Reymar Taleon's Corner

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1.What are the factors that contributed to the success and failure of Steve Jobs as a technopreneur?

“Pirates of the silicon valley” the story talks about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, both are well-known person in the world of high technology and computer industry because of their historic contribution in rising of the computer age. The movie documents the rise of the home computer (personal computer) through the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft.

Once an IT expert said that “success is a critical factor in everyone's life and everybody thrives for the same on less or more extent.” In ones success personality and attitude plays an important role in achieving success. To succeed in life, you need to impress your clients you need to display the able ness and preparation on your part, which shows and make others think that you are eligible for some work and can be fully entrusted with it. In such situation your personality, your attitude, your confidence, the way you speak and turn situations in your favor, your tactics, play an important role in deciding if your client is going to trust you or not. In the movie there are some factors considered in Steve jobs success and failures especially in his personality and behaviors.

Steve Jobs a business magnate, inventor, innovator and a successful person of his time. He is one of the reasons why we have this high technology in our days his own company producing a new trend since now and then. However, Steve as a successful person is also experiencing failures or downfall. There are some factors that contributed to his success as a technopreneur.

One is being intelligent, Steve using his knowledge made a great impact or start in the computer industry. Through his intelligent he was able to invent or develop the personal computer which is very useful nowadays. The progress of his company is also rooted through his mind. A site has found how to explain a part of it. Shrewd or sharp might be a better word. Steve always seems to make the right moves. Likewise, successful entrepreneurs seem to have intuitive good judgment when making complex business decisions. And on the kind of charisma Steve have, he could impatiently close the deal by his wooing tactics and amazing scheme on sales-talk.

Steve as a leader is different from most of his peers in that he takes personal responsibility for what Apple makes and how those products feel to the user. He directs the design process from start to finish, asking endless questions, expressing often conflicting opinions, unfailingly pushing the company toward better, more useful products. The sort of decisions that at most companies are considered finishing touches-- are to Jobs the very heart of the user experience and so are at the core of the design process.

Steve was reportedly an enigma to many at his office as well as people in business circles. He was very sweet and seductive when wooing prospective employees or when finalizing a deal with business partners. He would praise and inspire his employees in many creative and unimaginable ways. Even tough he did not really govern his team as good as what a leader must have, he his good leader of his company providing new products for their progress and success. His creative idea also leads to the peak of his career as a businessman and as technopreneur. Pirating ones work is not a good deed but for him it is one of the reasons why he has this idea and improves it and become his key to earn money and have a progressive company.

However, as a successful person Steve also experienced failures because of some factors;

Being self centered – Steve jobs only thinks of his own goods and for the progress of his company even though it can cause bad effects to his relationship with his colleagues, what he always think is for the benefits of his own and not thinking the others. He did not also give importance to his co-founder Wozniak, he did not show good relationship when he is on the way to his carrier.

In other cases he aimed to be ahead of everyone by enslaving his workers to work for his company and by out smarting everyone else if necessary just to have what it is that he wanted. He also looks down on his co workers like when there is applying on his company and telling them that they are not good enough to be in Apple.

Another factor is that upon arising his adopt knowledge, his learning’s makes him overoptimistic which he thinks that he can make whatever he wants to do and he makes his team inside his company without asking the other employees and leads to competitions and because of that he lost his one true friend Steve Wozniak. And all of those led to him being fired from apple which is his own company. Another is negative reinforcement- Steve Jobs is very inconsiderate to his employees and always rush on the things he wants to do.

I can also say that he is somehow a perfectionist, he only chooses the best of the best people as employees, and always wanted them to work. To do things in the way he is paying them for, not thinking or maybe not just minding that he is almost killing them already, pushing them to their limits. That kind of attitude brought him to failure and away from the people around him, his employees, friends, and even family but he did not mind at all.

If I will going to sum up all of his experiences that made him reach the peak of his career, factors to his success and failure he also learn to change and become a more successful technopreneur and continue providing and producing latest trend technology. As a student sharing my idea about this certain situation I can say that if we finally achieved our goals in life, we should learn to look back where we started and appreciate those persons who became part of our success.

2.How do you see yourself as a technopreneur?

