eugene kleiner's laws

Eugene Kleiner was a founder of Fairchild Semiconductor where he played a key role in the growth of the company and the semiconductor industry.

Eugene received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York and an MS in Industrial Engineering from New York University. In 1989, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic University of New York.

Kleiner’s Laws

* Make sure the dog wants to eat the dog food. No matter how ground-breaking a new technology, how large a potential market, make certain customers actually want it.
* Build one business at a time. Most business plans are overly ambitious. Concentrate on being successful in one endeavor first.
* The time to take the tarts is when they're being passed. If an environment is right for funding, go for it. Eugene, more than anyone, knew that venture capital goes in cycles.
* The problem with most companies is they don't know what business they're in.
* Even turkeys can fly in a high wind. In times of strong economies, even bad companies can look good.
* It's easier to get a piece of an existing market than to create a new one.
* It's difficult to see the picture when you're inside the frame.
* After learning some of the tricks of the trade, some people think they know the trade. This reflected some of Eugene's own humility; he recognized that many venture capitalists thought they were experts when they had just a bit of knowledge.
* Venture capitalists will stop at nothing to copy success.
* Invest in people, not just products. Eugene always respected founding entrepreneurs. He wanted to build companies with them not just with their ideas.

how not to conduct meetings from daily idea

how not to conduct meetings.

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5 tips from leo kiely on meshing two established business cultures

5 tips from leo kiely on meshing two established business cultures

1. stay focused on what you have in common.
2. keep a healthy respect for the differences that makeyou stronger.
3. set big goals that inspire your leadership team and your people through times of transition.
4. say it again and again and again. it takes a long time to communicate your vision and future to every employee,everywhere.
5. share best practices and celebrate the wins. nothing sends a clear message about the way to work together than calling out the best in the business and celebrating together.

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5 Tips from Alan Mulally for Taking On a New company in an Unfamiliar Industry

i read this from an article on wall st. journal.

5 Tips from Alan Mulally for Taking On a New company in an Unfamiliar Industry

1. deal with reality, and restructure accordingly.
2. talk to everybody - customers, dealers, employees, union leaders, supplliers, investors.
3. fine-tune the business plan every week - not once a year.
4. get all the players at the table.
5. encourage subordinates to disclose problems.

5 Tips for Assuming a Leadership Position from David Zaslav

1. Get on board and lead.
2. In the toughest times be positive and optimistic.
3. People still want to learn and be inspired.
4. It pays to set a high standard, be patient and do things differently.
5. Take a job that you love.

The Speechmaker: How Bill Gates Got Ready for Harvard

In one of the issues of the Wall St. Journal last week there was an article about how Bill Gates prepared for his harvard's commencement speech. He started the process six months prior to the event. He read Nobel Prize acceptance speeches of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi abd bacteriologist Robert Koch, among others. He also studied Harvard commencement speeches of Bill Clinton and Bono.

Then he saw the framed copy of George Marshall Harvard's speech at the State Deptartment. It was about how "enormous complexity" of problems facing postwar Europe makes it "exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation."

The word complexity struck him because he had been talking to the billionaire investor Mr. Warren Buffet about how the complexity of certain things in society hinders people from fully understanding them, and ultimately impedes growth.In his analytical style which he became famous in high-tech circles, he recommended a four-point plan for attacking a complex problem:
* determine a goal,
* find the "highest-leverage approach,"
* discover the ideal technology for that approach,"
* and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have."

He used "The AIDS epidemic" in citing each of the points.He exhorted that each graduates to take on an issue and "become a specialist on it" even if they devote just a few hours everyweek.

Thanks Mr. Gates.