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Working With and Making Decisions with Great People

By Dominic Orr - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Dominic Orr, CEO of Aruba Networks, begins by describing two surprises he encountered when working with great people: first, how difficult it is for experienced people to change and second, how challenging it is to be intellectually honest. Orr then describes his efforts to overcome these impediments by cultivating a fast-decision making process focused on the facts and intellectual honesty. However, to achieve this environment each individual has to have a thick-skin and a commitment to self-evaluation, qualities that usually must be cultivated over time.

Course Index

  1. Transferring Big Company Culture to Startups
  2. Competing with Giants: It's All about Speed
  3. Differences between Going Public in the Dot-com and Post Dot-com Eras
  4. Private versus Public Company Tradeoffs: Building Credibility
  5. Seeking Advice and Guidance as a CEO
  6. Working With and Making Decisions with Great People
  7. Work-Life Balance for Driven People
  8. Silicon Valley Compared to the World
  9. Differences between Student Life and Professional Life
  10. Challenges in Cracking Big Markets
  11. Selling High-Tech Products and Services to an Executive Team
  12. Lessons from Applying the HP Way to Startups
  13. The Benefits of Advanced Technical Training