clientele got the rehearsals your employees should be forever
I work at Apple corporate, obviously things have changed since this video. Today is a Saturday as I type this comment. Yesterday I was approached by three management staff, out of the blue, and asked to be our Team Lead. I had zero idea this was happening and I promise you this wasn't the cliche corporate thing of, "cold faces, zero emotion... we're giving you more responsibilities on top of everything else." They told me straight to my face, "we want you to grow further" and I'll leave it at that. This morning I was like, "oh great, I'm already thinking to RUclips Steve Jobs videos for any hint of how to now lead a team I was formerly just working for..." But this video weirdly kinda nailed it. There are FAR too many companies that HYPE focus on management / managers as the sole bread and butter of companies... As if workers are expendable and should be treated as, one terrible former boss I had said, "trash that's just waiting to be taken out!" The problem with companies that focus on management is that a top down strategy doesn't work. Everyone who's ever worked for a shitty boss knows this. I know it too... Steve Jobs wasn't an inventor, coder or programmer, so why is he remembered? Because he had a fully natural gift to assemble perfect teams of players to work together. Of course this is combined with his natural charisma too, but his true gift was finding the right people. So what's the takeaway from my comment if you're still reading? We're all struggling. I like to say, "look, everyone is fighting an invisible war you know nothing about, be nicer to people." -- But people should come first. The team YOU work with should come first. Sadly the VAST majority of management at a crazy amount of companies will never think this way, and that's why there is this stigma that, "workers are waste ready to be discarded" persists..
That wont work in real life as other party is not waiting for your response. this is a receiving type of environment and not a debate or discussion. The art is overrated. you need high speed back n forth( watch the news channel of usa). people speak slowly in usa not in media where every second counts and you have to get your point across swiftly! it is called--" TO EARN YOUR PAUSE ". IT IS DONE ON PERFORMANCES NORMALLY! AND steve himself is a great performer!
Imagine if all CEO's nowadays were like him...I miss him and his spirit of creation, even more the fact that it has never been overshadowed by the loads of money he made! Chapeau!
"He changed the world! The world was one way! And then Steve Jobs came, and it was another!" What did he do? Somebody, for the love of god. What the freak did that guy do? What he do? He told other people what to invent. "I want my entire music collection in that phone. Get on it! ... New phone can't fit the old charger. This is your hero? This is the guy? This is what all the silence is all about. New phone can't fit the old charger, so you gots to throw it out. It ends up in the ocean around some octopus's neck." Love ya Bill Burr.
He took this from the heart, he knew his behavior was wrong at apple and he learned and grew to be a better person, very few people can grow like this, he did and he went on to do wonderful things after this.
Steve takes longer time to answer a question everyone just wow look at him thinking so hard that's so cool. Meanwhile when i take time to answer question literally everyone including teacher if you don't know just go out. And there it is my all confidence goes to zero. It's not a work or activity that we appreciate it's people who we believe is superior than us but they are not.
That's the school system for you. To be fair to Jobs, the guy founded one of the most powerful companies on the planet. He can afford to think about his answer. Not to insult you, but you and I are average.
@@IGamingStation you respect jobs i also respect jobs although you don't know apple company labour problem and how popularity of jobs makes that problem invisible.and ofcourse he is talent popular. Bro no man on earth is pure the more talent genius he is the more evil is from inside
This actually comes through really powerfully in The Movie - it depicts him as someone that has real difficulty in Trusting other people to Do The Work when he asks them to, and is constantly pushing and micromanaging early on.
ALTERNATIVE ANSWER: 0:37 " and that is... I now take a longer time to answer questions. In order words when I hear a question my first reaction is not to rush in answering it..."
Charisma is the most utilized tool by sociopaths/psychopaths. If you read about John Wayne Gacy, he was the pillar of his community and everyone loved him. Always be weary of those who are most charismatic and in high power.
Absolutely, it's important that every employee learns and grows every day, non-creative tasks can be automated. So one day every employee will be an entrepreneur!
Successful people when they pause to give a careful explanation : "amazing" Student when pause during presentation : "-50% mark reduction for pausing, you're a failure" F system
I can totally relate to what he is saying. I am mentoring folks and it is not a cake walk especially when you have team members who are not taking ownership of their tasks.