Technopreneurship is really new to me. Upon enrolling this subject and starting the discussion I knew that technopreneurship is something to do with business collaborated with a high technology. In our generations today we are aware of the new inventions and latest trends of our modern world. As an IT student it is favorable on my part to engage my self as a technopreneur in the near future.But how can I achieve this goal? To be a technopreneur there are some things to consider. As what I saw in the movie “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” personality is one factor to be consider as a technopreneur as well as traits and ability as a person to have a successful career.

Me myself as a technopreneur I have to be observant in the world of technology, I should look into the latest trend and technology. In the fact that our technology as a fast track, releasing a new version or products everyday. I must aware of this improved and high technology today because as a venture capitalist of the near future it is important to know what the latest trends in the technology industry or world market. As a technopreneur also I must learn to respect my co employees and learn to deal with them unlike Steve Jobs he did not give respect or importance to his employers and it cause failure in his career.

I need to be more focus on what business I am going to indulge myself. I must be strong enough to face the challenges that I may encounter in the world of technoprenuership. I need to think about my own business and make more innovation to upgrade my business and my services. I must see business as the milestone for me so that I can reach the peak of my career and will help my family, friends and colleagues. I must accept failure as a new learning for me so that I can avoid those mistakes in case that I will encounter it. I will control and balance my problems as well, whether in my family or employers.

As a technopreneur also I would be creative enough in running my business especially in the field of business where I may engage myself. Being a tehnopreneur I must be good leader and a determined one. A good leader has the ability to control and direct a company as a whole. And in that day after the experiences I have been through while still studying and on the starting period of the business, I can tell that I have learned a lot from it and could get something from it and could figured out how to cope and improve myself more. Then I can now have the charisma on controlling especially the employees to do what the company needs for the better of it and in control always on the situation and events on whatever plans and decisions of the company may come up as a result.

In other words, I can be a man of authority whom they would give much respect the way of respect I will give them. As a leader it comprises the confidence you must have. In dealing and handling people and business self-confidence is in need. New ideas along the way may come up and as a technopreneur we must have the confidence to push our ideas and goals, of course it will boost our confidence if we are always in control of any situation that may happen and during this stage the more persistent we would be in pursuit of our goals.

And because a business is a wide arena for competition especially when there many industries that promoting the same concept as your company rising. I would have the ability to have a never ending in search and sense of urgency to do something. It is sometimes hard to stay on this stage but as a person who never stops believing our energy to do so must be maintained. I must have the ability to conceptualize things. It helps us to be at ease when chaos came. Also it helps ourselves to be focused on the business because we can already determine our capacity in times of troubles. Because of this you can have the ability of control and that you have in you a superior quality that makes your subordinates just do what you want them to do because of that kind of ability.

As a technopreneur relating it to my course I will produce my own hardwares, applications and softwares, applications that will help our modern world especially in the field of education. Creating this softwares and applications that will help and make the people benefit can give a big impact in the community and will increase the sale of the company. I also want to be a technopreneur who creates and develop system for certain companies, a system that is more secure user friendly and that is safe to the nature.

Entering in the world of technopreneurship, you must have the reasons why you do such things and need to success. You must consider the outcome of your business. The reason why I am stating those things above is to have a successful life in which I can satisfy my wants and needs. Money play an important role in our life to support in our daily needs and to buy the thing s that we need but loving it is another thing,

As a technopreneur I will put GOD as the center of my life because with the above mentioned can never achieved without him. In case that I can reached this goal as a technopreneurship, I will handle it carefully in order to progress more and bear in mind that I am the one who building my own career and will professionally take care of it and improve to every level of it. I am the type of person who will grab every opportunity especially when it comes to success and reaching my goals.

3. Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?

Steve Jobs is a smart, business minded, magnate inventor and a brilliant successful person. He is also the founder and owner of the Apple Company. The question is though he is a successful person; would I take the same career path that he took? My answer is no. I am not saying that I am not aiming for success in life or to reach my goal. But the way he reaches the peak of his career is not the same thing I want to do in the near future. Pirating others work without putting credits on it, outsmarting someone’s knowledge, and almost stepping other people just to provide success in life. It is not the path that I want to reached success; I better lead and had my on path in achieving my goals.

Somehow, it is not easy to transform a small garage in a big company now, promoting and producing the latest trend of high technology of modern world. Based in the movie “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” Steve is somehow a self-centered person, always want his employers to work and work just to finish the projects and a great pirates. Other aspects that I will not follow and I would cite the work ethic and his relationship to his employees and his co-founders. He really wants his employees to finish the given project even without sleep. He only thinks for his own goods.

I could directly say he does not have the right manners to treat his employees and he is very insensitive of their health, and feelings. As a technopreneur, you should also care of your employees to gain loyalty and respect. He is so cruel that he insults other people because of his obsession to innovation and new products. I remember in the movie when he ask “are you still a virgin” to the person who is applying to their company. It seems that he did not show privacy of ones personality and did not show respect.

The way he work is so appalling, going to the office wearing short and fronting to his clients/customers and even raising his feet to the table while having a conversation. He does not attain this we called professionalism as an employee.
I know in my own knowledge and way I can have the right path and lead it for the better outcome only if it is that’s the Gods plan for me. I am in the process of molding myself as a person, students and a child in the family. Even though I did not know what career I am going to have after my studies, I am aiming for a satisfied life. All of us are aiming for success in different ways and with different goals to be achieved.

I myself, I could say that I have a unique character that only me in the world have it. A character that only I have it and attain it, character as a person that cannot be stolen by anyone. That also depict to the application to each individual’s work that must take care of it to avoid copying by those person who pirates others work. As a professional you must know “originality” that you yourself has done and achieved through your own idea.
Another things that leads me to conclude that I will not take the same career path as Steve Jobs is his quality as a rush, risk taker and undesirable value towards his workers. I am the type of person that is grabbing an opportunity to have what I want and what I need. But it is not the same as Steve Jobs for being a risk taker; I am coward in some ways especially when I am not sure what the outcome is but I have this asset of not giving up and pursue if myself can.

However, though Steve Jobs did not attain some good qualities as a technopreneur or what we call professionalism in ones work. The world owed him and become an inspiration to everyone who as a passion in technology especially in computer industry. He has a great contribution in modernization of his work today and for a near future.I myself having a dreams and goals to success, or whatever career I may have in the future. Steve Jobs remains as an inspiration for me as a student wanting to be like him who is gaining a success now. And if ever I will come to take the path of Steve Jobs career it would never suit me as a person for the reason I am not much of a risk-taker type, but I will take opportunities, but not as aggressive and rush as Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs as a successful person and not taking the same career that he took does not mean that I did not want to be a successful one. I just want to be unique in taking my own path and leads with professionalism. In order to have this I must have a desirable value towards people around me and have a good ethnic in work.

In conclusion, the essay I have stated above is the reasons that I have thought of why I did not want to take the same career part as Steve Jobs. As a technopreneur you are the one who makes your career path, you just made those successful persons as an inspiration to reach the peak of your success. I have a unique passion as a technopreneur, learning my mistakes, appreciating every achievement I have and giving importance to the people who became the part of my journey towards success. According to Emerson, “success is to laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!” This saying makes me realized that everyday is a success as long as you lived and put God as a center of your life whether as a technopreneur or not.





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Your reflections/insights on your personal traits test

As a human being we have each own and unique personality and ability. Each of us has its own assets and characters as a person. Sometimes we encounter such problems, difficulties and sufferings to interpret how we handle our traits and behavior as a person. It is also part of purification of ones individual, experiencing those problems. In this case we must know ourselves, who we really are. It is quoted that “Personality has the power to open many doors, but character must keep them open”. It simply means that our personality can bring or lead to our success but the character as a person remains our success and nourished it.

In connection to this last August 14, 2010 in our technopreneurship subject we have evaluated by our personality traits and it aims to describe one’s person’s character. The result of my test is 38 and is evaluated as “somewhat technopreneural” meaning I am capable a technopreneur someday and creating a business that can help me to satisfy my wants and needs. I’m quite confused on the questions because most likely, questions deals and tests on whether I’m a potential technoprenuer in the future. I knew the subject technopreneur I’m dealing with that’s why I am so careful in answering the questions and somehow it deals with money also. 

