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Great expectations

The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson – Harvard Business Review – 2012 It’s important to appreciate that Jobs’s rudeness and roughness were accompanied by an ability to be inspirational. He infused Apple employees with an abiding passion … more

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Final words

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs New York Times – MONA SIMPSON – Oct 30, 2011 Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times. Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at … more

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Pilgrim’s Progress? Steve Jobs the quasi spiritualist

In his younger days, Steve Jobs traveled to India with a friend in search of a spiritual experience, but he didn’t realize that India – or the holy tirtha – had already come to him in the person of A.C. … more

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Hare Krishna, Steve Jobs

For a while in his youth, every week, Steve Jobs used to walk seven miles across town to the Hare Krishna temple for the Sunday feast. He was a life-long vegetarian. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 Wired – Oct 5, … more

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