by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jun 26, 2019
Earlier this month an anonymous bidder paid $4.5 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett. If the bidder asks Buffett for career advice, we already know what the billionaire will say—and it won’t cost you a dime. “Communications skills are the first area I would...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jun 23, 2019
Former Amazon executive John Rossman recalls attending meetings of the company’s senior leaders (S-teams) and sitting in silence for fifteen or twenty minutes before an active discussion began. During that silence, CEO Jeff Bezos and the other senior leaders were...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jun 12, 2019
“We like to set crazy big goals and make them happen,” Canva CEO and co-founder, Melanie Perkins, told me in a recent conversation. Crazy big understates Canva’s rare and remarkable accomplishment. Canva is one of only 300 or so private companies around the...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Jun 12, 2019
Ask Game of Thrones fans about the final episode and you’ll get an earful. There’s no shortage of opinions on social media. While the finale might be debated for years, what isn’t up for debate is that the show scored a home run for HBO, setting a record with 19.3...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 24, 2019
The secret weapon that helped the Allied powers win World War II nearly didn’t see the light of day. The U.S. Navy had the tool in its possession for eighteen years and didn’t even know it. The weapon was radar. In 1922, two engineers—including the Navy’s senior radio...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 10, 2019
Malala Yousafzai was just eleven years old when she discovered the power of her voice to advocate for a girl’s right to education. Six years later, she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest-ever Nobel laureate. Malala credits her father, Ziauddin, for...