The test really had an impact or affects me because as an individual it is not easy to be a capable of being a technopreneur. Nowadays there are many unemployed or jobless person and it is because they cannot create their own business or let say a technopreneurship. Since I am already in line in this technopreneurship industry because it is quietly related to my course, the result of the exam made me to pursue may goal as a technopreneur. However involving ones self in this field is not easy that’s why I am exploring things right now ,that can help me achieved what I want in the future.

The questions in the test comprise the personality as a person dealing with technopreneurship. I remember some questions there and it talks about if I like a challenging experience, if I prioritize money first, if I want to be rich, open in someone’s idea, if I can handle criticism, and if I am open to socialize within the community or individuals. These questions boggled my mind and made me to answer carefully because honestly I don’t know myself as a whole yet. People change as well as their behaviors and characteristics that’s why while answering those question I quietly asked my first self “ Did I choose the right answer? “ Oh. I find it more interesting on what and who am I in the future.
As a person I am open for many challenging experiences because I know that it is a part of our life. How can we learn from our mistakes of we can’t experienced it. Life changes and we encounter those suffering because it is a part of ones purification. In the near future I can see myself facing those challenges especially in line with my course today. I can only say that I must be open to all the possibilities that may come in my life and I must be ready I facing it. We cannot escape problems or any challenges; no individual is exempted on it. It only depends on how we handle those challenges and how accept it as person. All of us commit mistakes and as a person we must not afraid of it. Next is money, some says that we cannot live without money and I said oxygen is more important. heheh…

Seriously, money is one of the essential needs of a person and some says that money is important in ones life. Yes! It is. Money is important and we need it to satisfy our wants and needs but don’t love it for loving money made an individual a selfish one. This is the main reason why people are getting ridiculous and cruel nowadays because of money. They killed their fellow beings just to have money and it is very disgusting as an individual. I as a student I can say that somehow, money is important. How can I go to school if I have no money to pay as a fare? But I did not prioritize it and it does not make me a reason to pursue my goal. Making money as a motivation to succeed in life is not the ideal. First, in order to be successful, one must acquire necessary abilities and skills and most of all one must have the passion on his chosen field of endeavor. As what Steve Job said “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.” It is a great motivation for me that just doing wonderful things in life made me satisfy and not prioritizing money.

As a technopreneur one must learn to accept criticism because it is all part of our lives as well as of the business. In order to misinterpret it we should be more open minded to the things they are uttering to us. I view criticisms negatively but if I just look deeply, criticisms actually important to us. Some view criticism as a destructive one for it tends you to out of focus in what work you are doing but for me it is a constructive way in which I consider it as a challenge to me. I can tell you that it’s not easy to handle criticisms. If I heard criticisms I just take it, maybe sometimes it make me mad, I suck it up and change if needed. I guess one important thing why I can usually handle criticisms is that I know myself and the things I’m good at and of I’m not. I did not even care on what they say because I know myself more and I can show it to them on what I have and in what particular field I am good at, It just a matter of trust in ones self and confidence.

The next thing is if I am open enough to socialize within the community or individuals. In order to have as successful career one must not only have the passion to his work but also have good interpersonal skills. One most acquire this we call a good communicating skill, the way he/she communicates or socialize to the clients or peers. I do think that a person who is poor in interpersonal skill cannot gain more friends or colleagues. I am really fun of meeting new people and socializing with them. Aside from fun to be with friends whom I really enjoy with, gaining and meeting new different people and learning through them really interests me and gives me enthusiasm. It is not just I need someone in common to share with, talk with and laugh with, but it is because of our different situations in life that could also give me inspirations and motivations that could provide me a new learning and could define the real identity of who I am and who I wanted to be in the future as a great person. In relation to technopreneurial, it is also a technopreneur’s asset to be a sociable to person around you. Businesses not just involve structures nor the managements, it is also a means of leveling up which involve people. Without the people, there could be no business. 

