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I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter into one of the most creative periods of my life.”
- Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement address, 2005
If ever there were a “Key Man,” it was Steve Jobs.
The story of Jobs’ 13 Pixar years, between Apple incarnations, contains leadership pointers we can all learn from when confronted with loss, failure or immovable objects. Since this is the time of year when we review the past to make plans for the future, and since I recently came across a transcript of an interview I’d done with Steve Jobs during his time in the wilderness, I thought I’d share it with you.
After being ousted in a power struggle within Apple in 1984, eight ears after he’d founded the company, Jobs did not slink off into dark corners to lick his wounds and hurl expletives. Instead, he revolutionized the motion picture industry – buying Lucasfilm Computer Graphics for $10-million in 1986 and turning it into Pixar – recipient of more than two dozen Academy Awards and several billions of dollars in box office sales (not to mention revenue from related marketing products).
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