In a business, success and failure always occur and it is in the hand of the owner whether to grab success or to accept failure. These success and failure has factors that must be considered in order to accept success and failure. On the side of Steve Jobs, based on the movie, I can enumerate these factors of success and failure that he encountered as a technopreneur , especially on a business. These factors are as follows:
The factors of Failures:
First factor: Too much trust to the employees and to business partners.As I have seen in the movie, Steve Jobs shows too much trust in his employees, entrusting them to make the project plan to be accomplished and showing them the exact design, codes, and everything to them. He never notices that making these can lead to the failure of his being as a technopreneur. Also, as I have seen on the movie, he has too much trust to his business partner like Bill Gates. He shows all the aces that would lead to success of the business. Thus, others will take advantage of it and will try to harm or to edit the project for his personal gain and will try to make the project as his own and show it to the public and start it as his own business.
Though trust is one element in order for the business to gain success, it must not be abused because sometimes it would result to the failure of the business, leaving some trauma in believing and trusting other people. Steve Jobs never imagined that someone would see his ace for the success of the business. Thus it makes also the one factor why Steve Jobs failed as a technopreneur.
Second factor: Steve Jobs cannot control his emotions, especially when it comes to personal problems.
As a technopreneur, controlling emotions is also one element to become a good technopreneur. Personal problems should not be discussed or include when he is in his own business establishment. As I have seen in the movie, when Steve Jobs become angry, it always affects his business, focusing his anger to others particularly to his loyal employees, thus not knowing that they would keep in their heart and may result to some rebellion. With this, employees would be afraid of him if they would like to approach and show projects they have already finished. Also, anger would affect him and would lead him to his downfall as a technopreneur, because if he is in this state, he cannot appreciate what has been created by his employees.
Third factor: Steve Jobs did not look back from where he came from and too much pride.
“People who never look back from where they came from, don’t have somewhere else to go” as one of the common Filipino quotation that is translated only in English, is really true. Steve Jobs as he is on the top as a technopreneur, never look back to where he came from. He never looks back to the people who help him. As he is on his success, his pride goes up as he is also going up to the technopreneur world. He never humble his self again as he is on the top, underestimating people that he never knew the ability and he gives over recognition to his self that the thing he thinks is better than that of others.
Fourth factor: Steve Jobs is self-centered
Steve Jobs as shown in the movie is self-centered. He only considers himself not knowing the feeling of others like what would they feel if he would get angry. He is insensitive with his words and actions, not knowing that he hurt others of what he said and what he acts.
The Factors of success:
First factor: Steve Jobs has a good ideas and putting it in action.
As I have seen in the movie, Steve Jobs has really good ideas conserved in his mind. He can add capabilities on the things immediately just by seeing it and by knowing its parts needed. When Steve Jobs has an idea, he takes action of it immediately, so that the desired idea in his mind would come in reality even though other thinks it is impossible. He never thinks of failure as long as he can have ideas in his mind that he can create products or to make products according to what he have seen.
Second factor: Steve Jobs believes always on his self.
Steve Jobs on the movie that can be shown as a confident person, he never surrenders though he has only limited time to show his projects. He always believes that he can gain the trust of the investors around him. He always believes that the products he has made would have great impact to the customers, thus making them to buy the product he made.
Third factor: Steve Jobs always looks forward and observant to his environment.
Steve Jobs never ended up just thinking of the present, he always looks forward to what will happen for tomorrow. He is always futuristic. He always considers future as part of his success on what he would like to do. He always considers the possible consequences that would happen in the future time. Also, Steve Jobs is observant to his environment, he can innovate things just by mere observing In the environment he is with.
To some up all, Steve Jobs has a good communication skills and a good leadership. Though in communicating he sometimes fails, but he is also good in it. He fails because sometimes he includes his personal emotions that would lead to misunderstanding to his employees. But still, he is has a good communication since he can handle his business and employees efficiently, though sometimes he overacts in it. He is also a good leader since he can motivate his team to create projects, and never inject to their thought of making failure of the project they are making. He possesses the characteristics of becoming a good technopreneur in this world. Since he is still a human, he is not perfect and he needs to adjust to different situations that would occur to the business. He has shown so much trust, though it is good to have this kind of attitude, but it must have limitations in showing it to others so that there would be no advantage that can be seen by others.
