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Five Things Chris Gardner Has Learned About What It Takes To Be Successful

Kristin Burnham — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Chris Gardner knows what it takes to be successful in business. Once homeless, he's the founder and CEO of Gardner Rich, a private stock-brokerage firm, and author of the autobiography-turned-movie The Pursuit of Happyness.

5 Things iRobot President Helen Greiner Has Learned About Innovation

Kristin Burnham — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Helen Greiner is president and cofounder of iRobot, a company that invents military and household robots. Innovation, she says, is the essence of her business.

Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

It's hard enough for managers to motivate and track employees whose livelihood depends on doing a good job. Imagine the project management task for Linux, the free software operating system. Linus Torvalds explains how he keeps the people and software on-track, with the software quality the operating system demands.

Five Things Kevin Mitnick Has Learned About Computer Security

Jarina D'Auria — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Legendary former hacker and security consultant Kevin Mitnick on hacking, being hacked, and turning a blind eye to securing data.

Five Things William Cohen Has Learned from Peter Drucker

Jarina D'Auria — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Author of A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World's Greatest Management Teacher, William Cohen shares what he learned about leadership, management and strategy from working under this great teacher.

Five Things Jim Champy Has Learned About Beating The Competition

Jarina D'Auria — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Leadership expert Jim Champy co-wrote Reengineering the Corporation. His latest book is "Outsmart! How to Do What the Competition Can't". Champy talks with CIO about competition, innovating through hard times, and the CIO/CEO partnership.

Five Things Don Tapscott Has Learned about Collaboration

Jarina D'Auria — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Wikinomics author Don Tapscott says transparency and collaboration are central to business success today. Open corporations perform better, he says, so you could say they "undress for success."

Five Things Twitter's CEO Has Learned About What You Are Doing

C.G. Lynch — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT

How Jack Dorsey figured out that short is sweet, flexibility is essential and applications should work so that people don't have to be at their computers all day long.

Five Things John O'Hurley Has Learned About Customer Service

Jarina D'Auria — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Actors know a thing or two about serving the customer. "Seinfeld" alum John O'Hurley talks about how bad customer service inspired him to make business training videos and explains why IT must be mindful of its customers.

Five Things Tom Perkins Has Learned About Business

Steff Gelston — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT

VC legend Tom Perkins cofounded Silicon Valleys Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which jumpstart companies such as Google and Genentech. He shares his thoughts on on CIOs, bringing new technology to market, and the Hewlett-Packard affair.

Five Things Tom Ridge Has Learned About Risk

Katherine Walsh — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:00:00 GMT

Tom Ridge is the two-term governor of Pennsylvania and first U.S. secretary of homeland security. Ridge believes another terrorist attack is likely and speaks out on the need to battle complacency in the corporate and political spheres.

5 Things I've Learned About Privacy

Steff Gelston — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:00:00 GMT

As founder of the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and business ethics think tank, Dr. Larry Ponemon worries society will give up on privacy ideals as protecting personal data becomes harder.

Five Things I've Learned About Change

Katherine Walsh — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:00:00 GMT

Change leadership guru and Harvard Business School professor John Kotter on coping with change, adaptability and his favorite leader.

Five Things Wikipedia's Founder Has Learned About Online Collaboration

C.G. Lynch — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:00:00 GMT

Jimmy Wales explains his views on effective collaboration, organization and what 'World of Warcraft' wiki writers can teach us about shared ideals.

Five Things Alph Bingham Has Learned About Collaboration

C.G. Lynch — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:00:00 GMT

Collaborate or die. Innocentive cofounder Alph Bingham says online collaboration is becoming a business-critical practice for research and development.