@@NormanReaddis Not really. microsoft only sold software and all the hardware was done by other firms in agreement with microsoft license: dell, hp and all others where windows dominated: 95% of the industry. so it actually windows eco-system was quite expensive even when they were outsourced. so apple strategy was daunting as it needed all the skills under one roof. And paying in dollars in america was always gonna be hard( over time was the main reason). Sun also did like Apple and went bankrupt before got sold. they had processing plant, os, java everything under one roof! Even today microsoft eco system sales are higher than apples: microsoft sales: 250 billion dollars+hp+dell and those make around 220 bil( hp,dell,lenovo: 120+75+25 ish) and there are others too! And there are other behemoths as well: IBM mainframe still needed for some work and also data centers which are full of linux! Networking equipment ( lan+wireless with 5g is an epic behemoth). And another whole new world with smart phones which has maximum sales( 5g and above which needs everything to be overhauled) -- the japanese had enough of all that crap and wanna standardize 8k broadcasting( that is a serious task similar to bullet trains). so you need blockbuster capture equpiment, compression engine, than wifi to send all that to nearest data center and than send via optical lines elsewhere( need terrabite links) and do reverse and than display at 8k( think about it) --------- so these days outsourcing wont help much as you have to set whole eco-system!
Wow, this is actually an insanely valuable point of view. If you fire a person who screws up something instantly, and look for a better team member, it means you will be under-staffed for a period, it will cost to hire a new employee, and after going through all that phase, that person might turn out to be a screwup on another task. Asking "who is this person exactly and why s/he fails to do this?", and trying to eliminate the issue would be quite helpful, and these types of situations in work life enhance the bonding among team members. It is meaningful for other team members to somebody try to overcome his personal obstacles to be a better colleague, it is self-devotion in its purest form.
I get that people are amazed by him taking like 10 seconds to answer, but honestly, I think instead of pointing it out, we should normalize it. It should be unexceptional to think about a question before responding to it. In fact, I find it alarming when someone has an answer in the chamber for a question that requires analysis. We should be pointing out situations where people DON’T take time to answer! Just as much as we acknowledge people for taking the time to be thoughtful, we should be critical of thoughtlessness.
“I want *End to End* Control, *totally incompatible* with *anything.* “ *Woz* : [careful pause] ….computers aren’t supposed to *have* Human Flaws - I’m not building *this* one, with *your’s.* “ [ Wins The Argument ]
I still remember myself asking Steve why he took such a long time to answer, right after that speech. He paused a little bit, and it took him almost as much as the time he took on stage. "Dude I was just stoned as fuck, I am better now right? "
While everyone comments super intellectual stuff by dissecting his persona, lemme just scream in silence about his beauty, this is the first time I've seen young steve jobs
Here is the cheat code. If i can literally just sit around basking in my own happiness and love and self-satisfaction then that short-circuits all of life. That's the genius of this method. That's its power. You think this is a bug. This is not a bug. This is a feature. This is exactly what you want. You want to short circuit that because you see then it frees you up.
What an odd lesson to think as most valuable from such a brilliant man. Any decent father instinctively knows this when raising a child. Very telling of the man.
Part of being a good leader is allowing others to work. Considering the fact that a leader is just another role your team. If you feel like you need to do everything then obviously you shouldnt be the one telling people what to do, and would better serve as the worker. His response shows that even at the highest level we all deal with the same problems in the workplace
Elon Musk also takes a pause to think before he answers a question. We should all take a lesson from this rather than being unconfortable with silence and quick to fire off a half-baked respinse.
@@Miles_Goodson_Bangs_Kids bruh stop sucking off jobs. he wasnt a smart or good man. he stole ideas and was a jacked up person overall. you can ignore it b7t that woild just make you ignorant
Great to see how he took time to answer. We often feel pressured and forced to give a response instantly. It’s totally okay to pause reflect and take as long as you need to give an answer taking full control of the situation. It certainly tests your confidence and the patience of the person asking the question. Great to see how Steve’s composure
@Gravity Motivation that’s a very interesting view, great observation. Makes sense!
@Gravity Motivation well, i think he might knew the answer, but he didn't know how to answer it, and that's what he thinking about.
And if it is just about getting attention, then should be doing it on every question, right?
That's because in school they train you to give answers as if you're doing a timed sales pitch
@Gravity Motivation yeah, but he has given way more important answers before, but didn't see him taking pause of so long
@Gravity Motivation I have to disagree. I can relate to his personality and he was definitely thinking very deep about what his answer was going to be because like he said it was a very good question which made him really think and analyze the question and he simply has the balls to take as much time as he needs to answer this person’s question. This whole idea of it being his portrayal is a laughable comment.
That’s his brilliance - who really thought hard about the question before giving any answer - love you Steve
@bad token yes, but only a few really do.
