Five of Steve Jobs’ biggest mistakes

We love to lionize the brilliant and successful after the fact, but what about all those mistakes and failures our captains of industry have made along the way? Steve Jobs, who changed the world with his career, certainly was not immune to failure, which ultimately gave him the learning experiences from which he crafted his mind-boggling success. But where did Jobs go wrong? Hiring John Sculley as CEO, for starters, seeing that it was Sculley who engineered Jobs' ouster from Apple itself. Pixar as a hardware company? NeXt? Lisa? The list goes on. But the important thing is not that Jobs failed. It is that he used these failures to learn and to build success. And most importantly, to remind himself that even amid failure, risks are still worth taking. Otherwise, there would never have been an iPhone.