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#190: Apple of My Eye
I'm wondering how Steve Jobs must've felt when the board of directors kicked him out of Apple years back. Apple was his baby. He gave birth to it. Then came spreadsheet-toting investors who, at some point, said, "Heck this dude doesn't know what he's doing. Let's sack him."
I'm feeling a little Steve-Job-ish now.
What do you do when someone takes your idea and runs away with it?
posted by VivaGlam! at 3:19 PM
4 Comments:
that's tough. i had my share of those experiences.
when i was a mgt trainee, i was afraid to speak my mind out. so what i do is i just whine with my friends. hehehe.
i'm usually non-confrontational so maybe I just come up with a better idea.
If he's being totally arrogant about coming up with that "Idea" I'll ask him a lot of questions about my original idea infront of other people and see if he can answer them...if not, I will propose my own solution to the question i laid beforehand.
Or kung magaling talaga siyang mambola...aabangan ko na lang siya sa backfield at uumbagan...hmpf! etong sa'yo!!!
7:52 AM
well, steve jobs returned to Apple after a few years and gave it its renaissance through iMac & iPod.
as for your case, take that original idea, find the flaws, expose it, and come up with something better... the better to flop this guy down on his face :P
5:05 PM
i will hunt him or her down, and say in my golum-est tone "I WILL HUUNTSS YOUUUU AND KEEEELLSSS YOU!!!!!" then rip his idea-stealing brain out, spinal cord included and fry it in lemon butter served over pita bread. *evil manic psychotic laugh*
11:40 AM
Backfield Girl, baka dapat Backstreet Girl ka. May umbag ka pang strategy eh. Iba ka. :) Well, what happened was that I presented a third option. Which won. Thing is, I have this thing about not being able to look at her now. It's like having this bad taste left in your mouth which you can't get rid of. I try to go out of my way to smile at her and stuff but it's like there's this thing hanging over the two of us... Like some unfinished business or something. Ack!
Number Cruncher, true. I particularly picked the Steve Jobs example because of his spectacular comeback. If I just needed to illustrate someone getting kicked out by the board with the story ending there, I would've picked Doug Ivester. :)
Pink Princess, salbahe ka! Papaluin ka niyan ni Lee. :)
2:40 PM
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