Posts by Carol Ross
Five Years Ago
Five years ago, I was in a lab, surrounded by phones and telephone switching equipment, isolated from the rest of the workplace by locked doors that required special security to pass through. It was a place littered with old test cases and outdated manuals and post-it notes with passwords and logins. Only the hum of…
Read MoreNetworking Event, March 19
Just a quick plug for an event that I’ll be speaking at in Denver on March 19. Where can you meet a four-time 25-year old cancer survivor, the Denver Business Journal’s 2006 Outstanding Woman in Business (Professional Category), a marketing guru who held the position of Chief Marketing Officer for major consumer product companies for…
Read MoreCash Is Queen
An article in the Wall Street Journal (dated Jan 18, 2007) is entitled, "Tech Start-Ups Have Money to Burn, But Choose Thrift." Unlike the dot-come boom of the late 90’s, when VC-financed start-ups had burn rates in the millions of dollars per month (think Pets.com), today’s start-ups are taking a wiser approach. According to the…
Read MoreA Break for SAP Users
I’m catching up on clippings from last year that show the progress of whole brain thinking in the business world–how Leading With A Whole New Mind is playing out. A Wall Street Journal article from June 2006 reports that SAP, the German software behemoth, has a formed a Design Services Team. An SAP engineer is…
Read MoreWhere Are the Girls?
I recently attended a math competition that my sons were in. It’s called Math Counts, and here’s the blurb from their website: "MATHCOUNTS® is a national math enrichment, coaching & competition program that promotes middle school mathematics achievement in every U.S. state & territory. With over 23 years experience, MATHCOUNTS is one of the most…
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