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

Software is different from Hardware

To someone who spent 20 years in semiconductor and EDA, the recent meltdown of Cadence and removal of the executive team is a sad story. It's the end of a long story of great products, explosive growth, customers as partners, smart acquisitions and market leadership that was slowly eroded as the business model got ahead of the fundamental growth of the business.Gabe Moretti, a veteran journalist who covers the EDA industry wrote a thoughtful opinion piece on what happened in the last 4 years in EETimes Asia, and he raises [...]

By |2017-12-06T17:22:20-08:00October 22, 2008|Career Advice|0 Comments
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