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NCO R E<br />

ENCORE<br />

E<br />

One More Thing<br />

Stay hungry, stay foolish.<br />

—STEVE JOBS<br />

<strong>Steve</strong> <strong>Jobs</strong> keeps his audience guessing. Frequently, but<br />

not always, he will leave the audience with “just one<br />

more thing” before he ends a presentation. For example,<br />

<strong>Jobs</strong> announced that he would return as Apple’s fulltime<br />

CEO (dropping the “interim” from his title) as the “one<br />

more thing” at the conclusion of his Macworld presentation<br />

on January 5, 2000. It is the element of surprise that audiences<br />

have come to love and expect. Since his audience expects “one<br />

more thing,” <strong>Jobs</strong> does not always deliver. A surprise would fail<br />

to surprise if everyone knows it’s coming!<br />

So, in true <strong>Steve</strong> <strong>Jobs</strong> fashion, I would like to add just “one<br />

more thing” to this discussion. On June 12, 2005, shortly after<br />

a bout with a rare, curable form of pancreatic cancer, <strong>Jobs</strong> gave<br />

the commencement address at Stanford University. It became<br />

an Internet sensation. It is one of the most popular commencement<br />

addresses on YouTube, far more popular than remarks of<br />

other famous commencement speakers such as Oprah; The Last<br />

Lecture author, Randy Pausch; or Harry Potter’s J. K. Rowling.<br />

<strong>Jobs</strong> crafted the speech using many of the same techniques<br />

that make his presentations so electrifying. About the only thing<br />

absent that day were slides. The rest is classic <strong>Steve</strong> <strong>Jobs</strong>. I have<br />

excerpted sections to illustrate how he applied his extraordinary<br />

messaging and presentation skills to the now famous speech. I<br />

also urge you to watch the full speech on the Stanford website. 1<br />

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