The CEO is the Most Confident Man in the Company
I heard somewhere that one definition the Navy has of a ship’s captain is that he is, “the most confident man on the ship.” A CEO could be similarly defined. Why confidence as the defining quality for these leadership roles? It’s because these roles will ultimately have to deal with leadership in the absence of […]
Monday’s Musings: Reflections On Obama And The False Hope For A Tech Halo
President Obama’s Visit Reflects The Importance Of Silicon Valley To The US Economy By now everyone’s seen and re-seen the photo showing the tech-centric dinner at John Doerr’s house in Woodside, CA on February 17th, 2011 (see Figure 1). With a guest list that included most of the “Captains of the Tech Industry” it would […]
Netflix’s Movie Cloud is Moving into the Amazon Cloud
Netflix has always been an extremely progressive company. I know the founders, Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings well, and many of the employees too. There is an amazing amount of brainpower behind the scenes there and it shows with their great products and great story. I read with interest Larry Dignan’s piece about their usage […]
