By Josh Mabus, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, April 8, 2016. It’s a lot easier to fail than to be labeled a quitter, but how often is someone else’s definition of failure simply our best excuse to quit?
Leaving something behind is easier when we can say we gave it our best but came up short.
In 1985, Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple, the company he started, because the board of directors perceived his Macintosh computers to be a failure. Jobs wanted to build computers unlike anyone else, and the board was fearful of producing expensive computers that challenged the mainstream.