@MrGriff305 you just take your time...?
When he does it it’s called brilliance, when I do it my teacher says I don’t know enough about what I’m presenting hence the pause
Or he didn’t know what to say
@bad token Brilliant may not be the right word here but theres something to be said about someone that actually takes their time and gives a really thoughtful and meaningful answer. And this isn't the only time you see Jobs do it. I think its one of his most underrated traits that we can all learn from and admire.
Creating a problem-solving system >> Instantly solving the problem
dude i dont know if this is copied from somewhere, but this taught me so much, thank you.
Problem: increased carbon emissions
Apple: makes more devices that contribute to carbon emissions.
Problem solved 😂
This is a superb summary!
@@happyzone1000 honestly, that's not their problem
@@Yeahagreed so if their products contribute to climate change, and that's not their problem, who's is it? Donald Trump's?
"Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people." - Steve Jobs
no man is an island
Absolutely right.
Not a scripted answer , that's why he took time and given a nice answer. Great
May be itself is a scripted
@@juststudy9989 The kind of personality jobs was, idts it was scripted
He was loading because of bloated apple software
Ok mate. Greetings from New Zealand.
@@AE-bm4no lmao
I love how Steve took his time to come up with an answer, like he took that on a personal level and wanted to provide the questioner with a true, authentic answer. That's a quality I've rarely found in people.
Very Elon-like.
It was 1992
It was more for himself than for the person asking
@@marufio possible
@@valberm very Jobs like who came before Musk
Look at the time he took to answer , thats so amazing
Yeah that’s not amazing
Critical thinker = critical answer
wow he paused to think what a genius
When a person has money and success. All things seems to be amazing about that person🤣
It’s amazing as nowadays people regularly dont think before speaking
More people need to watch this video. He took his time to answer the question which is something most of us need to learn how to do.
pure sh*t...they don't allow you to think that much. You must be fast and smart or you are discarded. And, since I'm not his fanboy, I totally desagree with his answer.... always thinking how better he is over the rest of people. Defenitelly a sadman who didn't enjoy his life. And a bad example for a equalty society.
Bro why is everyone all wet about him taking his time lmao in just saying. It's funny
@@wellstone1897 🤓
Yeah nobody raises question why Apple (now) has become a US gov Muppet?
@@louietattaglia4664 I mean i think he gave a good answer but seriously everyone in this comment section is fucking jizzing themselves with how much they love this guy, it’s fucking weird. The comment above this one someone says something like “Pure brilliance - he really thinks hard about this before answering - love you Steve” bruh what??? He’s brilliant simply for thinking about a question before answering? And they love him? People are so weird.
He is so confident. I can't handle that kind of silence in the public.
You can do it if you study and work enough!
@@modernosmanli logically, studying have nothing to do with this.
U too can mate
these are the kind of genuine questions that aren't asked at interviews anymore.
edit: didn't think too much while commenting; just said what I felt at the moment.
I thought the same thing.
If this much time took at the interview, he probably be gone and not hired at Apple Lol.
These were questions coming from MIT Sloan students. Jobs wife had a friend/family member that attended Sloan so that's why he agreed to do a speech and Q&A.
@@Ahmed-ye5sd not that type of interview dingus
Maybe you are watching the wrong interviews, my man.
The key to running a huge company successfully is to pause when being asked a random question in another setting. Fantastically superb and absolutely amazing!
@@km2304 about 1 minute and 20 bucks. You need something? I can loan ya a Jackson.
humans actually give you more time than you give yourself when asked a question. You shouldn’t rush to answer a question. It’s better to think analyze the question then answer it. You’re absolutely right!
Oh dude, you got it wrong, definitely
@@griedd I have no problem with taking a moment to collect your thoughts before responding. The only reasons people don't is some perceived social pressure to respond. My comment wasnt making fun of Steve for doing that, instead it was making fun of his worshipers.
Yes that’s definitely “THE KEY” to running a huge company, it’s the first and only lesson in an MBA.
"Taking a longer term view on people"
This hit close to home because I too feel the need to fix something or someone right away, but I soon realize that isn't always the case. It's the Gardener vs. Mechanic philosophy. Things take time & you need to gradually teach someone for the long term & it isn't always easy considering the world around them is changing too.
This is my first experience with that analogy and it really resonates with me. Thank you!
The Irony is, when he went back to Apple, the first thing he started doing was firing people. This is well known. He was not wrong, as expenses had to be cut to get the company profitable. But he either was lying here in this vid or forgot what he had learned, because he did the exact opposite of what he stated here when he went back to Apple.
