by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 31, 2017
A reluctant storyteller at first, Sandberg now shares personal stories of grief and resilience to inspire audiences. Facebook COO and founder of the Lean In movement Sheryl Sandberg delivered an emotional commencement speech last week to the graduating class of...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 29, 2017
Each and every day IBM’s Watson works alongside business professionals in 45 countries, analyzing volumes of data to make better decisions and to solve big problems. But ask the average person about Watson and they might recognize it as ‘the computer’ that beat two...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 26, 2017
I haven’t seen this many moats since the last season of Game of Thrones. The word ‘moat’ is the latest buzzword in Silicon Valley and it’s appearing more often in the business pages. The trend is not as odd as it might appear. According to one analysis, tech company...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 25, 2017
TED speakers use a practical method to create short presentations from hundreds of pages of content. In the last two weeks since the annual TED Talks conference, I’ve had the opportunity to speak directly to two of this year’s notable speakers. Both are...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | May 9, 2017
How the billionaire Warren Buffett uses a classic rhetorical technique to make the complex simple. Last weekend, 40,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders descended on Omaha, Nebraska, to watch Warren Buffett and his partner, Charlie Munger, hold court. The two...
