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The work I'm doing today gets me one step closer to the work I should be doing tomorrow. And that the way I learn this is by trying, failing, networking and experimenting. I'll stop doing that when I'm dead.

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While I did complete high school, I would have to say that it was by the skin of my teeth. My education ever since then has been one that I got on the job and I consider myself a very well-educated person at this point!
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By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.
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Apple made tools that helped people express their creativity and Steve Jobs knew that so he told that story well. But Facebook makes tools that help people connect and Mark Zuckerberg is hardly a story-teller. Nevertheless, he's become a leader because his products do such a good job of solving a problem.
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I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.
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Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy.
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That doesn't mean we should be doing it, though. We should always be carving back those things that are comfortable and institutionalized but not necessarily impactful.
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The disruption caused by globalization and technology (what Tom Friedman calls hyperconnectedness) will be around for the rest of our professional lives.
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In companies, there are three activities that should be labeled better. First there is the CORE which is the thing the company does that its customers pay it to do.
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Still, it formed one of my basic beliefs about success which is this: most of the time, success can be measured in terms of how much more than others you have of something that's in short supply. This includes money, reputation, respect, etc.
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Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.
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My fighting spirit has often seemed out of place.
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MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.
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During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.
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As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of outsider status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.
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I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.
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