Tech Executive Larry Pendergrass offers a strategy that can be applied at all levels of the organization – but it requires the courage to implement.

Larry offers the strategy of assuring your long term career path by putting the growth and well being of the organization ahead of your own interests. The strategy of developing other people’s skills and knowledge – taking cognitive work and turning it into algorithmic work that can be executed by others.

Drawing on a long career in a variety of tech industry assignments and levels of contribution, Larry talks about how was able to use this strategy at both individual contributor or management levels. Empowering and developing others allows a number of people to solve problems in a distributed way, setting strategy, executing and performing.

Larry recommends Effective Succession Planning as a reference.

This presentation also available at www.sdrnews.com, on the SDRNews Roku channel, in the Roku Channel Store (Science and Technology Category), or by channel code SDR12. For more information, you can contact Larry at larry.pendergrass@techzecs.com

Tech Executive Larry Pendergrass expands his discussion of Emotional Intelligence, and its role in the development of Ten Tenets of Leadership – why leaders need to be very careful not to inject a separation between themselves and those that they are leading.

Drawing on a long career in a variety of tech industry assignments and levels of contribution, Larry talks about the common advice about maintaining a professional distance from those in the organization, and suggests that spending the time to build bonds with people will deliver superior results. It’s factors such as office arrangement, who you talk with, and the manner in which you interact with others.

This presentation also available at www.sdrnews.com, on the SDRNews Roku channel, in the Roku Channel Store (Science and Technology Category), or by channel code SDR12. For more information, you can contact Larry at larry.pendergrass@techzecs.com

Senior Tech Executive Larry Pendergrass continues his coaching series for managers in technology companies with examination of the role that environment can play in encouraging or discouraging innovation.

This presentation also available at www.sdrnews.com, on the SDRNews Roku channel, in the Roku Channel Store (Science and Technology Category), or by channel code SDR12. For more information, you can contact Larry at larry.pendergrass@techzecs.com