Those questions stated in the personality test as well as the things I have stated above is really useful enough to know myself and evaluate if I am capable enough to handle a business in the near future or to be a technopreneur. Having information about personality types and preferences can be quite important to us. Once we understand the basic personality preferences under which people operate, as well as your own preferences, we can begin to find ways to more effectively work with opposite types or even your own type. Through determining the type of person with and comparing your weakness and strength with them, you can find ways to build upon people's strengths and improve many group activities. Those activities help a person to be a good technopreneur and able to strengthen his/her personality engaging to what field he/she may choose.

Through the test we had taken, I realized that to be a good technopreneur you don’t just have to think of your business alone .You doesn’t need to focus on producing money and becoming very rich. Even though it is essential in making a business, we must also consider the factors to our success and the people who are exerting within the business. We must be good in interacting with them and showing the best leadership to them. Because without their functions we cannot create a business and it is useless if we are the only one who runs it. Another thing is think of yourself and not only your business. As what I have said we must be emotionally strong and have a good relationship towards others and posses the kind of personalities that is best suit in the chosen field of your endeavors. That in order to have success in ones goal in life we must be look the negative part of our personality so that we can change and manage ourselves in times that we are facing some problems and challenges in our career in the near future. And the other thing is we must learn to accept our own mistakes for accepting it makes us a better person or a good businessman and technopreneur’s as well. Once we commit mistakes it is another chance to made things right, how can we learn from it if we cannot experienced it .Right? Thus I made me think that I must be ready enough to face those mistakes in life especially as a businessman someday. I must have this we call confidence in facing the problems in this field. I am already in line with this so I must take the risk if there is opportunity.

With the things I have stated above personality traits helps us to know more ourselves and understand what a technopreneur or businessman is. To made us think that a technopreneur must posses a good personality traits, especially character and behavior. Even though me myself I did not think to be a business man someday but because of this test I am able to have courage to be a technopreneur someday and I am into with it. I just need to engaged myself in the activities that can nourished my emotional, mental, physical and spiritual aspects in which I can used in becoming a business man in the future. With those reflections or insights on my personal traits test as what I know about what is really a personal trait is the distinguishing qualities or characteristics of a person or it refers to the style or manner in which you interact with the world. They refer more to how you do things rather than what you do. 

Generally, I can say that I possess the character of a technopreneur or businessman in the near future and may be the source of my daily life needs and wants. I realized also that I must be an employer and not an employee who is hiring workers to contribute with in the business. And because of these personality traits I am able to know that what’s important is the character, behavior or traits of the person in order to remain the door of success open. That as businessman we must know how to deal or socialized with the people around us, learn to accept criticism, learn to accept mistakes and let money as an essential needs in the business but avoid loving it and to consider our own self while running a business.




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My Purpose in life is....

My purpose in life is to live a happy and satisfied life of mine. 
To satisfy my wants and needs as a person and to attain 
success! As a student my purpose in life is to finish my course at the right time in order to 
have a good future and it is the only thing i can 
be proud of. To become a productive person, in this place where I am living right 
now and to be a good model to everyone,that's my purpose in life.
     

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What are the lessons that you learned after reading the commencement address of Steve Jobs?




What are the lessons that you learned after reading the commencement address of Steve Jobs?

The commencement of Steve jobs talks about let say three chapters of his life, the connecting of the dots, lost and love and death.As I read the commencement and reflect it on my own. Some things really came up into my mind and it is really a mystery to me on how he attained his success through those experiences... It is always a part of our life to have and experience this sufferings and happiness and I always know that it is only a part of ones life's purification.

I learned such lessons after reading Steve Jobs commencement, one of the quoted sentence got my attention "And the only way to do great work is to LOVE what you do" these really fits to my principle as a person. I really love the thing I always do and its not a deal to me whether its a wrong or good one. In Steve jobs life he I found it interesting and exciting one especially to the chapter of his love and lost and death.

I also learned how to value things and the person we loved and to go back from where we came from. According to Steve Jobs we cannot connect the dots looking forward if we will not go back to the past. And it is always a good thing to always think of your past life in order to have a good future.We will not also to take for granted every opportunities to came and treat it as a steeping stone to our success.

To sum up all the things I have learned in Steve Jobs commencement it is really a good help to me as a student knowing some experiences that I may encounter in the future and how to live with it in my own... It is really important to thank every gifts and graces everyday and appreciate what we have now.


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