Cadence Design Systems Archives

How to Unite your Team: Advice from Napoleon

Silicon Valley is littered with small (and large) companies that want to create a revolution. It might be a revolution in commerce - like Square trying to "Architect a revolution, thoughtfully", or being the enablers of a revolution like social media was for the Arab Spring, or creating a revolution in music delivery the way Apple did with the iPod. But what is it that unites a team of people to try to create a revolution in the world of technology? Napoleon believed that "There are only two forces that [...]

By Penny Herscher|2017-12-06T16:51:12-08:00December 31, 2012|Leadership|0 Comments

Autonomy, Revenue Recognition and the Duping of HP

HP's acquisition of Autonomy, and subsequent write down of $8.8B amid allegations of fraud by the Autonomy management team, is going to show up as a business school study one of these days, and so it should. The practice of revenue recognition in software, and how you can be misled by it, is simply not well understood by enough senior management and board members. And as companies shift their software products from license to subscription revenue it becomes imperative that board members do understand it or they can be easily [...]

By Penny Herscher|2017-12-06T17:56:37-08:00November 21, 2012|Boards|0 Comments

Another marketing organization rip up and retry

How to organize marketing of B2B high tech products is always challenging. The best products rarely come from marketing people and the deeper the technology the more the R&D team is in the inventive role and driving marketing.As a result, where to have marketing report is an ongoing political battle in many companies - and Cadence Design Systems marketing revolving door is a fresh example of this. According to the online gadfly DeepChip.com, editor John Cooley reports "Cadence CMO Bruggeman rumored ousted in unexpected palace coup", confirmed also by Gabe [...]

By Penny Herscher|2017-12-06T17:04:59-08:00August 1, 2011|Career Advice|1 Comment

Ben Horowitz: CEO psychology – or Don’t Quit!

Terrific article in TechCrunch this week by Ben Horowitz - What's the Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing your own psychology.Managing inside my own head is by far the most difficult thing I do as a CEO and I appreciate Ben being so out and candid about what's going on inside. As he says "Over the years, I’ve spoken to hundreds of CEOs all with the same experience. Nonetheless, very few people talk about it, and I have never read anything on the topic. It’s like the fight club of management: [...]

By Penny Herscher|2017-12-06T17:07:54-08:00April 2, 2011|Leadership|0 Comments