Leadership
Business Etiquette – Even on Zoom!
This is not a debate about whether to Zoom or not-to Zoom. Clearly the virtual, remote, and emerging hybrid business environments are surviving via Zoom, Teams, etc. Whether we are having a meeting via Zoom or in person, there are still some polite manners that should be required. For example, if ½ the people…
Read MoreHow is the Evolving Virtual Work Environment Impacting You?
Have you heard folks say, “Boy things are great! We are super-connected by Zoom”? If this is true, then why is the Great Resignation happening? The truth is: being on Zoom is not the same as being truly engaged. Today like never before, later stage Millennials and Gen Xers are walking out in the millions.…
Read MoreTom Brady and Leadership
What fascinates me most about Tom Brady is not only that he is a great player, or that he has now won a record SEVEN Superbowl events, or that he is one of the best players over 40 years of age, or that he is a stronger quarterback than someone 22 years his junior. There…
Read MoreUnicorn? VC’s – It Is Time To Get Real!
Unicorn? VC’s—- it is time to get real! (See: Silicon Valley Is Trying Out a New Mantra: Make a Profit) It is the VC community (who takes many liberties and are super aloof- unwarranted) who came up with the term ‘unicorn’. Basically, it was to tag a company as a target for pointless massive funding,…
Read MoreLess than 5% of Fortune 500 Companies with Women CEOs
WOW- less than 4.8 percent Fortune 500 companies run by women CEOs! It is 2018 and I am baffled that with Indra Nooyi’s departure soon from Pepsi, that only 4.5% of Fortune 500 companies will be run by women CEO’s. This is unacceptably dismal. We have not come far at all. Only 23 out of…
Read MoreLeBron & Curry – Great Athletes But More Importantly Great Leaders
This week as we all watch Game 1 of the playoffs between the Cavs and GSW, one thing is certain: We will be watching LeBron and Curry make magic. In sports like in business, it is all about HOW you lead, set the pace, lead by example and make the impossible become possible. Yes, these…
Read MoreHow to build a great company by blending bureaucracy and holacracy
September 2015 – In 2001, when I built a start-up in the then-new field of RFID technology, I was often fascinated by the responses in interviews I would get from potential new hires. I would say, “Tell me what you can do,” and they would answer, “What do you want me to do?” I…
Read MoreWomen, silence is not a virtue in the workplace!
I am looking forward to hearing the fantastic VOICES and thoughts of the great minds coming together at the Women in Technology Summit this weekend. As a lead in to my keynote speech on June 1, I wrote this most recent article for Washington Post to get the dialogue started. Throughout my career, I’ve…
Read MoreFive Things That Great VC’s Do = Five Things That Great CEO’s Should Do?
Focus, reducing redundancy, avoiding pointless procedures, better utilization of time are equally applicable to enterprises as they are to start-ups. And, to VC’s as they are to CEO’s. I like the following article recently on TechCrunch- 5 Great Things That VCs Do because it: Cuts through the chase Holds people accountable for the important things…
Read MoreNot Enough Inter-Preneurism? Not Just The CEO’s Fault
Note: A) In this blog the terms enterprises, corporation, large company are use interchangeably. B) Inter-preneurism is referred to as entrepreneurism inside a corporation. Fact: Corporations spend large sums of money on internal R&D – Internal R&D is entrepreneurial/risky. However, it is considered ‘focused’ experimentation. Fact: Enterprises take far bigger risks in external venture investments…
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