Zitat des Tages von Carol Bartz:
My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.
The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.
When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful.
Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.
It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.
My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.
Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.
I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh.
Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.
Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.
I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.
The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.
