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Values Based Organizations
By Robert Sher As I sat listening the speaker tell us CEOs that we should only have executives and employees that match our value set and desired corporate culture, I started thinking of all the many times I had read and heard pretty much the same message. HOW MANY TIMES…
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Spring 2008
Inside the Spring 2008 Issue: Thinking Downturn – or Up? Alliance CEOs talk about the growing uncertainty with the economy and the strategies they are undertaking to offset the impact of the general economic trends in their own companies. We interviewed about a half dozen of our members and found…
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Jim Pouliot
Jim Pouliot shared his experiences with how his insistence on value-based behaviors in his organizations led to better performance and higher profitability.
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Creating and Owning a Category
By Robert Sher It was a simple question. How did Rich Bravman, CEO of Intelleflex, help build his last company, Symbol Technologies, from a four person team to a 1.7 billion dollar firm? And what techniques from that ascent was he using in his new startup? The answer rolled out…
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Don Massaro
Fellow Alliance member, Don Massaro, CEO of Sendmail, discussed some of the lessons learned while leading a number of Silicon Valley technology companies including: Shugart Associates (which was acquired by Xerox), Metaphor Computer, Silicon Gaming, MainStreet Networks, Array Networks and Reconnex.
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Mike Rose
Mike's vision for Engine Room is the product of 25 years learning first-hand what kind of support CEOs of technology and life science companies need to grow and prosper. His career working in finance and accounting for public and private companies is rich and varied. It includes working on assignment…
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Friedhelm Blobel
Friedhelm Blobel, Ph.D., founded Biobloc in 2017 after selling SciClone. He had served as SciClone’s President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director since June 2006. From July 2000 to 2006, Dr. Blobel was President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Gryphon Therapeutics, Inc., a South San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company.…
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Paul Clayton
Fellow Alliance member, Paul Clayton, CEO of Jamba Juice, discussed his experiences in growing two major retail food brands: Burger King and now, Jamba Juice.
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Eamonn Kelly
Eamonn Kelly, CEO of Global Business Network, the renowned California-based, future-oriented network and consulting firm, and a partner of the Monitor Group joined us for this Regional Alliance meeting. Eamonn is the author of “Powerful Times” and we shared an in-depth discussion with Eamonn on his views of the future.
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Winter 2008
Inside the Winter 2008 Issue: Indispensable Tech Tool for CEOs Members talk about the devices that keep their lives organized - especially when it counts. For many CEOs, tech tools like the Blackberry have become the lubricants that keep their business lives on track. We interviewed about a half dozen…
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Geoffrey Moore
Geoffrey Moore, the best-selling author of “Crossing the Chasm” and a Managing Director at TCG Advisors discussed his latest marketing strategies for “Competing in Tough Times: Innovations Strategies that are Recession Proof.” AC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,‘http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0’,‘width’,‘320’,‘height’,‘255’,‘src’,’/video/control/QuickTime?playerOpts=targetClip*/video/moorekeynote/moorekeynote.flv*s||autoLoad*true*b’,‘quality’,‘high’,‘pluginspage’,‘http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash’,‘movie’,’/video/control/QuickTime?playerOpts=targetClip*/video/moorekeynote/moorekeynote.flv*s||autoLoad*true*b’ );
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Leaping Ahead: Courage or Discipline?
