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Bad-Tempered Management Style

by Sadhguru Jaggi

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A student asks Sadhguru, “Steve Jobs was said to have a bad temperament, often subjecting his employees to profanity - even firing them in public. He's also considered one of the greatest innovators of our time. Is such behavior justified as long as one delivers results?” Listen to find out Sadhguru’s perspective on bad temper, management style, and Steve Jobs’ leadership.

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So this question comes from Rim.

He says that Steve Jobs was said to have a bad temperament.

He often subjected his employees to profanity,

Fired them in public and pushed them to the extreme limits of performance.

He is also considered one of the greatest innovators of our time.

Is such behavior justified as long as one delivers results?

I don't usually like to make a personal comment about somebody who's already dead,

Okay?

But I'm asking you,

One thing is what we do,

Another thing is what kind of human beings we are.

Is it important what kind of human being you are?

Hello?

Yes.

I did something,

What did I do?

I designed a phone.

If you did not design it,

Koreans would have done it,

Chinese would have done it,

Indians also beginning to do it.

Yes or no?

There is a certain brand building process in the world with which you can build a brand.

And see,

I want you to understand,

You're a doctor at least on the way.

Does this body need oxygen or carbon dioxide?

Oxygen.

Oxygen.

But people pumped carbon dioxide into a bottle and said the real thing,

Coca Cola.

It's the largest brand on the planet,

All right?

More people drink,

At least all these years more people drank Coca Cola,

Then people did yoga or people did anything else.

In the remotest part of this country,

If you went twenty years ago,

If you utter the word yoga they didn't know what it was.

But if you said Coca Cola,

They knew what it was.

So just because it's branded like this and marketed like this,

Does it become that you know your system has become such it likes carbon dioxide and doesn't like oxygen?

Is it so?

No.

So you can brand things in so many ways,

You don't go by these things.

You tell me,

Is it important that you are a pleasant and wonderful human being?

Is it important for you?

Yes.

Otherwise,

You look at it the other way around.

Do you like to be shouted at right now?

I can shout.

You… you like to be shouted at?

No.

Then why do you think somebody else likes it?

Hello?

You don't want to be abused,

Isn't it?

Would you like to be abused?

Then why do you ever think that somebody else likes it?

When you don't like it,

You know it is not nice to you,

Why do you do it to this person?

Why do you do that?

You lost your humanity fundamentally,

Isn't it?

So,

Just because you made lot of money,

I don't think it means anything.

Alexander,

The great idiot,

Conquered half the known world.

What does it mean?

It doesn't mean a damn thing to me.

Only a fool would call such a man as a great man.

He just spent his whole life killing people and you call him Alexander the Great?

No they forgot his third name,

It was idiot.

So please do not go by these standards.

Somebody has this much money,

So he becomes a great man?

I don't think so.

Anyway,

You untimely death with cancer happened,

You didn't pack all your money and go,

There's no container service in the end.

He went to the extent of saying that whatever at that time he had some forty-six billion dollars personal worth.

He said,

Even if I have to use this forty-six billion dollars,

Every dollar of it,

I would like to destroy Google because that is it.

They're not making phones,

But they have become more prominent in the country.

So you want to kill it,

Even if you lose all your money.

There are people like this,

Even if both my eyes go,

I want to take one eye of hers.

This is the crudest level of existence as far as I'm concerned.

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Recent Reviews

Gulmira

April 16, 2022

Wow!!!

Maurice

February 28, 2022

Simply put. Straight to the point. Thank you.

Týr

February 25, 2022

Friggen awesome - we attach greatness to the most crude of human behaviours and to those who have lost their humanity

Aladdin

January 29, 2022

Thank you for this

Linda

January 28, 2022

Always sending the message beautiful

Ahimsa

January 18, 2022

Important to be reminded of what we do not want to be as we traverse life’s path, focusing on the truth that life is love, all else is imagined confusion, including ill tempered behaviorS! www.gratefulness.org, ahimsa

Sabine

December 5, 2021

🙏🏼❤️💫

🌻Beda🌻

December 21, 2019

Perfectly stated! Thank you! 🌺🙏🌺

Ana

December 14, 2019

Absolutely, profoundly excellent!! Wisdom to be taught in every school and home! Thank you for this!

Rebecca

December 14, 2019

Straight to the point in a respectful yet clearly stated position. Wonderful response to a potentially loaded question. Thank you for shining a light on the more compassionate path in answering this query. I see the light in you. 🤲🏻❤️🤲🏻

Jesse

December 14, 2019

Well said! I appreciate the clarity and way of speaking!

pipia

December 13, 2019

Wonderful.Namaste.

Moraima

December 13, 2019

Great reminder of keep our Humanity all the time

Joyce

December 13, 2019

Excellent point made! Always good to be reminded what's important in this life.🙏💕🙏

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