Leadership

Opportunity hiding in plain sight

Early in December, Inc announced the 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year:  Kevin Surace.  Innovator of the year would be an equally appropriate title- as well as social entrepreneur.  Kevin is based in Silicon Valley (my home territory).  High tech startup, you’re thinking.  Wrong.  The company is Serious Materials and the products are used in construction- Read the full article…


When rocket science isn’t

When I was on an assistant professor of organization behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the students (about 30% were engineers) complained about the required class on the subject.  They were there to learn how to be captains of industry.  That meant mastering finance, marketing, accounting, and quantitative analysis, not managing people.   Few “got” Read the full article…