Posted by Traveling Salesman at 8/2/2012 8:43 PM
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One benefit of being a road warrior is I get a lot of time to listen to the radio and also books on CD’s. A few months ago I made comments about the Steve Jobs biography that was published shortly after he died. Great business book with very interesting insights on Apple and on Jobs. Right now I am in the process of listening to the Walt Disney biography. I’ve always enjoyed Disney products including watching the movies as a kid and then again enjoying the movies and theme parks when I had my own kids. I still like Disney stuff.The similarities between Steve Jobs and Walt Disney are uncanny. Not so much that they were similar personalities (though, in some aspects there are similarities) but rather they were both driven by producing the very best products they could imagine and envision. Both men put their companies in dangerously precarious financial positions as they re-invested everything they had in order to produce new products never before imagined. Profit was never really the main driving force for either man, rather they were both driven by a genius vision of what could be. Neither man personally developed the products that made them great. (…)
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