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The difference between being right and getting the right answer

Entrepreneurs can be a hard headed lot. It takes courage, determination, a lot of luck, and sometimes just old fashioned, bull-headed persistence to create a company but as a result entrepreneurs don't always listen well.But even if you know you resemble this description, ask yourself - is it more important for you to get to the right answer, or to be right? You want to be right because your team wants to follow someone who knows what to do. You want to be right because it's more efficient, and it [...]

By |2017-12-10T12:12:13-08:00October 29, 2016|Leadership|0 Comments
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5 Keys to Authentic Leadership

From a talk I gave at VMware in Palo Alto earlier this month Leadership comes in many styles - charismatic, intellectual, bullying - but in all cases leadership is hard to sustain over time unless it is authentic. Real. Genuine. These 5 keys are from a woman's perspective, but most apply just as much to men. 1. Embrace making decisions.  Not only embrace them, but have confidence in how you make decisions. I'm a fast, intuitive decision maker. I make a decision on minimal visible information and then use data [...]

By |2017-12-06T09:48:37-08:00July 23, 2014|Leadership|0 Comments
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It takes guts to make imperfect decisions

Every day we make decisions that impact our future. Every day we decide on pricing, product, sales strategy, hiring and because it's an imperfect world we never have enough information. When you're building a company you have to get very comfortable with making decisions on partial information. There is never enough time to assemble all the facts, and if you wait for them you'll fail anyway because the opportunity will pass you by. Think about product design. When you're creating a new market and growing fast you can't take the [...]

By |2017-12-03T02:44:27-08:00August 9, 2013|Leadership|0 Comments
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