@@spartanx169x Well there is a problem to what he is saying. In order to have a long term view on people, you need to maintain them and gratify them, in turn they develop. Many companies fail to do so. So it's a 50/50, the people do their part, and so does the company to keep them. I don't think he forgot, he was talking about data, so he probably saw something in the "Data" which led him to fire all those people. There's always a fact that overrules another. If a criminal made you decide on which person should live, a human or an ant.. It's obvious that the human should live, then the criminal all of the sudden makes you decide to pick between that same random human and a family member. The human dies. Same analogy. Obvious answer in the first one, situation got worse, so you sacrifice what you protected earlier.
I believe this was around when everything in his career was going wrong. He had cut ties with Apple. NeXt and Pixar were failing. This was the period in which he became the version of Steve Jobs that we all know and love today. The genius operator who took chances on people instead of treating them like objects like he once did. The genius innovator who launched and scaled the iPod and the iPhone among other extraordinary inventions.
So much BS in this comment. Steve was never like this. Every success that he took credit for was created by others and achieved despite Steve’s involvement. In his biography is clearly shown that all his ideas failed. All ideas presented by others that created apple trademark were done by rejecting his ideas- he just selflessly tool credit for it. Even Pixar was more happy when Steve was not in the office.
@@Kantares71830 Do you think Apple or Pixar would be anywhere near what they are today without Steve's involvement? Do you think personal computing would be as consumer-friendly and mass-adopted as it is today without Steve's involvement?
In business settings, innovators don't simply just come up with ideas and magically put them on the market. The betters ones also have the ability to filter out bad ideas and hyperfocus on good ones. Everything in life has an opportunity cost. At different times, different opportunities are worth pursuing over other ones. He navigated this extremely well. Another critical attribute to properly innovate is to embrace what those around Steve called a "reality distortion field"; sometimes, not taking no for an answer translates seemingly impossible outcomes into material results.
And I think we can both agree that his operating skills are extraordinary. Also located in his biography is his consistent ability to turn garage experiments into obscenely profitable margins for hardware products. His negotiation tactics were also excellent.
Yes, he failed countless times and yes, many of his failed products were his own ideas and yes, a lot of Apple's success comes from the ideas of others. But, again, ideas don't magically become successful and leading products on the market. You actually need people live Steve to translate good ideas into top products. You need entrepreneurs to take the risk others aren't willing to take, and to dedicate their life to maximizing returns from the risk that they've taken on.
And that's why he's revered by the world today. Also why he'll probably also be revered.
@@leveragedalpha7847 The length of your comment highlights how far entrenched you are in your position in regards to sucking off Jobs, and shows that you cant be trusted to provide your unbiased opinion. Also you're not writing a fcking school paper kid.
With that being said, Steve Jobs had ideas, but it was others who made it come to fruition. If you've ever worked at a large company or corporation, then you would see how it operates as a collective. Very rarely/never are corporations "one man shows" as you make it out to be. Steve Jobs was good at three things: Computers, Marketing, and Talent Acquisition. Aside from those things, after Apple's initial success Jobs merely functioned as a figurehead for the company.
@@leveragedalpha7847 He managed to build his own cult but the people that worked with him dislike him because he's difficult to work with.
If you look through the clout that he's built, you'll realise he's just that dude in the project group that no one likes to work with but takes credit for everything.
@@chrisl9934 He was difficult to work with because he was constantly pushing people. He was obsessive and didn’t care for people’s feelings. But even the ones that wouldn’t like to work with him again admired his vision and pursuit of excellence. His clout was built by a vision that got a near bankrupt company to the most valuable in the world. You see, hiring a dozen brilliant people does not mean one brilliant idea, it means at least 12. He made decisions following a vision that proved himself right over and over. As far as his role in the company, it’s irrelevant where the ideas came from.
This is the hardest thing to overcome as a technical manager for me anyway. Understanding that you yourself can only accomplish so much on your own no matter how good you are at your job. In any industry someone who becomes knowledgeable and experienced enough is eventually going to be charged with teaching and mentoring others. If your not good at that, the best you'll ever be or the most you'll ever accomplish will be limited to your own capability. I see so few technical managers that understand this..
“Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.” - James Clear
steve always will say things I've just never come close to thinking
I have thought the exact thing he is describing and have lived it when i was training a disable employee at work and trying to get the most out of his potential which was very limited. This is what basic leadership and teambuilding is about. He was not the best at any task but he was hard at work and reliable at what he did right.
