Every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer
What would it mean to prioritize design over chance? Today, "good design" is an aesthetic imperative, and everybody from slackers to yuppies carefully "curates" their outward appearance.
It's true that every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.
Anyone who has held an iDevice or a smoothly machined MacBook has felt the result of Steve Jobs's obsession with visual and experiential perfection.
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Every time I read a management or self-help book, I find myself saying, “That’s fine, but that wasn’t really the hard thing about the situation.” The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy, audacious goal. The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal. The hard thing isn’t hiring great people. The hard thing is when those “great people” develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. The hard thing isn’t setting up an organizational chart. The hard thing is getting people to communicate within the organization that you just designed. The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare.
Just before getting on the plane home we signed deals with two Chinese factories, and officially became the first American ...
