Entries from April 2008

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Conceding to Win

A Sign
Originally uploaded by fensterbme
We all like to win. After all, be it in personal life or business, it’s better to win than to lose. The trick is to recognize the best path to victory. And often, this path is not always as clear as one might think.
In the course of business, you cannot [...]

Friday, April 25th, 2008

What Leaders Can Learn from Marion

Without question, we all strive to do the very best that we can. And, it probably goes without saying, that, to a large extent, we are limited only by our own capabilities. Be it singers, actors, athletes or even students, from a very early age, prodigies often make themselves known to those around [...]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

I’ve Learned Enough…Ha!

One thing that I have learned in life is that you never stop learning. Just when you finish college, there are advanced degrees that beckon. And just when you finish an advanced degree, there’s books, articles speeches, etc. talking about “What They Don’t Teach You at _______.” Well, I fundamentally believe in what John [...]

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Women Speakers Where Are You?

Simone Brummelhuis has an interesting post over at theNextWeb asking why there are so few senior women executives speaking at the various technology conferences that occur across the country each year. Out of the 200 speakers scheduled for the upcoming Web 2.0 conference, only 20 are women — that is 10% (similarly there are two [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Books, Memes and Me

Blogging has been an interesting adventure, bringing me into contact with people and ideas that I may never have otherwise encountered. One such concept is the meme – where one blogger discloses some piece of information and then “tags” another, asking them to do the same. What this does is to reveal a little more [...]

Friday, April 11th, 2008

What Leaders Can Learn from “This” Woman

Allow me to describe the early beginnings of a particular woman:

She was born to unwed, teenage parents in the 1950s
At birth, with her father away in the military, her mom moved away leaving her to live with her grandmother
She was so poor that she [...]

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Women Leaders I Admire

To be clear about this, there are also many male leaders that I admire. As an executive, I look to both men and women in leadership positions for inspiration and learning opportunities. When I think of leaders that I admire, a few well-known names definitely come to mind – Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Meg Whitman, [...]

Friday, April 4th, 2008

What Leaders Can Learn From Angelina

One thing that you may or may not have noticed in this series is that all of the women featured are known by their first name. First there was Britney and then Madonna. And now this is about “Angelina”. They need no other introduction. One of the most effective things that a leader can do [...]

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

It Takes a Village

1 Choose Friend
Originally uploaded by PersonalSpaceInvader
While this expression is often attributed to Hillary Clinton’s book about her vision for children in America, in all actuality it was the title of a children’s book a couple of years prior to Hillary’s book. And some even claim that it originated as an African proverb. Regardless of [...]