我坐在咖啡店的角落想事情。一位年約40歲的中年人輕聲打斷我,問我他能否坐下來,他想請教我有關創業的事。
我沒有直接回答他,倒是先問了他一個問題:“你總共工作多久了?”他說快15年了。我再問他:“你能否舉出這15年間,有多少次的表現是超出公司給的目標?”他思考良久,無法舉出具體的例子,這時我建議他對于創業的事最好三思而行。“為什么?”他有些失望地問我。我回答說:“如果你沒有成功的過去,有什么依據相信自己可以創造成功的未來?因為當你還是員工,所有風險都由老板幫你負擔時,你便無法有特別成就;換成自己創業當老板,所有風險都要自己承擔時,困難度提高,成功的機會更遙不可及!”
看他有些納悶,我問他,如果他現在被公司開除,他有能力復制過去的成功經驗東山再起嗎?他再一次搖頭。我對他說,如果他是蘋果電腦的創辦人喬布斯就可以了。
喬布斯第一次的信心,產生于他20歲時創立蘋果電腦公司。他拼命工作,讓蘋果電腦在10年內從一間車庫里的小工廠,擴展成一家員工超過4000人,市價20億美金的公司,因為他推出了一個很棒的產品 主站蜘蛛池模板: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |