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New Rumsfeld book applauds late Steve Jobs for ‘standing up to Obama’
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[cfsp key="google_adsense_300x250"]“Tea Party and conservative constitutional groups may be the new targets of the Internal Revenue Service, but former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld reveals in his new book out this week that outspoken businesses critical of the federal government are also singled out by the IRS and Securities and Exchange Commission,” Paul Bedard reports for The Washington Examiner. “In Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life, the former chairman of G.D. Searle & Co. said that business leaders often bite their tongue rather than criticize presidents out of fear the administration will retaliate,” Bedard reports. “In the book, written before news broke about the IRS targeting conservative groups prompted by the Tea Party movement, Rumsfeld suggests that the agency has a record of targeting critics.” Bedard reports, “The book applauds the late Steve Jobs for standing up to President Ob

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Enderle: Tim Cook is toast as Apple CEO
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[cfsp key="google_adsense_300x250"]“It was hard to listen to the second quarter financial report from Apple and not imagine Steve Jobs spinning like a top in his grave,” Rob Enderle writes for CIO. “When Jobs took over Apple, the company was awash with debt, mere months from going bankrupt and selling way too many products to manage,” Enderle writes. “Cook’s stated plan is to eliminate Apple’s cash reserves, increase debt and build a lot more variety into Apple product lines. It reads like he’s planning to return Apple to how it was when Jobs took over—hopefully short of the ‘nearly bankrupt’ part.” MacDailyNews Take: Cook’s stated plan most certainly is not to eliminate Apple’s cash reserves. “Assuming someone at Cook’s level is an idiot isn’t in itself wise; rising to that level requires a certain amount of intelligence and, as COO, if nothing else Cook should understand numbers,” En

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Bloomberg News poll: 71% say Apple has lost its cachet as an industry innovator
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[cfsp key="google_adsense_300x250"]“When Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, Apple (AAPL) investors instantly worried the consumer electronics juggernaut had lost its innovative soul,” Matt Egan reports for FOXBusiness.Increasingly, investors seem to be betting those fears are coming true. “Seventy-one percent of respondents in a newly-released Bloomberg poll say Apple has lost its cachet as an industry innovator, including 28% who say it is permanent and 43% who believe it may just be a temporary issue,” Egan reports. “Another 23% of poll respondents believe Apple remains on top of the industry as an innovator and 6% were unsure, Bloomberg said.” Egan reports, “Apple had long been admired for its groundbreaking inventions, including the iPod, iPhone and iPad. However, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company appears to have ceded some of that innovative ground to rivals like Samsung and Amazon.com.” MacDailyNews Take: Yes, and pigs might

Words of Wisdom for Graduates
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As the 2012-2013 academic year comes to an end, we would like to celebrate the academic success of all graduates. Point Foundation is honored to welcome 19 scholars into our alumni family. We are so proud of all your achievements. We’ve gathered some words of wisdom from some pretty smart folks to impart to you as you enter the next chapter of your life. This slideshow requires JavaScript.

George Ambler – Are You Thinking Big and Aiming High?
Jim Woods Personal Coaching. Live Life On Your Terms.

English: Steve Jobs shows off the white iPhone 4 at the 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference Español: Presentación del iPhone 4 por Steve Jobs en la Worldwide Developers Conference del año 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer Big, bold and compelling vision is what separates great leaders from good leaders. Great leaders set great goals. Great goals are ambitious, challenging, they stretch you and your team, taking you outside of your comfort zone. “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?” — Steve Jobs Sadly too many leaders think small and aim low when setting direction. This is understandable as leaders don’t want to set themselves up to fail, so they remain cautious. There is danger in setting a vision that aims low. Aiming l

“Analog to Digital” Series
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Emotions and lessons
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Our next evolution (part 2) : the rise of the SMART Screen Society.
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Infinite capacity, bounded in a nutshell
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Sizzle at Presentations, The Steve Jobs Way
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The best graduation speech, ever.
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Apple’s billions are building an empire for the future
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[cfsp key="google_adsense_300x250"]“Given that Apple now sits on well over $144.7 billion in liquid resources, there’s lots of discussion about how the company could or should be spending it. What Apple is already doing with its cash is actually more interesting,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider. “Apple now sits on a staggering amount of resources [well over $144.7 billion in liquid resources], much of which has been earned (and remains) outside the United States. The company is now generating so much new cash that it has jumped to the front of the line both in paying its shareholders the most dividends and in paying the U.S. the most taxes (in part because it doesn’t evade taxes by routing domestic sales through other countries as many of its competitors do),” Dilger writes. “Even so, it’s amassing new cash faster than its spending it.” Dilger writes, “If there were someone better equipped than Cook and Apple

Faith # Three stories told by Steve Jobs at Stanford
Positive Words Research

In 2005 the Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a revealing speech to graduating students at Stanford University. This was a year after he was first diagnosed with cancer. In his speech he approached three stories related to his life. He looked back and analyses his life and was amazed by the way that life works. Among the words that were deeply sharing his life, he also said the following words: connecting the dots couldn’t see the value in it trust that it would all work out OK it was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made it wasn’t all romantic I loved it much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on I found it fascinating none of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life it all came back to me of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward…but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later so you have to trust that the dot

