Life Lessons
Life Lessons: Be confident in your own ability
As Jeremy Cowan hears from Andrew Carr, managing director at Camwood, it is vital to have courage in your convictions and actions. Of course, mistakes will happen sometimes as in the rest of life but it is to be confident in your own ability.
Read moreLife Lessons: Keep resetting your career goals
Dr. William Webb, IEEE fellow and CEO of Webb Search Ltd is also co-author of ‘The 5G Myth: When vision decoupled from reality’. All of which has taught him to keep revisiting career goals. He likes to be given a challenge and the freedom to meet it. Extensive travel has also taught him to slow down, try
Read moreLife Lessons: From sci-fi and a ZX81 to plane-hopping and building a business
Jawad Ashraf, CTO and co-founder of Terra Virtua, has been a techie ever since playing with his ZX81. These days it’s a passion that drives his business. Here he shares some Life Lessons in choosing a business partner and aligning your goals with foreign partners to achieve what you both want.
Read moreLife Lessons: Have faith in your abilities, and know that it’s ok to take some risks
Travelling the world was once the norm for Jon Arnold, VP of sales, EMEA, RealWear, Inc. But working from home has improved productivity, quality of life and perhaps the planet. He couldn’t have said that if he’d become a pilot or a foreign correspondent, as he once hoped.
Read moreLife Lessons: Keep it simple and put yourself in your customers’ shoes
Simon Wilson is chief technology officer for Aruba UK & Ireland , a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. In this role, he works as a brand ambassador articulating the Aruba vision for experience-driven infrastructure.
Read moreLife Lessons: Don’t be afraid to be ambitious and voice your opinions!
Kameelah Benjamin-Fuller, PTC’s chief diversity officer, was inspired by the work that had gone into large, corporate law books that surround her as a child. She’s still inspired by her surroundings, only now they include amazing applications for the Internet of Things, as well as the beauty and intellectual stimulus of Iceland.
Read moreLife Lessons: Chef to the Queen, weapons trainee, and bank CTO – it’s no ordinary route to the top
Alan Payne describes the extraordinary path that has brought him to become CIO at Sensyne Health, and the lessons learned along the way.
Read moreLife Lessons: Dodging the dockyard, Waite aligned with people first and found business usually follows
Career openings in computer software were non-existent when Gary Waite, head of eSIM Strategy at Sim Local, started job hunting. He’s since travelled the world and learned to get to know people’s objective then find a way to work together.
Read moreLife Lessons: Graduate attorney, consultant, entrepreneur, COO. Don’t be risk averse
Chris Port is chief operating officer of Boomi, a Dell Technologies business, but he’s worn many business hats along the way. They have taught him many lessons, one of the most important being to take entrepreneurial risks early in life. Here he shares his experiences with IoT Now.
Read moreLife Lessons: Rock star to resistors to robotics
A love of guitars led Tom Canning indirectly to the Internet of Things and his role as head of IoT and Devices at Canonical. Here, he tells IoT Now how his imagination was fired up lately by an enhanced computer vision use case, he shares about his worst boss, and the importance of listening to
Read moreLife Lessons: Look at business as a game of chess
A sense of perspective is vital in business, says Terry Greer-King, vice president of EMEA, at Sonic Wall Inc. Take time to look at how individual challenges link together. And he’s seen it’s OK to be driven, but leaders need to work with their team.
Read moreLife Lessons: Focus narrowly when you’re building a business
Alan Grau, VP of IoT at Sectigo, has been fascinated by business since the age of 10. Along the way, other people’s mistakes have taught him only to hire friends if they’re qualified, and to be ready for competition and opportunity wherever it comes from.
Read moreLife lessons: From counting stars, to making marketing strategies
Shashi Kiran, chief marketing and product officer at Aryaka, which delivers fully managed, end-to-end global SD-WAN service for the cloud-first era tells IoT Now’s Jeremy Cowan how travelling influences planning and directing marketing strategies.
Read moreLife Lessons: Don’t sweat it!
Jason Soroko, CTO-IoT for Sectigo tells Jeremy Cowan he expects predictive maintenance to have a lasting impact on all our lives.
Read moreLife Lessons: From saving bees to learning from Chernobyl
Charles Towers-Clark, founder and CEO of IoT solution provider Pod Group, tells IoT Now’s Jeremy Cowan how he has learned from navigating complicated, centralised bureaucracies.
Read moreLife Lessons: Will we pay for a car or healthcare with our data?
Nikita Ivanov, co-founder and CTO, GridGain Systems tells IoT Now’s Jeremy Cowan how important it is to delegate, and how data may subsidise our future cars.
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