Wisdom bullet from the wise guy, Guy Kawasaki

        

     

                                                Guy Kawasaki 

                                               Guy Kawasaki and Steve Jobs 

                                         Guy Kawasaki and Richard Branson shake hands each other 

   

      Oh my God, you are labelling yourself a CEO or what ever the so-called for your company that you build right now. The big question is are you ready for that calling? If not you better learn first from any kind of segment and side. Such as from books, from seminar, meetings, films or whatsoever. Ok then, let’s found out our role model that we can follow his path in our business in the long way round. For instance, let’s found out a man namely Guy Kawasaki. For those who never heard this name before. Here is some of the brief of his profile. He worked for Steven Jobs, not only for once or twice but third time. He also a trusted advisor and evangelist for startups and Fortune for 50 companies. What a lot job that we need to learn from of course. I would like to add some of his unique side of him. As we know the CEO of Virgin records is Mr. Richard Branson right. But in this case he polished Kawasaki’s shoes. And, Branson used his own jacket as shine cloth, all in an effort to get Kawasaki to fly to Virgin Atlantic. What lesson we can get from here? Even a famous business man like Richard Branson dare to do that kind of things, which he saw Kawasaki is a worth man to be work for and get along.

     Within a stories like that and of course need a hard work and decades of experiences in the tech industry to be ponder in. Kawasaki has learned more than a little about how the world  works. He’s condensed so much  of his accumulated wisdom into his new book, Wise Guy: Lessons from a life. The book is packed with practical for marketers, enterpreneurs, executives and even people who are not sure what they are want to be . He teach us that motivation can be anything. Conventional wiswom suggest that motivation should be intrinsic. It should come from inside of you, or from the task itself. Never be worried about motivation itself that motivates you, but it kept him studying hard. The nicest motivation which I quote from his word is : don’t worry about what motivates you. What’s important is that you are motivated.

      As we know that Kawasaki’s position was Apple’s chief evangelist, responsible for convincing software developers and customers that Mac was platform worthy of their attention. Once Kawaski jokes about Guy;s golden touch – which is not that anything he touched turned to gold, but instead he touched anything that was gold. That is his words is it is easy to get people excited about a great product, but it is hard to get people exicited about crap. I would like to add again of some Kawasaki’s most interesting experiences and opportunities came from him being open about his personal interest. In one case, he joked in a speech at the Pentagon that he would trade a sought after Mac Computer for a ride in a fighter jet. The quote words of his experience is make your personal interest known.

      Of course all of us have our experience to be ponder on it, so does Kawasaki. That is why he ask us to embrace nepotism. He said that the best opportunities is not come from the job that search in the website, but they came from the personal connection. At the beginning he is start his career , Kawasaki points out that the many key position stemmed from the interventions of relatives and friends. He began his first job at the jewelry designer that come from his friend. That latter led to him taking over sales and honing the skills he would apply through his career. Later on a classmate from Stanford hired Kawasaki for the software evangelist position at apple. A later role as an advisor to the CEO of Motorola was based on a referral from an ex-apple colleague. Kawasaki himself extends help to others when he can. Help people and be generous. It's good karma, and the nerdy punk intern may someday inherit, if not rule, the earth. Plus, your kids may need jobs.