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 Today's advice comes from former General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, Jr.'s speech, covered in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "You can't all be the next Steve Jobs. But you all can bring his entrepreneurial approach to your careers." Wagoner saw his share of challenges during his time at General Motors. The White House asked him to resign and he was widely considered one of the worst business leaders of 2008.
Now, with the benefit of hindsight, he says it all comes down to "thinking about how to do things faster, better, more efficiently and by finding ways to make your ideas take root," he says. If Wagoner had followed that advice — Jobs' signature formula — he would have invested his company's efforts differently. Be open to new ideas and be flexible when they hit, he says, so as not to lose track of the entrepreneurial mindset, which thrives on pushing boundaries, testing new ideas, and challenging the status quo instead of adapting to it. "Opportunities will arise that you can't even imagine today," he says.
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