2. How do you see yourself as a technopreneur? Becoming a technopreneur is like a thorn for me. It is like walking with a long distance, walking in a road that is full of snake ready to bite you anytime and anywhere. It is like believing on something that would impossibly happen and it is like a war between heart and mind, a battle of trust and ideas. To frankly say, I don’t really like to become a businessman or a technopreneur though my mother and father use to be with it. I do not really like business for some reason that I don’t know why I do not like it. For me becoming a technopreneur would cause me too much time to master it; that is to say to avoid failure and must be in success always, though it is just only what is running on my mind when the term “business” is talk about.
What is technopreneurship and what is a technopreneur? I just have only to answer these questions first. Technopreneurship as defined in the Internet as I search it in google, “it is the combination of technology and the entrepreneurship that can be also stated as business”. Meaning to say, it is business employing technology in it or to fully understand it, it is business plus technology. So as we have already defined technopreneurship we can define now the term technopreneur. In my own words, technopreneur is the person who is behind the business plus technology. He/she is the one who owns the business and manage it in order for it to grow and to gain success and avoid failures that may occur.
These terms as I heard of it in our school, for it is our subject, are only new to me. I do not have any knowledge of it as to what it is and why it is needed. Thus as to answer the question; “How can you see yourself as a technopreneur?” I can only say that I cannot really relate my self as a technopreneur. I don’t really think if I am really fit for it and it never came into my mind; that is to say, to become a business owner and become a technopreneur in order to support my self and my family in the future progress of my life.
Since technology is involved to become a technopreneur, which is one of the things that I must familiarize with and to know better about its trends and uses. Since I had grown in a place where trees and mountains are all can be seen, technology is so hard to be known, I only know only just few of it like television, radio, cars and etc. I’ve never seen a telephone until I am twelve years of age and I only know computers as like as a family computer which I always like to play just to pass the time. I always see people doing their works manually like those people who are working on their farm. To state it more clearly, I am a late bloomer when it comes to latest trends of technology, its latest capabilities, its uses to people, its benefits and how it works.
I can’t see my self as a technopreneur since I am afraid that the business that I would start will just be considered failure; thus, I am just wasting my time and money whenever I would enter this kind of life, to live a life just for business. Also, I am afraid to become one of it because mostly of fresh companies that I have seen will immediately close though they are just new then it run to mind that to manage a business or to start a business is really hard and if I would going to enter to it, I can only think of failure rather than to think of success since I grow up in this world full of negative thoughts in my mind.
In my mind, to become a technopreneur, I think I need to master some of the characteristics or shall we say I need to learn some of the good attitudes of a technopreneur to attain. These characteristics that I need to have or to master are as follows:
Self-confidence; in this aspect, I am really weak and this is one of the attitudes that is really important if I want to become a technopreneur and to conclude, this is also the one attitude that I lack the most. By nature, by birth, by personality, I am really shy. I can’t talk to others when I need to. I cannot straight forward to the people I am transacting with. I am afraid to say my opinion and ideas even though these are right and better sometimes. I cannot talk plainly and straightly when I talk to others which are only new to me and I have only met for the first time. Thus, technopreneur has to do something with business, and business requires this kind of characteristic in order to survive. Since in a business, there are always new customers that would come and go.
To conclude this, I lack cannot trust of my self even though I am the one who is controlling my own self.
Risk-taking; In this aspect, I am also very weak since before to make a move I always ensure that when I do that move I would gain a one hundred percent success in doing so. Thus in a business firm, risk taking is also important in order for it to grow and to gain success but of course of fifty-fifty chance because in doing so failure may also occur. I never take a risk and I always end up making move with an advantage so that I would be success on what I would do. Thus, to conclude this, thus I lack this kind of characteristic or attitude; I cannot really see myself as to become a technopreneur.
Being a futuristic person; I also lack this kind of characteristic or attitude, since technology is involved and when we talk of technology, we no longer talk only about present but also the future. In a business, an idea that may help the business to grow in the future is really needed. Thus, in my real life situation, being futuristic is not in me because I always end up just depending on the present time rather than to depend on future that who knows tomorrow I am dead and there is no more tomorrow for me. I always depend on present because I believe in the quotation: “One today is better than two tomorrow”.
Thus in technopreneurship, technopreneur must learn not jus only how to manage and control but also, how to lead his employees in any situation that they may face. Thus, my answer to this question is that, I cannot see my self as a technopreneur since I always like to end up as to take orders and follow it rather than I am the one who is commanding. I want just to become an employee and I enjoy taking orders and doing it and I also want to become an employee that works always just for the benefit of others and for my self. I never really grumble to money, but I only like to live in a simple life and a simple manner where I cannot think so much of anything just like in a business. Also, when it comes to business, I am lazy; But, if my mind would change, because I am just a human, then there would be possibility that I would take self-confidence, take the risk and think too much of the future. I just only need to master this and then start the business that I want to build, yet for me I cannot really consider my self as a technopreneur, I need to learn so much things in order for me to become one of it.
