Comments on: How to live before you die. Listen to what an inspirational leader advises… http://www.jonathanperks.com/how-to-live-before-you-die-listen-to-what-an-inspirational-leader-advises/ Inspirational Leadership Speaker and Board-Level Coach Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:54:15 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Craig Martin http://www.jonathanperks.com/how-to-live-before-you-die-listen-to-what-an-inspirational-leader-advises/comment-page-1/#comment-125 Craig Martin Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:54:15 +0000 http://www.jonathanperks.com/?p=153#comment-125 I love this. Steve Jobs has been a hero of mine since my first job out of college in 1983 when I worked on the advertising launch of the Macintosh at agency Chiat/Day. I briefly met him at an agency party in 1984 in San Francisco. He was 28 years old and already a billionaire. Wow. Let me say up front I consider him a productive narcissist who can be brutal on people for sure. I don't admire that. (See the HBO video from years ago, Pirates of the Silicon Valley. Superb biographical treatment of Jobs and Bill Gates.) Jobs is in my mind a marketing genius and one of the gifts to the world of technology, communications and media. His speech to Stanford graduates is one of the best of its type, and I am always inspired reading or seeing it. I believe 100% in all the principles he talks about. We have one life (that we for sure know of) and one opportunity to give everything we have. "The Glory of God is the human person fully alive." Ireneaus of Lyon Steve Jobs is fully alive. I love this. Steve Jobs has been a hero of mine since my first job out of college in 1983 when I worked on the advertising launch of the Macintosh at agency Chiat/Day. I briefly met him at an agency party in 1984 in San Francisco. He was 28 years old and already a billionaire. Wow.

Let me say up front I consider him a productive narcissist who can be brutal on people for sure. I don’t admire that. (See the HBO video from years ago, Pirates of the Silicon Valley. Superb biographical treatment of Jobs and Bill Gates.)

Jobs is in my mind a marketing genius and one of the gifts to the world of technology, communications and media.

His speech to Stanford graduates is one of the best of its type, and I am always inspired reading or seeing it. I believe 100% in all the principles he talks about. We have one life (that we for sure know of) and one opportunity to give everything we have.

“The Glory of God is the human person fully alive.” Ireneaus of Lyon

Steve Jobs is fully alive.

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