Shellye Archambeau is a Silicon Valley leader, who is one of High Tech’s first female African American CEOs. She has been featured frequently in Forbes and New York Times and Business Insider and has been an executive at IBM, CEO of blockbuster.com, and then the turnaround CEO for a Silicon Valley startup, which is now…
Category: Career strategy
1. Helps you get to a whole new level 2. Helps you get there in months and not years 3. The downside of not getting help is that the gap between your expectations and reality increases with each passing day. Which creates frustration. And it leads to even more bad career decisions because of ‘Hail…
“When you’re passionate about getting to the right answer or doing a great job, you’re not there to just get by. You want to approach it with energy and passion. Otherwise, that’s not a life worth living.” – Brain Lillie, Career Nation Show, Episode 18. Brian Lillie is a U.S. Air Force veteran; he has…
Driving innovation in our team is fundamental to the modern digital leader. Here is a method to help you foster innovation and provide forward-looking feedback to the team. The Innovation Economy = an Idea Economy As leaders, we are always dealing with ideas and concepts. We’re living in the idea economy, an innovation economy. And…
You are a leader. There could be multiple scenarios for your job performance. One scenario is where you’re making progress. You are driving change; you are driving transformation. That is the high-performance scenario. There could be another scenario where you’re not participating; you’re not engaging; you’re not contributing. Maybe you’re not interested, or perhaps you’re…
One question I get a lot is, “I’m an industry expert, how do I get into SaaS and Cloud.” The answer is right in front of you. As you know, the software is eating the world. This means industries are just going through massive digital transformation, whether it’s healthcare, financial services, manufacturing. This is not…
It is so important to understand the business model for a company. It helps to understand the drivers and the motivations for all the people that you work with. So, maybe it is for a company that you work for, perhaps you’d like to understand the business model of your customers or your competitors or…
You might’ve heard this comment in the workplace. It goes something like this. This person is so good at his work. If only he could develop some soft skills, he would be great. Now, what most people don’t realize is that soft skills are hard skills because they are the most critical skills necessary to…
We all know that one of the keys to career growth is to continuously learn new skills. It is a career superpower. People that can’t learn can’t survive in the modern workplace. So how can we learn new skills quickly? Is there a hack? Learning through audio or visual Many people learn through audio. For…
You may have felt this a lot of times, like; this person has the perfect job; this person lives in the perfect neighborhood. And it feels like that person is so lucky. But that is not the case. Because luck is all about being prepared, and it’ll be looking for opportunities and taking advantage of…