Steve Jobs saved Apple—and Nike—with the same piece of advice

Quartz:

When Nike named Mark Parker their CEO in 2006, one of the first things Parker did was call Apple CEO Steve Jobs for business advice. It might not have seemed it, but at the time Nike was struggling.

Yes, they had a successful brand. But they were failing to fit their digital strategy into their line of literally hundreds of thousands of products.

During their call, Steve Jobs gave one piece of advice that stuck with Parker.

The advice, while perhaps specific to business, fits in with a lot of our personal lives, too.