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on July 12, 2011

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Run of a small business

Ah! talking of invention, and being part of the same bandwagon, I quite agree with Mike here: America Runs On Small Business Maybe because failure many times leads to innovation. According to Wall street Journal guru, Clayton Christensen, the road to innovation is paved with failure. 93% of all innovation starts off in the wrong direction. Almost everyone knows that the failure rate of small business is legendary. However, after failure, the most successful entrepreneurs keep picking themselves up and starting over until they get it right . Many big businesses keep throwing resources at failing initiatives instead of giving up and going in a different direction. Most small businesses, classically strapped for cash tend to respond quickly to failure by changing directions. This fail-start over-fail-start over process is akin to how small children learn to walk. It is supported by what Malcolm Gladwell asserts in his best-selling book, “Outliers”. Gladwell notes that while there is a...

VMware-Microsoft battle taking shape

That Microsoft has its sights set on the virtualization market dominated today by VMware is nothing new. However, the announcements Microsoft made on Monday show that the company is putting a tremendous amount of resources toward moving from vision to reality, analyst say. Virtualization is a key component that can take the Dynamic Systems Initiative of a few years ago and make it approach reality. Now, Microsoft is far from alone in this vision. I've heard similar talk over the years from Hewlett-Packard, Veritas (now Symantec), IBM and others. But clearly a fire has been lit under Microsoft, which was comparatively late to the virtualization game , despite its 2003 purchase of Connectix . It should be an interesting battle between Microsoft and VMware ;) Aw Yeah! "VMware has a first mover advantage and a head start," Gillett said. "But Microsoft's model-based approach to it is a more appealing ideal." [hmmm....TODO: Gotta read more about tha...

Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership

When you put all the pieces together, a new picture emerges for why women don’t make it into the C-suite. It’s not the glass ceiling, but the sum of many obstacles along the way. If one has misdiagnosed a problem, then one is unlikely to prescribe an effective cure. This is the situation regarding the scarcity of women in top leadership. Because people with the best of intentions have misread the symptoms, the solutions that managers are investing in are not making enough of a difference. That there is a problem is not in doubt. Despite years of progress by women in the workforce (they now occupy more than 40% of all managerial positions in the United States), within the C-suite they remain as rare as hens’ teeth. Consider the most highly paid executives of Fortune 500 companies—those with titles such as chairman, president, chief executive officer, and chief operating officer. Of this group, only 6% are women . Most notably, only 2% of the CEOs are women, and only 15% of the seats on ...

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