Why Silicon Valley Lacks True GMs?

I made the comment in an earlier post that Yahoo now needs true GMs, not just glorified functional managers. As I wrote that piece, it made me reflect on the significance of what I just said. Silicon Valley is not a place that has that many true General Managers. In the sense that GE or

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A-Players, A-Teams

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author How does one identify and recruit top notch executives, A-players? How does one make that top notch talent work as a top notch executive team, A-team?

Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 12)

When Maggie arrived at Citizen, one of her first goals was to develop a strong leadership team. Here she discusses her philosophy on establishing a leadership team as well as how she assembled her current team at Citizen. SM: This is probably not a good question for a public company CEO, but it looks like

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 2)

Here we trace some of Maggie’s early career steps, most notably her entrance into software and cable service industries when they were both in their infancy. What were some of your early career steps? Would you walk through them quickly and then come to McCaw Cellular? MW: When I graduated form college I got married

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Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 1)

Maggie Wilderotter is the current CEO of Citizen Communications (CZN). Citizen is an industry leader in rural telecommunication services with 2006 revenues of $2B. It offers ILEC services under the Frontier name in the United States. I was introduced to Maggie as one of the most impressive women executives. [Bio] SM: Let’s start with your

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Meg Whitman?

WSJ article on Meg Whitman. Draw your own conclusions …