Endings and Beginnings
Almost ten years ago I did a slight career course change and moved from senior roles inside software companies to software market analyst. In that nearly ten years with analyst firm IDC, leading what has grown into a broad team of highly respected software market analysts, I have grown professionally and personally. For the first […]
Career Advice: Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck
“If you can’t explain it to a six year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein There are two types of people in business: Simplifiers: who make complex things simple Complexifiers: who make simple things complex Quick joke Question: What does a complexifier call a simplifier? Answer: “Boss.” Somewhere, somehow, some people decided that in […]
WHY AREN’T THERE MORE WOMEN AND MINORITY LEADERS IN HR?
Throughout my lengthy career as a consultant, analyst, thought leader, and independent voice in the HR technology industry, I have been asked quite often why I think there aren’t more women and minority HR professionals in key HR leadership roles. The simple answer is that there aren’t many women and minorities in key HR leadership […]
The Next Chapter: Pushing the Digital Envelope at SAP
As you may know, after seven years of running Social Media Group, which was one of the first (if not the first) pure-play social media agencies in the world, this spring I made the decision to downsize. It was time to do something new. Saying goodbye to our amazing team and clients was not easy […]
Life and Opportunities
It’s never easy making change in our own lives, even when we’ve been told that we’ve been a change agent for so many others. This is also not the first time I’ve written a blog post about major change in my life. In the past almost 10 years I’ve been in Germany many things have […]
Finally, Graduating Lawyers are Considering a Profession That Benefits Society: Procurement
I must say I got a chuckle from a recent article counseling law school grads to consider “alternative career paths” including procurement. After all, one good mind going into our field and one less shark slowly bleeding the economy to death must be a positive thing now, mustn’t it? The story suggests that given the […]
My Career Pivots
Chris Dixon has written a great post about pivoting: Ask yourself: if you started over today, would you build the same product? If not, consider significant changes to what you are building. The popular word for this today is “pivoting”…
Path to Recognition
The other week Jon Reed from JonERP asked me to join him for his next episode of the ERP Lounge which I was both honored and flattered to do so. The episode which is now online and you can find here he also posted a piece up on the SAP Community Network that you might […]
