Guy
Kawasaki
Before I start my reflection about the video clip of Guy
Kawasaki entitled “Guy Kawasaki: Make meaning in your company”, let’s start of
knowing who Guy Kawasaki is? Guy Kawasaki was born in Honulolo, Hawaii, where
he attended his studies in Iolani School. He graduated with Bachelor of Arts in
Psychology from Stanford University in 1976. After that he graduated in
Stanford University, he went to a law school but he only lasted a week and he
realize that he hated law school. In 1977, he enrolled in the UCLA Anderson
School of Management, after that he receives his MBA. In 1983, he got a job in
Apple Computers through his Stanford Roommate, Mike Boich. He works there as a
chief evangelist for four years. In 1987, he was hired to lead ACIUS, the US
subsidiary of ACI. He
ran ACIUS for two years and then left to pursue his bliss of writing, speaking,
and consulting. He has written for Macuser, Macworld, and Forbes. And he calls these the “Wonder Years” as in “He wonders how
he came to deserve such a good life.” In 1989, he started another software
company called Fog City Software with three of the best
co-founders in the world: Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens, and Jud Spencer. They
created an email product called Emailer which they sold to Claris and then a
list server product called LetterRip. In 1995, he returned to Apple
as an ordinary Apple employee. At the time, according to the pundits, Apple was
supposed to die. (Apple should have died about ten times in the past twenty
years according to the pundits.) My job on this tour of duty was to maintain
and rejuvenate the Macintosh cult.
A couple years later, he
left Apple to start an angel investor matchmaking service called Garage.com with Craig Johnson of
Venture Law Group and Rich Karlgaard of Forbes. Version 2.0 of Garage.com
was an investment bank for helping entrepreneurs raise money from venture
capitalists. Today, version 3.0 of Garage.com is called Garage Technology
Ventures; it is a venture capital firm and makes direct investments in
early-stage technology companies. Currently, he is a founding partner at Garage
and co-founder of Alltop as well as a husband, father, author, speaker, and
hockey addict.
And currently, he is
continuing to make video clips to help other entrepreneurs to start their own
business and make it grow in the market like what he did for Apple Computers
when it faces difficult situations.
In this video clip he stated of how to make meaning in
your company because it is the true essence of entrepreneurship. He stated that
there are 3 ways to make meaning in your company:
• Increase the quality of life.
• Right a wrong.
• Prevent the end of something wrong.
Let’s start in the first way to make meaning the Increase
of quality of life, like what he said in his video clip they are not motivated
of making money by the Apple but they are motivated of by changing the world to
make people more creative and more productive and that is why they are trying
to increase the quality of their lives and that is a very good motivation in
facing very difficult periods and can think positively of how they can change
people’s lives along our daily activities. As an entrepreneur you should always
think the best for your consumers so that they will not go after the other
producers or the other entrepreneurs that were your competitors. You shouldn’t
think about the money but you should think about how you could improve your
skills to gain experience because money will voluntarily come to you when you
are suitable as you are managing or starting your company.
And the second way to make meaning is to right a wrong,
that if there is a problem you should fix that particularly in business that
you are making profits in your business and you are trying to maintain the good
and stability of your business. You should right the mistakes that you have
committed so that you can maintain and stabilize your company because in this
world you are not the only entrepreneur that making profits but this is a
competition that anyone can join. You should try to think before doing the
decision that you might do because maybe that decision is a crime that can put
you into the downside and that might be the cause of not making profits but
instead you are losing all the efforts and sacrifices to make your company
grow.
And last is to prevent the end of something good, which
means that when you do a thing that can give a good benefit to your company
then keep it up and make your company grow and compete to your competitors. But
if you have done a thing that can give to your company a bad benefit then think
a solution that can end to that thing. In business, decision making is a very
crucial thing because once you decide your company will depend on that decision
and the result of that decision will become the status of your company.
He said that these 3 ways to make meaning are the keys to
start a good and productive company, school, churches or other kinds of
organizations that you want to make. And in this video clip, I have learn that
you can make money easily if you are motivated to you work. And with these 3
ways to make meaning in your company, I could become a good entrepreneur and
can grow my own business in the market. By just following these 3 ways I can
avoid mistakes in terms of deciding strategies that will help my company to
stay competing to the other companies in the market and maintain to make
profits and not to make losing my company. And thanks to Guy Kawasaki, many people
especially the aspiring businessmen have a guide of how to make meaning their
company.
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