In his book “Real Leaders Don’t Follow,” Silicon Valley management consultant and former senior executive Steve Tobak busts many of today’s most popular leadership and entrepreneurial myths. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen sees himself as a visionary, an idea man; that much is clear from his book, Idea Man: A Memoir[…] Read On
This column originally ran August 4, 2016 on FOXBusiness.com; thought it would be interesting to see how my prognostication was turning out. Back in 2011, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confessed that he “never really wanted to run companies,” but concluded that he “was better than the CEOs” he hired.[…] Read On
Walking across the border from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China, in 1991, I found a city transitioning from market town to bustling metropolis. Most of the people were poor, and the technology companies I visited consisted of engineers in warehouses with old metal desks and outdated computers. But you could[…] Read On
Returning home from an international business trip I struck up a conversation with the guy seated next to me. Turns out we were both tech industry execs with a lot in common, except he was older, more experienced and apparently wiser. Toward the end of the flight we somehow got[…] Read On
How can you tell if a company has a good thing going? Easy. If it offers unique products and services that customers value that’s a good sign. And when it loses that edge, that’s a bad sign that oftentimes leads to a “going out of business” sign. The new term[…] Read On
Having now spent an entire week with my left hand in a cocoon I can tell you exactly why we evolved with opposing hands. No matter how smart you are, when you’ve only got one hand, it is virtually impossible to do all sorts of basic things that even a[…] Read On
CNBC had Jaron Lanier on this morning. Lanier is a virtual reality pioneer and one of the smartest guys in Silicon Valley. He writes incredibly insightful books like You Are Not a Gadget and Who Owns the Future? where he cautions about the impact of technology on our culture and[…] Read On