Has Apple Lost its Innovative Secret Sauce? Poll Paints Troubling Picture
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  When Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, Apple (AAPL) investors instantly worried the consumer electronics juggernaut had lost its innovative soul. Increasingly, investors seem to be betting those fears are coming true. Seventy-one percent of respondents in a newly-released Bloomberg poll say Apple has lost its cachet as an industry innovator, including 28% who say it is permanent and 43% who believe it may just be a temporary issue. Another 23% of poll respondents believe Apple remains on top of the industry as an innovator and 6% were unsure, Bloomberg said. That sentiment helps explain why Apple’s shares have tumbled 18% so far this year, vastly trailing the Nasdaq 100’s 13% rally and Google’s (GOOG) 28.5% leap. Since topping out at $705.07 on September 21, Apple has plunged 38% through Thursday’s close at $434.58 as investors worry about rising competition from the likes of Google and especially Samsung. Apple had long been admired for its groundbreaking inventions, including

Steve Jobs – Embrace, change and make your mark upon life
Leadership Scrum

Steve Jobs talks about life and encourages us to “Embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it…”  

OUTLIVE YOUR LIFE! – PART 1
BORN TO WIN

The secret to outliving your life, is in learning how to add value to people in whatever field you find yourself – Ignatius Otchere-Asamoah What impression do you want to leave with the world? How do you want to be remembered? What tribute do you want to be paid to you the day you exist this world? What have you done, doing, or planning to do that would outlive your life?  One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, Benjamin Franklin believed that “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” Your significance is not only in doing extraordinary things; but also doing small things with great love.  See, it is better to do small things extremely well than to do colossal things ineffectively.  It is sad to say that most people in this generation are willing to become anybody else but themselv

This way, if I fail miserably, everyone will know about it.
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“Midway along the journey of our life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path.”  I like starting things off with a quote.  So there’s that.  I’ve got three days left of teaching here in Tennessee through the Teach for America program, and I’m about to enter the great unknown.  Hopefully I’m not “midway” through my life (I’d like to get a little past 48), but, like Dante, I’m going to go ahead and wander off the “straight path” for a bit.  If I’m not going to continue teaching (and I’m not), the next step is to begin applying for jobs or graduate schools (I’m not doing that either). BUT, I’m an unmarried, kidless, 24 year old living in a great city, and, thanks to the 12-month salary cycle for teachers, I’m going to be getting paid to do nothing for the next two months.  If there was ever a time to give “living the dream” a go, as

“The only thing in life we have to do is die.”
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I remember being about 6 or 7 and the sudden realisation hitting me that one day I would die. I remember the feeling of surprise. That one day I would be no more.  That I wouldn’t be able to play forever, that I’d not only have to grow up but go beyond growing up… Amusingly, I remember running to my mum; my heart gripped in fear. When you’re 6/7 there is nothing in the world that your mother cannot fix. It is such a beautiful trust you have in her. Your mum seems like a superhero, always checking on you, fixing your mistakes, teaching you, guiding you and probably the hardest part –knowing when to step back and let you make your own mistakes and triumphs. Of course this was one problem that was slightly beyond my mother’s control. I lamented that I didn’t want to die, I guess hoping that my mum would say I wouldn’t have to. This not being possible she assured me that that day would be a long way off. I contented myself with this response and in typical innocent child like fashion, prom

Think Awareness
Think.Healthy.Be.Wealthy

So for today’s blog I thought I would start off with some deep mind set principles. I must mention some of these profound ideas might not make sense right off the bat to most people, so I insist you remain open minded, read it a couple of times and not form an instant opinion. The most common aspect I’ve come across whilst studying all the successful and inspirational leaders in our world such as Ghandi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent, Tony Robbins and Steve Jobs, just to name a few, is self-awareness. Awareness is defined as “the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, or sensory patterns.” In other words SELF awareness is the ability to stop and analyse everything within and around us consciously. The day this concept was brought to my attention my whole world flipped upside down. I started to analyse everything. My thoughts, my behaviour, my family and friend’s behaviour, society and asked myself the classic question “WHY”? Nothing seemed to mak

What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley
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Nikola Tesla. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Last night I tweeted a link to this video, about the legendary scientist Nikola Tesla pitching Silicon Valley venture capitalists, and commented that the truth is sometimes funnier that comedy. And I was surprised by the sheer number of people who agreed with that sentiment. I went to sleep thinking about that reaction, and also thinking about it in the context of the decline of long-term thinking in our society. If Tesla (I assume you know who he is) did indeed walk into a VC meeting, he wouldn’t get the attention or the money for his idea because it wouldn’t fit the time-scale of what venture-capital investments have become. Having followed the business of technology for a long time, I have seen that time-scale get shorter and shorter. I guess it’s the price to be paid for the excesses of the internet bubble of the 1990s. The Bubble After Effects During that time the business changed from funding innovation to funding concep