by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 7, 2018
NBA fans who spent more than one million hours pouring over basketball stats can thank enterprise software company SAP. As the 2018 NBA Finals get underway between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, fans will once again be checking stats on...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 6, 2018
Hans Rosling was a famed Swedish statistician and widely admired TED speaker. Rosling passed away before he could see his new book, Factfullness, climb to the top of the New York Times bestseller lists. Bill Gates calls the book one of the most important he’s ever...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 5, 2018
I’ve been speaking recently on the topic of communication skills to advance a person’s career. In my presentations I talk about Indra Nooyi’s “5 C’s” model of leadership. She presented it publicly several years ago, but it’s more relevant today than ever. When I speak...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Apr 14, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces his toughest task this week—to persuade lawmakers and the public that he takes privacy seriously and will implement the steps necessary to restore the public’s trust after recent privacy issues has shaken confidence in the platform....
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Apr 9, 2018
The California wine industry is rich with characters, mavericks and risk-takers. It’s one of the reasons I enjoy meeting and learning about the pioneers who put California’s wine regions on the map. One of those pioneers passed away recently—Robert Haas. He co-founded...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Apr 5, 2018
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella read a book that changed his outlook on leadership and business. The book was Mindset by award-winning Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck. In the 2006 book Dweck explores the habit of having a “growth mindset:” the belief that our potential...
