Entries Tagged as 'Business Leadership'
August 10th, 2009 · Comments
Author/Entrepreneur/VC Guy Kawasaki turned down an opportunity to be Yahoo's CEO in the early 90's - lets call that a billion dollar mistake. He also worked for Steve Jobs at Apple creating the Mac brand. We'll ride the career roller coaster with Guy and his no "Shitake" approach to business.
I bet you didn't know the worst job in America is Lumberjack (don't tell Paul Bunyan). The Best job - Mathematician. Careercast breaks it all down.
Employment Lawyer Dennis Strazulo says you typically can not sue your employer after they fire you even though they: completely stressed you out, cussed you out, and threw you out. Although, you might have a case if you documented it all.
Imagine a job where you are paid to snorkel reefs, walk beaches and hike mountains on a private island off the coast of Australia. They are billing it as the "best job in the world" and you get paid six figures by the government of Australia to do it. Details on how to apply with in.
All that, plus a call to a clown school to see how clowns are made.
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September 28th, 2005 · Comments
Silicon Valley success story Hitz, co-founder of tech consulting company NetApp, takes readers through the three stages of a developing business in this "memoir of a company and of a man," with lessons. Hitz's well-organized chronology outlines the net start-up's 1990s childhood, dot-bust adolescence and triumphant adulthood, centered around three easy-to-grasp themes: risk, growth and success, consecutively. Breezy and entertaining throughout, Hitz's text is also graced with efficient sidebars and a succinct, well-considered time-out capping each chapter. Chapters on his team's struggle to raise funds, find the right CEO for the job and go public are complemented by lessons from ancient Egyptians on data storage and NetApp president Tom Mendoza on public speaking. Though there aren't any lessons here that can't be found in other books, Hitz's personal and professional story encompasses solid business values, common mistakes, a bit of insider lore and some decent outta-left-field jokes (says the engineer to the frog princess: "Who has time for a girlfriend? But a talking frog: that's really cool").
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