UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

I don’t think there’s any question that Steve Jobs is the greatest CEO\entrepreneur of all time.

Yes, Gates, Rockefeller, Kroc– these guys were all wonders in their own right, who lived and worked in another dimension. But Jobs’ ability to create, execute and create again, to rise, fall and return greater than he was in each previous incarnation– all of this makes him the best the world has ever seen. For the US, a national treasure.

In real life, things don’t come in neat packages. In fact, they are often messy affairs, deadly ones, with consequences that come flying at us with the speed and furor of a Kansas twister. Or worse.

No one knows this better than leaders. They have to face down ugly challenges where there is no right or wrong just bad and worse. And sometimes deadly.

In one way, it’s like the birth of Christ. It set up a line in history that separates all that came before and after it.

That would be the emergence, the rise, of Google.

I am a New Yorker.
A product of New York’s public schools, its mean streets, its melting pot, museums, nightlife, Broadway.

For most of my life I was brimming with pride to proclaim myself a New Yorker. Even when I lived in Paris, I was quick to advise all that my heart, my mind, my persona were reflections of the unique electricity that flowed from the epicenter of everything wise, cool, smart and spectacular.

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It has been more than a half century since James Dean died in a fiery car crash, blowing through the fast lane at age 24.
But in a sense, Dean has never left us– because we won’t let him. The dare devil rebel born in Marion, Indiana  with a compass [...]