A great talk by Carly Fiorina

I've been going through the talks on Stanford's Entrepreneurship website.  They host a series of talks by technology industry leaders.  Lots of different topics.  Usually followed by some great Q&A.  In particular, I really enjoyed former HP CEO Carly Fiorina's talk: Leadership and Capability.  Its a gem. Here are some of the notes I jotted down while listening.

• One must distinguish the truly important from the merely interesting
• A leader's job is to see possibilities and to help people seize possibilities
• Some early leader's in Carly's life recognized talent in her: "They saw potential in me and it made me see potential in myself."
• Everybody is afraid of something. Most people are afraid of something new. Thus you must give them some vision to strive towards
• No company can rely on its history.
• If values matter, then you need to coach,develop and measure based on those values.

There is also a really solid Q&A at the end. It starts out with a disgruntled former employee who uses the question time to attack the speaker.  She handles the situation smoothly and firmly.  A great example of handling conflict. 

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