Monthly Archives: September 2015
Roundtables at Dreamforce: Part 3 of 3 (One Disruption In Three Ways Out)
Written on September 23, 2015 at 11:47 pm, by Amanda Maestri
This is part 3 of a 3 part series. Read Part 2 Here. This is the final installment in a series of blogs about a set of five executive roundtables I facilitated at last week’s Dreamforce on the topic of Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption. In the first part of each session Continue Reading »
Roundtables at Dreamforce: Part 2 of 3 (The Hierarchy of Models)
Written on September 21, 2015 at 12:15 am, by Amanda Maestri
This is part 2 of a 3 part series. Read Part 1 Here. In the previous post, I reported out on a series of executive roundtables, summarizing the participants’ prioritization of disruptive technologies based on their current impact on their industries and companies. In summary prioritized order, the technologies discussed were: Data Science Cloud Mobile Continue Reading »
Roundtables at Dreamforce: Part 1 of 3
Written on September 18, 2015 at 12:16 am, by Amanda Maestri
This is Part 1 of a 3 part series. Okay, it wasn’t exactly the World Series of Poker, but at Dreamforce this week I hosted five roundtables at Executive Summit with a total of 68 participants, all VIP guests of Salesforce. The topic was “Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption” (not accidentally the Continue Reading »
Headhunting Basics (Part 1) — When to Engage a Professional Search Firm
Written on September 17, 2015 at 7:35 pm, by Amanda Maestri
At some point, a startup will exhaust the founders’ networks for recruiting/hiring purposes, and must turn to professional recruiters to fill key positions. When the position is a senior executive role, a professional recruiter often becomes even more necessary. One of the biggest challenges for a startup seeking to use a search firm is that Continue Reading »
6 Magic Tricks to Noticeably Increase Your Productivity (and Your Happiness)
Written on September 16, 2015 at 8:15 pm, by Amanda Maestri
I was recently asked, “Aside from world peace and the elimination of poverty, if you had one wish, what would it be?” At first, I thought, “I would create more time!” But that would just get filled with all of the frenetic work that continually beckons to be done. Instead, I answered, “I would slow Continue Reading »
Ten States That Matter
Written on September 8, 2015 at 12:22 am, by Amanda Maestri
We’re not talking politics here, people—we’re talking technology adoption. In any major technology adoption life cycle there are two trajectories of development, the first led by a complex systems model, the second by a volume operations model. Each passes through a series of five states, and to each state there is a peculiar market dynamic Continue Reading »