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Financial Disaster Planning
Read morehttp://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-RobertBarker01.mp3Robert Barker, a tech veteran CFO, joins Ray Zinn to discuss disaster planning for CFOs and the tech industry in general. Ray Zinn: Hello everyone. This is Ray Zinn. I am the host for this Tough Things First podcast....
Three Innovation Engines
Read moreHow you innovate depends on what you are innovating. A lot of startups hate hearing that. They have the “magic wand” fallacy concerning innovation, that by bringing smart people together, magical things can happen. This is true in as...
Entrepreneur, Prepare to Pivot
Read moreSARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) came around 2002. It was right at the end of the dot-com implosion. For me at Micrel this was the perfect storm. This precursor to today’s coronavirus epidemic was a make-or-break moment for many...
Polishing Your Business Narrative
Read moreYour business idea is like a diamond hauled from the dirt. You have to clean it off and polish it a hundred times before it glitters enough to attract the attention of others. That is the first step to...
Happy Innovation
Read moreMany leaders don’t see the connection between happiness and corporate innovation. Well, at least until everyone is unhappy and nobody is doing anything worthwhile. People are at their most creative when they are happy. This doesn’t mean you have...
What Stymies Success?
Read moreDo people fear success? No. They fear what success requires or brings. Success is defined as the accomplishment of an aim or purpose. This requires effort and leads the person pursuing success into a new state of being. Since...