That is multi level answer , he is just picking answer for the asker level.
comments like these stroke my ego fr
@@teratoma. Just listen to any Elon musk fanboy talk. They'll praise and be amazed by every little thing he does
@@osamait1522 Hahah...most dumb answer I have read... "multi level answer" ...kid, better you enjoy your life before you ended up like this sadman.
The time he took to answer shows that he is true about his answers and not just responding that makes answer more attractive.
i know youre trying to be top comment but 50 other people are in line for that, saying the exact same thing as you
A good motivation to do this is to open up more free time for yourself. You cannot delegate if your team doesn't learn. As leaders get older they realise they have to be this way.
Totally agree bro
I used to teach martial arts. I was always adamant that there was no one “right” way to do a technique. I would do my best as a teacher to lay a framework of the fundamental requirements that must be met in order for a technique to work, but leaving space within that framework for students to experiment and develop their own, individual relationship with the technique was important to me.
In other words, in order to get an armbar from guard, the requirements are that your hips aren’t pinned, that your opponents elbow has been separated from their torso, and that you’ve secured at least enough control over your opponents posture that they can’t move their hips beneath their head.
Those are a set of criteria that you can accomplish through an innumerable set of methods. There are an unfathomable number of subtly differentiated permutations of that technique which all satisfy those criteria, but each of which satisfy those criteria utilizing different mechanisms.
But my goal, as a teacher, is not to get them to perfectly execute MY vision of an armbar, in an attempt to validate MY sense of superiority. My goal is to get them to make their opponent tap out. And if they find something that works, even if it differs from how I would approach that problem, I would be an idiot if I did not recognize the value of the insight that my students had afforded me through their own, individual interpretations of my teaching.
And if, in utilizing my heuristic model, they arrive upon a completely different methodology that proves to be successful, I’m happy.
But the uncovering and discovery of such a different methodology requires a certain level of tolerance for failure and for variance.
Corporate America is so grossly detached and divorced from understanding what genuine, true excellence is.
No one is excellent, no one excels beyond their peers without creativity and individuality. And creating an environment which fosters creativity and individuality requires that you be willing to allow people to fail.
We punish people for failure when we should be excited about the information and perspective that the failure provides. We should not be angry, but rather, excited at the opportunity to develop something new.
You have to be more than a martial artist, you write good too!
Good man Patrick
Thank you for taking the time to type this all out, what an amazing comment
wall of text nearly killed me
This reminds me of when I used to work in software and I heard the term "best practice" thrown around a lot, as if there is only one acceptable way to do anything.
I liked the way that Steve Jobs took time to think properly before responding. That's the trait of highly confident people
Liked how our boy really took the time to weigh out his answer
He's not "your boy" omg cringe
@@jamesevans2507 you're right, I said, OUR BOY, as in, the person being referenced
whoops
It’s cool to think about how he processed his answer during that pause.
I imagine him realising the answer quite instantly - but it was the explanation that required more finessing.
Yeah maybe that's his secret why his computers and I phone has high quality processors. His brain love to process high quality information and thoughts before he say it to public.
🤣
We look at “greater than life” figures through the aura of their achievements, status, popularity or even beauty, so every word, gesture or silence they make seems mystical.
However some of them are geniuses like Steve.
I love how he really thought about the question. The art of listening is becoming more and more rare, and what a great answer.
Can’t believe he’s gone imagine what the world would be like if he’d still be here.
More iPhones to spy on you
More narcissism
More natural medicine healing bullshit
I known from experience that the same thing applies in the inverse, employees who look great but something dramatic happen and you realize they aren't and if you would have been paying closer attention you could have realized sooner.
Thinking before replying shows that you respect the question of the asker enough to give a well-considered response
so many people praising his "well thought out" answer which was basically "People aren't as perfect as I am so I learned to correct their mistakes in a better way". wow
I can see his passion in his voice
all people who say that they love how Steve took his time to answer. Next time please take your time and look if there are dozens of such comments.
Amazing, Steve took time to reflect & answer. And his Answer was was very profound - what he said is Team building 101. Allowing people to learn.
Thx for the elaboration of what he actually meant.
Legend 🔥💯
Basically patience and empathy.
A whole 20 seconds before he finally answered. I'm impressed he took his time, not many do that. Shows confidence
Great man..
He wasn't just "at" apple, he created it.
But he didn't create the original apple.
Just like your current Lord and Saviour didn't create the first Tesla
He was the CEO and backstabbed the original creators
but what about Wozzy?
