Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.

Perhaps after watching the video above, we can then understand why so many of us “must have” an iPhone – see the iPhone vs HTC video below:

Its been a while since I’ve posted, I’ve been away for a few weeks holiday, during which I upgraded from my Nokia N95 to my new iPhone 16GB 3GS…and what a difference its made to my life!

Those who know me know that upgrading my phone is never cheap, as I have to buy two (one for me and one for my wife Ceri who will moan like crazy if I just upgraded the one!) – this was well worth paying for.

O2 shop was busy, so we simply strolled into the Carphone Warehouse shop in Swindon town centre, they were very helpful and half and hour later, some very useful advice from the nice lady in the shop and also configuring her work email account on her iPhone for her, we walked away with iPhones!

As many know, you then spend best part of 4 hours configuring them, there were a few tears with joining them onto my home Wireless LAN (I run 4 secure WLANs – quite geeky really, giving the iPhones their own unique wireless zone). Never the less, this was completed and then comes the great part – the Apps store!

I’ve never seen Ceri spend so much time with a phone, I think she managed to download most of the free apps very quickly, and just like me, she couldn’t resist the temptation to start “twittering” and now uses the iPhone all the time for email, txt, twitter, shopping lists, you name it, its on her iPhone!

So bye-bye PC – never use that anymore, hello iPhone – only slight “niggle” I have with it is I have to go through the menu system to turn on and off the Bluetooth for my car kit – why can’t Apple release a nice simple button / app to turn this on and off without me having to “Jailbreak” my iPhone…I don’t think I’m prepared to do this just yet…

For now its back to Twitter, these things are so addictive…. http://www.twitter.com/darrencrannis

PS – has great tools for IT users too…not got round to using these yet!

The iPhone 3.0 Software Update includes some great new features, as well as all the features from previous updates. iPhone 3.0 also lets you run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games and much more, the key updates (and improvements are):

Cut, Copy & Paste – finally copy and send text messages, as well as text and images from the web!
Landscape Keyboard
MMS – Send MMS messages, including video.
Voice Memos
Improved Calendar

and interestingly this a feature called “Internet Tethering” – is the a “modem”….maybe…

…and much, much more, plus the usual improvements and refinements to the current applications…

The upgrade is FREE, visit the Apple iPhone UK software update website for more details.