There are some things in life that I just have difficulty wrapping my brain around, and one of those is how some people can be so incompetent that they don’t know they’re incompetent. Let’s take the example of people earning doctorates. You’d think that would be a pretty select crowd, right? From 1960 – 69,…
This is part 3 of the series inspired by Cindy Gallop’s brilliant talk on finding talented women or minorities. Not only is your company not hiring female or minority employees, not investing in female or minority-led companies, but YOU ARE LITERALLY ADDING INSULT TO INJURY. The tech workforce is disproportionately white and Asian male, and…
Yesterday, I wrote about Cindy Gallop’s talk on finding diverse talent The Rest of the Story … There were two additional points in her presentation I want to address, but first … You can take a look at our latest prototype under development, Aztech, here and play it in Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer. Play…
First of all, you should all watch this video by the brilliant Cindy Gallop. Everything she says about recruiting women for jobs as Executive Creative Directors applies exactly to women, black , Hispanic or Native American men applying for jobs in technology or for investor funding. Did you watch it? Good! Let me reinforce one of her points….
Twice in the last week, I’ve had people say to me, expecting agreement, Winners never quit. You know that, right? You’ve won a world championships, founded several companies, earned a Ph.D. You never would have done that if you quit. I would like to go on record with my opinion. That idea that winners never…
I try not to be a hypocrite, so after a long talk this week with someone about the importance of admitting mistakes and not continuing to go down the wrong path, I sat down and asked myself, Self? What mistakes have I made? Certainly, if you can’t see any mistakes you have made, you are…
Thirty years ago, I was a wet-behind-the-ears young industrial engineer working at General Dynamics. The production line had been shut down a couple of times in the past few months and I was sent to investigate. I met with the division manager and he told me that they had run out of material X, a…
Ironically, just after posting that I was going to get back to blogging, and my first post back on how grateful I am, I got really sick, didn’t do anything, fell behind at work and so didn’t do any blogging while I caught up. So, here we are again and now I am really grateful…
It’s been a pleasure speaking to groups around North Dakota this past week, in part because I was asked a lot of intelligent questions, which really forced me to think about the answers. One young woman asked how I maintained a positive attitude when times were difficult, when my husband died, when there is a…