July 22, 2025

Plan for the Future You Won’t Be Part Of

When Steve Jobs realized he wouldn’t outrun cancer, he still made one final leadership decision—naming Tim Cook as Apple’s next CEO. This post is a call to every leader: plan for the future you won’t be part of. Mentor, train, and prepare the next generation—because now never lasts.

He was dying—but wouldn’t accept it.

A hospital bed was brought into his home.

He said, “There’ll be more; I’ll get to the next lily pad; I’ll outrun the cancer.”

But he didn’t.

The world was stunned when Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, passed away on October 5, 2011.

And yet—Jobs knew.

How do we know?

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