Recently, I was reminded of one of the more annoying things that happens to the CEO when things go horribly wrong in your business. After a terrible event such as a lay off or a whiffed quarter or getting stomped by the competition in a critical deal, you run the scenarios of doom through your…
More »As former founder and CEO of Loudcloud, one of the original cloud computing companies, I am considered somewhat of a domain expert in all things “cloud.” Combine that with cloud being one of the hottest areas of new development and the most overloaded term in technology (well, maybe “real time” is more overloaded, not sure)…
More »My single biggest personal improvement as CEO occurred on the day when I stopped being too positive. As a young CEO, I felt the pressure—the pressure of employees depending on me, the pressure of not really knowing what I was doing, the pressure of being responsible for tens of millions of dollars of other people’s…
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