He was and still Apple
It's been 30 years..So grateful for this video..
If anyone of us takes such amount of time during a job interview we are kicked 😂😂
Jep, most of us would be interrupted.
It's perfectly okay to take your time to answer questions in an interview. Blurting out nonsense just for the sake of it is only harmful.
@@bruvhellnah it is, but most of the time - it (time) isn’t given.
Taking the time to think instead of rushing. Respect
I just realised I’ve never seen what he looked like before illness and old age. I didn’t even recognise him until he answered.
Basically patience and empathy.
average people take time to think and answer. Everyone: this person is stupid.
Steve Jobs took time to think and answer. Everyone: omg, this is genius, so brilliance.
#BiasExposed
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Everyone would think the common guy is dumb
Give them a vision to move forward with people.
Salute to his habit of taking a pause he has before answering something. Would love to know how one can learn that skill of not hurrying to answer the question and answer in a relaxed calm way after giving a thought.
I checked the RUclips timer whether the video is stuck or what...But, he took his time that deep to answer. Lesson.
It's crazy how everything he said was somehow poetic
You will always see very intelligent people first think before they respond. They ponder on the question, and weigh the impact and relevance of the answer.
Don't be afraid to ask questions your job can become so much easier when you can compare your work with others tweak it from there your perfect may not be someone else's perfect and remember surprises happen when you least expect it everyone is unique your clientele got the rehearsals your employees should be forever
I work at Apple corporate, obviously things have changed since this video.
Today is a Saturday as I type this comment. Yesterday I was approached by three management staff, out of the blue, and asked to be our Team Lead. I had zero idea this was happening and I promise you this wasn't the cliche corporate thing of, "cold faces, zero emotion... we're giving you more responsibilities on top of everything else." They told me straight to my face, "we want you to grow further" and I'll leave it at that.
This morning I was like, "oh great, I'm already thinking to RUclips Steve Jobs videos for any hint of how to now lead a team I was formerly just working for..." But this video weirdly kinda nailed it.
There are FAR too many companies that HYPE focus on management / managers as the sole bread and butter of companies... As if workers are expendable and should be treated as, one terrible former boss I had said, "trash that's just waiting to be taken out!"
The problem with companies that focus on management is that a top down strategy doesn't work. Everyone who's ever worked for a shitty boss knows this. I know it too... Steve Jobs wasn't an inventor, coder or programmer, so why is he remembered? Because he had a fully natural gift to assemble perfect teams of players to work together. Of course this is combined with his natural charisma too, but his true gift was finding the right people.
So what's the takeaway from my comment if you're still reading? We're all struggling. I like to say, "look, everyone is fighting an invisible war you know nothing about, be nicer to people." -- But people should come first. The team YOU work with should come first. Sadly the VAST majority of management at a crazy amount of companies will never think this way, and that's why there is this stigma that, "workers are waste ready to be discarded" persists..
"look, everyone is fighting an invisible war you know nothing about, be nicer to people"
It's a good phrase!
What a fabulous man who is missed deeply. All intelligent people think before they speak when asked a question.
interesting. by most accounts he was a mean-spirited, ruthless man.
The next longest pause taken was by Elon Musk in Lex Fridman podcast.
The point was never to create a perfect computer....
That pause before he speaks! A lost art!
That wont work in real life as other party is not waiting for your response. this is a receiving type of environment and not a debate or discussion.
The art is overrated. you need high speed back n forth( watch the news channel of usa). people speak slowly in usa not in media where every second counts and you have to get your point across swiftly!
it is called--" TO EARN YOUR PAUSE ". IT IS DONE ON PERFORMANCES NORMALLY! AND steve himself is a great performer!
He took 20 seconds to give his response. Wise man.
Imagine if all CEO's nowadays were like him...I miss him and his spirit of creation, even more the fact that it has never been overshadowed by the loads of money he made! Chapeau!
He would over working you to suicide
Yeah
If steave jobs was still around apple maybe would of been different than what it's doing now
why is everyone treating this man like a fucking saint, i get he was smart but are you being serious right now?
yeah rightwas so good of him to make billions of the backs of poor exploited children. such a great man. fml
"He changed the world! The world was one way! And then Steve Jobs came, and it was another!" What did he do? Somebody, for the love of god. What the freak did that guy do? What he do? He told other people what to invent. "I want my entire music collection in that phone. Get on it!
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New phone can't fit the old charger. This is your hero? This is the guy? This is what all the silence is all about. New phone can't fit the old charger, so you gots to throw it out. It ends up in the ocean around some octopus's neck."
