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1. 🔊 What industry do you work in and what is your role?
2. 🔊 What are your responsibilities in your role/position?
3. 🔊 Can you describe to me the function of your workplace/company?
4. 🔊 How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
5. 🔊 What is the Minimum requirements for employment i.e Education or Experience?
6. 🔊 How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
7. 🔊 What is the process for changing job roles i.e Interview? Test?

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🔊 General discussion about your workweek:

1. 🔊 Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
2. 🔊 Anything of interest happening?

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Listening

1. 🔊 How did the host describe Compaq in 1998?
2. 🔊 How does Tim Cook describe himself at heart?
3. 🔊 What did people say about Tim Cooks decisions?

Key Words and Phrases

🔊 You’ve talked about your decision to go to Apple back in 1998 and how people forget that at that point in time Apple was really close to extinction, almost, and was certainly in the eyes of some

yet you had just actually started a new job at Compaq which was a healthy, vibrant company at the time and so you then go to Apple shortly after having accepted this job

you said you spent about five minutes talking to Steve Jobs and your intuition told you despite all the reasons not to do this that this is where I should be

so my question is given the importance that you lend to this intuition. Is intuition something you’re born with or is it something that you’ve developed over your career so that you’ve kind of refined your instincts.

I think it’s more the latter, I don’t think that you’re born with a gut I think you’re gut matures and gets better and better over time and what the struggle that most people have I think is learning to listen to it and figuring out how to access it in some way

for it for me though what I found was that even though I’m an engineer and an analytical person at heart, the most important decisions I’ve made had nothing to do with any of that. They were always based on intuition and the Apple one is a prime example of that

you know I remember actually forming my list of pluses and minuses and I could not get the chart to work out the way I wanted it to because I wanted something to say you know I should go to Apple but it would not. There was nothing financially that would do that, I talked to people I trusted that knew me and they said this is not what you should do

it wasn’t so easy and people said you know you’re just crazy you’re working for the top PC company in the world how could you even think of doing this you’ve lost your mind and yet that voice said go west young man go west and sometimes you just have to go for it.

Discussion

1. 🔊 Why did you chose the career you are in? What influenced you?

2. 🔊 How did you make this choice? – Has intuition ever played a role in your decision making?

3. 🔊 What were the pros and cons that you could see before making your choice (at that time)?