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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Defining leadership principles to emulate...
Know Both the Big Picture and the Details
Everything is important, that success is in the details. - Steve Jobs
Jobs, you could say, had mastered the art of focus; the ability to quiet outside noise and hone his attention to the goal at hand and all the little details in between, with great results. This attitude was applied to issues both large and miniscule. Some CEOs are great at vision; others are managers who know that God is in the details. Jobs was both. Time Warner, CEO Jeff Bewkes says that one of Jobs’ salient traits was his ability to envision overarching strategy while also focusing on the tiniest aspects of design.
Leonardo da
Vinci was the artist but he also mixed all his own paints. He also was a fairly good chemist. He knew about pigments, knew about human anatomy. And combining all of those skills together, the art and the science, the thinking and the doing, was what resulted in the exceptional result.
- Steve Jobs
In 2000, Jobs came up with the grand vision that the personal computer should become a digital hub, for managing a user’s videos, photos and content. Thus Apple got into the personal device business with the iPod and then the iPad. In 2010, he
developed the successor strategy, the hub would move to the cloud and Apple began building a huge server farm so that all users’ content could be uploaded and then seamlessly synced to other personal devices. But even as he was laying out these grand visions, he was fretting over the shape and colour of the screws inside the iMac.
Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain- these concepts- and fitting them all together and kind of continuing to push to fit them together in new and different ways to get what you want.
- Steve Jobs
Every step in the process to achieving the goal matters. From the desired result to the sometimes seemingly small irrelevant stepping stones it takes to get there. It’s important to pay as much attention to the little things as you do the major things as they all eventually come together to the success of a bigger picture.
Contributed by
Oye Jolaoso
*Source: Harvard Business Review
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