What are the ways in which an organization develops its top talent, and is the selection criteria biased in a way that self selects people who look like those already in key positions? By Telle Whitney (President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute) John Chambers recently wrote a memo to his leadership team articulating his realization [...]
Posts Tagged "Cisco"
PITCH NYC 2012: Sandy Lerner (Cisco & Urban Decay Founder) Talks Competitive Advantage, Venture Capital And Startup Funding With CNBC Reporter Seema Mody
November 14, 2012 – 8:31 am
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition – By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, CNBC reporter Seema Mody interviewed Sandy Lerner of Cisco Systems, now a large cap company which Seema Mody speaks about on CNBC. Sandy Lerner co-founded Cisco Systems on December 10, 1984 and [...]
Keynote Speakers Announced For PITCH NYC 2012 Conference In November: Sandy Lerner (Cisco, Urban Decay), Geraldine Laybourne (Oxygen) And Fran Maier (Match.com, TRUSTe)
October 2, 2012 – 12:36 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We are excited to announce our three keynote speakers for PITCH NYC Conference & Competition on November 14, 2012. We are thrilled that Sandy Lerner, co-founder of tech giant Cisco and cosmetics company Urban Decay will be joining us and presenting the morning keynote at PITCH NYC [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Literally Married To Your Co-Founder
May 4, 2012 – 9:54 am
From tech giants Cisco and VMware to startups ModCloth and Lynda, married co-founders are everywhere. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We often joke about our “work husbands” and “work wives” but realized this week that we know a flurry of married startup co-founders. Both Founder Friday hosts (Julia Hartz of Eventbrite and [...]
Imposter Syndrome And How To Beat It: Cisco Co-Founder Sandy Lerner And Barbara Tuchman
April 13, 2012 – 6:00 am
Learn from Cisco co-founder Sandy Lerner and author Barbara Tuchman. By Larry Chiang (CEO, Duck9 & Stanford University EIR) Mis-representation is something that many truly academically qualified people fear. I found out that that this is called the Imposter Syndrome pattern. When we as incredibly talented, academically book-smart women enter entrepreneurship, imposter syndrome pitfalls are [...]
Cisco Tech Chief Outlines Women’s Advantages in Tech
October 30, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Bianca Bosker (Technology Editor, The Huffington Post) Cisco Systems’ chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior is one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. She is responsible for around two-thirds of Cisco’s revenues, which totaled $43 billion in the most recent fiscal year and, with her colleague Pankaj Patel, oversees more than 22,000 engineers. [...]