Love ya Bill Burr.
LMAOO
"He's gone, they still came out with another one, right?"
Bill burr is an alcoholic wife beater. He’s an edgelord who’s about to turn 80.
Incredible advice for the workplace!
I like how he always thinks for a while before answering a question. I might start doing that.
good idea 🙂
holy shit, steve had a whole mini acid trip and came out with some gems
It was all the actual acid trips he underwent
Haha
He took this from the heart, he knew his behavior was wrong at apple and he learned and grew to be a better person, very few people can grow like this, he did and he went on to do wonderful things after this.
Was that really just a roundabout way of saying that instead of firing someone, he helps them and gives them a chance to grow?
Yes
Pretty sure...
Lesson #2: it’s OK to be silent and take time to think before you answer.
Steve takes longer time to answer a question everyone just wow look at him thinking so hard that's so cool.
Meanwhile when i take time to answer question literally everyone including teacher if you don't know just go out. And there it is my all confidence goes to zero. It's not a work or activity that we appreciate it's people who we believe is superior than us but they are not.
That's the school system for you. To be fair to Jobs, the guy founded one of the most powerful companies on the planet. He can afford to think about his answer. Not to insult you, but you and I are average.
@@IGamingStation you respect jobs i also respect jobs although you don't know apple company labour problem and how popularity of jobs makes that problem invisible.and ofcourse he is talent popular. Bro no man on earth is pure the more talent genius he is the more evil is from inside
This actually comes through really powerfully in The Movie - it depicts him as someone that has real difficulty in Trusting other people to Do The Work when he asks them to, and is constantly pushing and micromanaging early on.
To get a guest like him at CLASSROOM is the best thing one can have
Great advice for business and family
I am studying for my next week chemistry exam..
But this seemed more important...
ALTERNATIVE ANSWER: 0:37
" and that is... I now take a longer time to answer questions. In order words when I hear a question my first reaction is not to rush in answering it..."
He looks like such a nice guy in this video compared to what I’ve heard about him.
He was sociopathic
He had "the charisma"
That's what made him great apart from his vision
Btw Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is a good read
Charisma is the most utilized tool by sociopaths/psychopaths. If you read about John Wayne Gacy, he was the pillar of his community and everyone loved him. Always be weary of those who are most charismatic and in high power.
He didn't eat people. He was just a perfectionist and when it comes to big companies you gotta be like that feelings don't hold much value.
@@Ghost-vg6iq ooh psychiatrist over here
Absolutely, it's important that every employee learns and grows every day, non-creative tasks can be automated. So one day every employee will be an entrepreneur!
Successful people when they pause to give a careful explanation : "amazing"
Student when pause during presentation : "-50% mark reduction for pausing, you're a failure"
F system
thats what money does
@@ophhate That's what respect does, based on money as well - the most objective standard of value.
I can totally relate to what he is saying. I am mentoring folks and it is not a cake walk especially when you have team members who are not taking ownership of their tasks.
i love how he pauses to seem as if he's thinking very deeply about how to respond, i do the same thing when im holding in a potential shart
Nihilistic filth.
holy, that's a really good advice
to take a longer term rather than fixing the issue at hand and considers it how you'd want to take a person
“How much cheaper it is to manufacture in China”
"how can you take the close ecosystem of your software to only access by paid customer service for a simple apps recovery"
@@NormanReaddis Not really. microsoft only sold software and all the hardware was done by other firms in agreement with microsoft license: dell, hp and all others where windows dominated: 95% of the industry.
so it actually windows eco-system was quite expensive even when they were outsourced. so apple strategy was daunting as it needed all the skills under one roof. And paying in dollars in america was always gonna be hard( over time was the main reason). Sun also did like Apple and went bankrupt before got sold.
they had processing plant, os, java everything under one roof!
Even today microsoft eco system sales are higher than apples: microsoft sales: 250 billion dollars+hp+dell and those make around 220 bil( hp,dell,lenovo: 120+75+25 ish) and there are others too!
And there are other behemoths as well: IBM mainframe still needed for some work and also data centers which are full of linux! Networking equipment ( lan+wireless with 5g is an epic behemoth).
And another whole new world with smart phones which has maximum sales( 5g and above which needs everything to be overhauled)
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the japanese had enough of all that crap and wanna standardize 8k broadcasting( that is a serious task similar to bullet trains). so you need blockbuster capture equpiment, compression engine, than wifi to send all that to nearest data center and than send via optical lines elsewhere( need terrabite links) and do reverse and than display at 8k( think about it)
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so these days outsourcing wont help much as you have to set whole eco-system!
