Microsoft Lesson: What to Do When Tech Fails

Microsoft Lesson: What to Do When Tech Fails

In 1995, Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder & former CEO, was delivering a pre-launch presentation of Windows 98 live on national TV. As a colleague plugged in a scanner, the computer suddenly crashed and showed the dire “Blue Screen” message… With cameras...
Microsoft Lesson: What to Do When Tech Fails

The Buck Stops Here: A Lesson in Professional Accountability

At a conference last month, I sat next to a professionally dressed and extremely articulate young man who’d recently been hired as COO of a medical services company. “What are your biggest challenges?” I asked him. He went on to explain that his board of directors was...
Microsoft Lesson: What to Do When Tech Fails

5 Tips to Influence & Lead Others — Even Without Authority

A recent participant in a BRODY training program contacted me last week via e-mail. “I’ve been put in charge of a large project and was told to choose my own team from any departments in the organization,” she wrote. “If successful, it will be the beginning of a whole...
Microsoft Lesson: What to Do When Tech Fails

5 Small Talk Strategies to Build Business Relationships

At a recent business conference, I had the good fortune to meet many speakers whom I’d admired for a long time. There was one woman in particular that I was eager to chat with — I’d read two of her books, followed her blog and was fascinated by her career and...
Microsoft Lesson: What to Do When Tech Fails

Social Media Can Influence Your Hiring Decisions

Social media can be a useful tool for managers when hiring, promoting or even assigning new projects. Your job candidates or high potentials look great on paper, and present well in person, but does their professionalism extend to their online presence? Consider...