Leading With Music

managing Hope…

Nov 10, 2020 | Hope, manage, Santana

It was always dicey traveling out of the Ithaca area in the winter, which is basically not July...

Nov 9, 2020 | engage, Hope, Santana

Our little card was starting to get some notice across IBM, and for our little team, I was...

Nov 8, 2020 | Cake, Fun, renew

The center of the IBM universe was a very small town in "upstate" New York, which I had learned...

Nov 7, 2020 | Cake, execute, Fun

With many not flying, it is fun to reminisce a bit about a different era of flying, when it was a...

Nov 6, 2020 | Cake, Fun, wonder

I have traveled to the Silicon Valley area that is now so revered since early in the '80s at the...

Nov 5, 2020 | Cake, Fun, observe

This little card from Intel was roiling large portions of IBM, which I had Fun observing. This...

Nov 4, 2020 | Cake, Fun, partner

I know I was gone for 250 of the 300 days available in 18 months for this season… New York’s taxes...

Nov 3, 2020 | Cake, Fun, manage

These stories are going to exceed your realism meter... as in "there is no way THAT is true". ...

Nov 2, 2020 | Cake, engage, Fun

We were into our second week of touring Europe with the kids. I realized that with Amie 12, the...

I have written about being fired before, and I have used that story with a number of others who...

I was fortunate that there was another tech company literally across the street that needed a VP...

After a couple of years, the work at Merant was into a "good" rhythm. I was enjoying meeting with...

The company I joined was headquartered in Maryland, but I led teams from an acquisition located in...

At a Women In Technology meeting a few years ago, a young woman said "How did you construct such a...