By Robert Sher Can you imagine if you had been an early user of search engine optimization (SEO), where you always came up on top because most of your major competition didn't know about SEO? Mark Denham did. Can you imagine if you'd used bulk e-mail early on, when people…
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Indispensible Tech Tools for CEOs
By Warren Lutz For Elizabeth Hutt (Group 272) , the good old days of her business career were pretty good — even if she needed to carry a roll of dimes. “When I started my sales career, I had no laptop, no mobile phone. I even used payphones,” said Hutt,…
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Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell, Chairman of Intuit, discussed his philosophies on leadership and management gained from a fascinating career as both a senior executive at several companies including GO Corporation, Claris Corporation and Eastman Kodak Company and as head football coach at Columbia University. Bill was recently cited by FORTUNE magazine as…
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Stan Schneider
Stan Schneider is CEO at Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the Industrial Internet of Things communications platform company. In 2014, Stan was elected to the Industrial Internet Consortium Steering Committee. With over 70 companies, the goal of the IIC is to develop, test, and promote the standards that are crucial to the…
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Keith Sawyer
Keith Sawyer, author of Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration discussed his finding that creativity is not an individual gift, but is always collaborative. Keith has spent 15 years studying the hidden collaborations that drive exceptional creativity. We learned how we can all maximize the creativity and power of…
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Business Temptation
By Robert Sher To be an entrepreneur is to endure temptation. I mean the temptation to start a business or division when the impulse hits you. I call it entrepreneur-itis. It’s a disease that leads to the dissipation of profits from the established business to poorly disciplined startup efforts. The…
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A Branding Lesson: The Four Cornerstones
By Robert Sher An intimate business relationship with our key customers is what many CEOs yearn for. We know that we'll be the first to know of client's needs, so we'll be the first to present solutions. Bedrock Brand Consultants grew out of such a client, and David Takeuchi, CEO,…
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Get In Their Faces!
By Robert Sher As I sat with Bob Klotz, CEO of Bayside Solutions, he had the confidence of a man with a fast growing staffing firm powered by hundreds of relationships with clients. But all relationships have a beginning—a starting point where the parties encounter each other for the first…
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Don’t Let Success Destroy your Culture
By Robert Sher Boldly on the wall is their slogan – People Against Blah. As a creative agency, it's meant to signify their commitment to the fresh and the new for their clients. But CEO Elaine Tajima discovered, in an uncomfortable way, that blah can even creep into an incredibly…
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Bill Coleman
Bill Coleman, the CEO of Cassatt and Founder of BEA Systems - the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in revenues, joined us for this Regional Alliance Meeting. Bill discussed his views on the future of technology and how the technology industries will evolve. It was an incredibly…
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Paul Witkay and Tom Kelley of IDEO
Alliance Founder & CEO, Paul Witkay discussed Innovation with Tom Kelley, General Manager of IDEO and author of “The Art of Innovation” with Gary Allen on KNBR 680AM. Paul and Tom discussed how innovation is essential for successful businesses today. Click here to Listen
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Jans Aasman
Jans Aasman is a Ph.D. psychologist and expert in the Cognitive Science - as well as CEO of Franz.com, an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and provider of Semantic Graph Databases and Analytics. As both a scientist and CEO, Jans continues to break ground in the areas of Artificial Intelligence…
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Peter Magowan
Peter Magowan, General Partner of the San Francisco Giants, discussed his leadership lessons learned from being the CEO for organizations as different as Safeway and the Giants, as well as being on the board of both Chrysler and Caterpillar. Alliance members had a great time discussing a wide variety of…
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Lynn Upshaw
Lynn Upshaw, principal of Upshaw Marketing, an accomplished author and award-winning educator at the Haas School of Business joined us for this regional Alliance Meeting. Lynn has deep experience in a wide range of marketing and brand building services and discussed how “Great Leaders are Great Marketers.”
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Board Benefits
By Robert Sher Most entrepreneurs had a boss in their earlier life. One of the big benefits of owning your own company is supposed to be freedom and independence from a boss. And it is, if you can avoid seeing the customers, the bank and the marketplace as your boss.…
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Eric Benhamou
Eric Benhamou, Chairman of Palm, 3Com and Cypress Semiconductor led an interactive discussion about his 30 plus years of experience in building some very high profile, successful technology companies.
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Alliance Group on FRONT PAGE of the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal featured how four CEOs have helped each other in big ways through their 10-year history with the Alliance. Alan Huttmann of HA Logistics, Bob Brown of Teladata, Doug Hill of True-Tech and Bruce Nagle of RW3 Technologies were all profiled.
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Selling through Education
By Robert Sher When our agrarian ancestors realized that the path forward was through specialization and trade, the industrial revolution was born. Blacksmiths, woodworkers and many more craftsmen would trade their honed skills for food, rather than grow it themselves. Flash forward to today, and the trend toward specialization continues.…
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Tom Miller
Tom Miller, CEO of The Trium Group, led a discussion on how his firm helps create brilliant organizations. He defines “brilliant organizations” as those that create value for multiple stakeholders, adapt well to change, bring out the best in others, deliver results and are organizations where we’d like our kids…
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