3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not? Every people in this world who become successive to their lives, to their works and to their businesses is holding or admiring people who become the reason for the success. Some become the reason; it is because when they see that a certain person possesses a good quality or attitude and characteristic and is also successive in live, thus, they become the reason for some, following their ways and what they believe. But as to the question; “Would you take the same career path as Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?”; then I would say every person in this world have uniqueness and with regards to Steve Jobs in one point I may follow him but on the other hand I will not.
Every person in this world is unique. Why do I need to follow the path of a certain person? If I follow his/her path, will I become also like him/her? Every person knows how to live in different places, in different time and in different temperature. He/she can formulate a way in order him/her to live in this cruel world that we have. He/she can motivate his self to find foods, shelter and primary sources in order for him/her to live. If I follow his/her path, would it be an advantage in part of me? These are the questions running through into my mind as I heard that I need to follow a certain person, that I shall need to follow him in order for me become successful and in order for me to live. Every person in this world has the right to live in a way that he wants to.
If it is in the case of Steve Jobs, as shown in the movie, if I am going to decide whether to follow his career path or not, my perspective would be on both side; either I agree and not. Why I come up with this decision or perspective? It is because Steve Jobs also possess characteristics or attitudes that could really help us to build ourselves if we want to enter into a business firms. But also, he has the characteristics or attitudes that would lead us also to our fall and it is not good because if business is talked about, I desire success not failure, if we follow his attitude. If career path is talked about, then I would say I will follow his path and at the same time I will not follow his path.
At one point I will follow his career path, since I am an information technology student and I have so many plans in my life. If I want to be successful then I need to become like Steve Jobs, to become a businessman. Also, as I am an information technology student I need to think of some work that would gain me worth much more than what I am expecting. As an information technology student, I do not need only to focus to my self but also to others; that they can gain something from me. I would also follow his career path on one point, since money is really a great need of today’s life thus as shown in the movie, money is just like a river; sometimes flowing rapidly, sometimes flowing smoothly and sometimes flowing slowly. Thus in his career, it is hard since he manage and control the company on his own hand and just only by one mistake it can be broke down into pieces and will to start again from the start.
Also I will follow his career path in order to help other people, especially those who are taking up information technology and those people who are really illiterate and using computers and technologies so that they are not ignorant anymore when it comes to technology. It just because, I can still see that; there are still some other people who do not know how to use a computer or some of the latest technology especially those people who live among mountain places. Also, I will follow his career path in order to help our country to eliminate job problems even though just a little amount of elimination.
On the other hand, as a turning point for me for the other side, I will not follow the career path of Steve Jobs. It is because laziness is always present inside of me, I just only seat and always relax and just letting things to pass by just like Juan Tamad of the Filipino literature story. I really do not feel that my life in the future would become a businessman but rather I feel that I would become only a employee who works on a company gaining salary that is just enough for me and for my family, thus I love this kind of career to serve and to work. I do not like to follow his career path, since business is really hard to manage and control and to lead especially the people that is working for you. Though leading people, I think, is essential to me yet at some degree I lack this kind of attitude, I cannot motivate others to do their work, because at the end I am the one who finishes the work. Also, in following the career path of Steve Job, problems regarding trust and life are very prone to danger. I may trust the wrong person and thus it would to my ruin and to the destruction of everything that is present to me.
I do not want to follow the career path of Steve Jobs, since in a business you need to have a lot of ideas so that you can maintain your business’ progress, to stay or make it always on top or on below otherwise. When it comes to the attitude of Steve Jobs, I will not follow him because it may be become the reason for the ruin of the business or the career that I would undertake.
Thus to conclude this, I would still remain and just believe to my self as what career should I pursue, either to become an employer or to become an employee. And to say this, I would not follow Steve Jobs for I have also my own idea to become successive, for my desires are not in making business who always command and making orders to those who are below to me. I will still follow my will, and will try creating my own career path without admiring other people or without preferring to other people’s career path. It is just like choosing a road between the narrow and the wide road, but still, I would enter the narrow road rather than to enter the wide road. Whatever would be the result, and then I would say come what may. I will just believe on what I can do without looking to other people’s career and I would just believe in what has planned to me by God.
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