Hahaha thanks. I was looking for a post like that. Would have been way more honest
@@king_has_no_clothskul8635 BORING
@@felipewerner6670 You, me or him?
Steve gave the question some thought before he answered, that is great,most answer almost instantly
The freshman there are my age! Too bad I didn't go to MIT in 1992, I may have been able to see this live!
It was at MIT Sloan, so most there were
MBA students. I went in because before the speech I saw Steve and asked him what he was doing.
Wow, this is actually an insanely valuable point of view.
If you fire a person who screws up something instantly, and look for a better team member, it means you will be under-staffed for a period, it will cost to hire a new employee, and after going through all that phase, that person might turn out to be a screwup on another task.
Asking "who is this person exactly and why s/he fails to do this?", and trying to eliminate the issue would be quite helpful, and these types of situations in work life enhance the bonding among team members. It is meaningful for other team members to somebody try to overcome his personal obstacles to be a better colleague, it is self-devotion in its purest form.
Totale ammirazione per questo genio. Riposa in pace🙏
When we heard the answer we forgot about the pause. Great leader.
You can feel he is talking from bottom of his heart .
Where the farts live.
@@goldfishy Nihilistic filth.
Superb answer. We have an impulse to fix the problem but when you’re building a strong company you need to worry about the source of the problem.
Didn't look like an old man back then but then you realize he was no older than 37 here.
Exactly took 21 Seconds to Answer! Thats some great Confidence and sincere answering.
I get that people are amazed by him taking like 10 seconds to answer, but honestly, I think instead of pointing it out, we should normalize it.
It should be unexceptional to think about a question before responding to it.
In fact, I find it alarming when someone has an answer in the chamber for a question that requires analysis.
We should be pointing out situations where people DON’T take time to answer! Just as much as we acknowledge people for taking the time to be thoughtful, we should be critical of thoughtlessness.
“I want *End to End* Control, *totally incompatible* with *anything.* “
*Woz* : [careful pause] ….computers aren’t supposed to *have* Human Flaws - I’m not building *this* one, with *your’s.* “ [ Wins The Argument ]
DAYUM, that's *deep* - and COLD! 😆 Woz, you legend.
Maybe he learned this from "Apple2 vs Macintosh Divisions Warfare" that he fostered...lol
I still remember myself asking Steve why he took such a long time to answer, right after that speech. He paused a little bit, and it took him almost as much as the time he took on stage. "Dude I was just stoned as fuck, I am better now right? "
lmao
Patience and helpfulness.
While everyone comments super intellectual stuff by dissecting his persona, lemme just scream in silence about his beauty, this is the first time I've seen young steve jobs
If you want to see even younger Steve Jobs, search for the 1984 Mac debut keynote of his.
@@spymit007 it feels surreal TT…thanks
A 20 second pause to gather his toughts - wow
Here is the cheat code. If i can literally just sit around basking in my own happiness and love and self-satisfaction then that short-circuits all of life.
That's the genius of this method. That's its power. You think this is a bug. This is not a bug. This is a feature. This is exactly what you want. You want to short circuit that because you see then it frees you up.
Yeah just getting there on a regular basis and taking it into your everyday life, takes dedication and work.
He learned to trust/have faith in people and their capability to change in the right direction
What an odd lesson to think as most valuable from such a brilliant man. Any decent father instinctively knows this when raising a child. Very telling of the man.
Part of being a good leader is allowing others to work. Considering the fact that a leader is just another role your team. If you feel like you need to do everything then obviously you shouldnt be the one telling people what to do, and would better serve as the worker. His response shows that even at the highest level we all deal with the same problems in the workplace
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It genuinely sucks that he’s gone.
Elon Musk also takes a pause to think before he answers a question. We should all take a lesson from this rather than being unconfortable with silence and quick to fire off a half-baked respinse.
You don't need to compare him with 'gods'
@@ankushtagore4299 um…OK…
Good to hear this advice
Look at the way he says nothing for so long, then says essentially nothing after. Amazingly inspiring.
Look at the RUclipsr who has never been on a team or accomplished anything significant
@@Miles_Goodson_Bangs_Kids bruh stop sucking off jobs. he wasnt a smart or good man. he stole ideas and was a jacked up person overall. you can ignore it b7t that woild just make you ignorant
@@Miles_Goodson_Bangs_Kids oof. Personal insults hurt so good
Actual keanue Reeves in Mit