Leadership

  • Procrastination workshops postponed

    Four steps to stop entrepreneurial procrastination

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    I saw Warren Muller, my co-founder at Micrel, pulling an oil tray from under his automobile and pouring the...

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  • A Company Divided Against Itself …

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    To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, a company divided against itself cannot stand. The foreshadowed collapse comes from office politics, a...

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  • Smarter CEOs: How to manage your presence

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    Seth Godin recently identified some reasons why CEOs can be stupid, and he almost found the central theme (almost,...

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  • Building Boomerang Employees

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    Boomerang employees are proof that your corporate culture is healthy. “I knew that Micrel was the best place that...

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  • How Leaders Do Better Than Their Best

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    Famed Admiral Rickover once stunned Ensign Jimmy Carter (yes, a future U.S. President) who had admitted to maybe not...

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  • Bottle Rockets and Hoists

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    Here in Silicon Valley, most startups are like bottle rockets: they fly fast, look great, explode and vanish in...

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  • Executive Ethics and the Rudderless Ship

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    Entrepreneurs often provide the ethics of their entire organization. Those that don’t oversee chaos. Ethics are systems of moral...

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