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Edwin Schlossberg said - "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think". My aim here is to do exactly that: create a corner in the online world that forces one to re-think and question ideas that are treated as a given.

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Useful lessons from Meg Whitman's talk

  • Enable, don't direct (simply put don't micromanage)
  • Make size an advantage (its always easier to change direction in a startup)
  • Disruptive ideas
  • Price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake
  • Pick out companies where u r passionate about the product
  • Take responsibility for your own career development
  • Take risky choices where u don't know anything and can learn
  • Realize u cannot be a perfect wife, mom, hostess and exec
    • Know early on if u need intellectual stimulation
    • Make trade offs - give up things unnecessary...her joke: she was elected as the worst dressed billionaire by some magazine..She couldn't care less for fashion
  • Make mistakes; trial and error, be strategically agile
  • In business, if u can absorb data, internalize various opinions and make decisions with 60% accuracy u r doing great!!