Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

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Organization Team How To Career 150

Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

By 2002, when I began advertising with Google, the company had become very profitable, thanks to a novel program called AdWords, in which advertisers bid to display their ads whenever the user searches for keywords. Through the period of March of 2002 to March of 2011, my small executive coaching company, Signature, Inc., Google Inc.

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Advertising Outsourcing Engineering Information Technology 84

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What are the critical levers for change that could be enhanced through technology? But there's more.

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Education Technology Engineering Committee 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They were talking about technology stocks, and they singled out Ciena. At that point we were a single technology company. We’d developed a technology that allowed companies to dramatically expand the capacity of existing fiber optic cable, so you could put more data through a network without digging up miles of fiber.

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Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Yet, companies and executives spend endless amounts of time and money trying to foster collaboration through technology, training, and memos instead of quickly defining the problem, framing the challenges, and inspiring people to come together and tackle it. Collaboration Leadership'

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Guidelines Goal Follow-up Engineering 11