How An Introverted Engineer Came Out Of His Shell To Lead Mozilla Former Mozilla CEO John Lilly had to transition from the classic introverted engineer to a people person once he became a manager. So he approached leadership like an engineer: he broke the problem into component parts and figured out how to make them work better. Here's how it transformed him.
Updated Thu Jun 23, 2011
David Kelley on Designing Curious Employees Design thinking is a process of empathizing with the end user. Its principal guru is David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford design school, who takes a similar approach to managing people.
Updated Wed Apr 13, 2011
Reading the Tea Leaves at Bigelow A leader plays many roles--visionary, steward, cheerleader, irritant ... Irritant? For more on that, we turn to Cindi Bigelow, president of Bigelow Tea. She talks about why her company is the exception to the dismal survival rates for family businesses, and why one key tactic is just getting the right people in the room.
Updated Mon Feb 7, 2011
RX for Leaders: Don't Be Too Prescriptive Dan Rosensweig provides a textbook lesson in management--and that's not hyperbole because he actually runs a textbook company. Rosensweig is president and CEO of Chegg, a textbook rental service for students.
Updated Fri Feb 4, 2011
Leveling Up Your Staff: Zynga's Mark Pincus on Entrepreneurial Companies
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Mark Pincus was chased out of some of the best companies in America, before building his own. Pincus is the founder and CEO of Zynga, creators of online games FarmVille and Mafia Wars. Here, Pincus talks about why a company's strength comes from its culture, and why everybody should think like an entrepreneur.
Wed Oct 27, 2010
Chip Conley Took the Maslow Pyramid, Made It an Employee Pyramid and Saved His Company Conley, the founder of Joie de Vivre hotel chain, talks to us about how the near-death of his business changed his outlook on leadership, why managers put too much emphasis on money and not enough on meaning, and why it's more important to climb the employee pyramid than the corporate ladder.
Wed Aug 25, 2010
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: "I'm Just a Manager" Think the scrutiny of managing the Yahoo fishbowl is unnerving? Maybe you wouldn't be fazed by having all those eyes on you if you'd grown up with pig eyeballs on your dinner plate. The CEO of Yahoo on the challenges of leading, making mistakes, and cursing people out.
Wed Aug 11, 2010
What Breed Is Your CEO? Randy Komisar on Leadership and Management In the life of a company, every dog has its day. So says Randy Komisar, a veteran entrepreneur and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He warns of the classic mistakes of manager-wannabe-leaders, the perils of too many bullets and not enough Zen, and why CEOs are like dogs.
Tue Jul 27, 2010
Organic Valley's CEO George Siemon on the Crooked Art of Leadership Siemon discusses why some of his most valuable innovations come from redesigning relationships, not products. Plus: why bosses sometimes get in the way, why the best leaders exert an almost invisible influence, and why everybody is smarter than anybody.
Tue Jul 6, 2010
FreeRisk: Crowdsourcing Credit Ratings? Can an open source approach reinvent the business of analyzing risk?
Posted Mon Mar 30, 2009
Powering Down: Q&A With Saul Griffith, Makani Power Forget about a new gym membership or diet. The most important New Year’s resolution for 2009 may be slimming down your energy footprint. To that end, Saul Griffith and his colleagues have created WattzOn, a personal calculator that allows users to track energy consumption down to the last apple they eat.
Posted Fri Jan 2, 2009
Crowdsourcing Innovation: Q&A with Dwayne Spradlin of InnoCentive Can open innovation revolutionize doing good? In this Q&A, InnoCentive president and CEO Dwayne Spradlin explains why crowdsourcing is becoming a powerful tool for doing good.
Posted Mon Dec 15, 2008
The Twine that Binds: Q&A with Nova Spivack Half a century ago, management guru Peter Drucker introduced the concept of the knowledge worker. Today his grandson, Nova Spivack, is trying to turn their knowledge into something more than the sum of the parts and boost their collective intelligence. Spivack is founder and CEO of Radar Networks, which recently launched Twine, which bills itself as the first consumer Semantic Web application. Twine has raised more than $20 million from some big names in the venture capital world, including Velocity Interactive Group, Vulcan and DFJ.
Posted Sun Dec 7, 2008
What BlackBerry Addiction says About Obama's Brain Giving up the CrackBerry will make the president-elect more productive, but neuroscientist Sam Wang says that he shouldn’t give it up completely. Here’s why…
Posted Wed Nov 26, 2008
Building Trust with Transparency Fast Interview: The co-author of "Tactical Transparency" on how companies can use authenticity and social media tools to reinforce their brands and create relationships with customers.
Posted Mon Nov 17, 2008
What Obama Can Teach You About Your Business Fast Interview: John Della Volpe, founder and managing Partner of SocialSphere Strategies and director of polling at Harvard University's Institute of Politics, contends that Obama campaign marks a once-in-a-generation innovation in American politics.
Posted Mon Oct 6, 2008
How Innovation Led HTC to the Dream Fast Interview: Here John Wang, HTC chief marketing officer -- AKA Chief Innovation Wizard -- talks about how his company does its magic. Hint: fail cheaply, fail often and be humble.
Posted Mon Sep 29, 2008
Selling Wine the Web 2.0 Way Fast Interview: Gary Vaynerchuk, one of the most successful personal branders on the new media frontier, grew his family business from $4 million in sales to $50 million. Here he talks about the power of social media and Web TV for building business and, you guessed it, your personal brand.
Posted Tue Sep 16, 2008
The Social Capital Investment Strategy Fast Interview: Tech observer and former VC Eric Litman, who recently founded Medialets, an ad delivery platform for native mobile applications, on why a million friends can be more valuable than a million bucks.
Posted Mon Sep 8, 2008
Animoto: The No-Infrastructure Startup Fast Interview: In this Q&A Animoto co-founders Brad Jefferson (CEO) and Jason Hsaio (president) discuss the crazy week their Facebook app caused traffic to spike from 25,000 users to 700,000, how their business couldn't have existed before the advent of cloud computing and how, thanks to outsourcing, their biggest piece of hardware is an espresso machine.
Posted Wed Sep 3, 2008
