Opportunity vs Competition

From Mercury News, interview with Peter Chou 周永明 of HTC by John Boudreau:
“Q How do you feel about competing with Steve Jobs and his iPhone, and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry?
A In terms of business, especially for Chinese, we don’t always think about competition. We think about opportunity. So getting opportunity is good. What is more important is [...]

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Notes from James Lau’s Talk

James Lau of NetApp (NTAP) gave a talk to Hysta. I noted the following points:

Leadership requires

be not afraid to fail
ask “are there any people following you?”; it’s not a matter of titles
have vision and be good communicator, have consistent style in making decisions, know how to manage conflicts, act quickly on bad people, …

Company culture = collective [...]

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Management = Structure + Trust

Bob McDonald’s talk on managing/leading in a crisis at the SDForum Engineering Leadership SIG illustrated what good managers do.  Bob is brought into companies in trouble to get them back on course.  Bob described a number of things he does–I only summarize the following aspect.  
During times of turmoil in a company, something is amissed:  maybe the [...]

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