It’s a smart bet to pay attention when John Hennessy shares his ideas about leading high-performance organizations. Hennessy has achieved success after success in both tech and higher education; he’s the computer scientist who started MIPS Computer Systems in the Eighties while on leave from Stanford, then returned to the university where he eventually rose to serve as president from 2000 to 2016.
“I’m an avid reader, I’m interested in a lot of topics, but believe me, there are thousands of undergraduates who know more about - pick a field - than I know about it,” he told Daniel Gross in an interview (strategy+business, Spring 2020). (That story’s here: http://bit.ly/2M14dWp)
He now teaches a freshman class in “Great Discoveries and Inventions in Computing” and is the non-executive board chair of Alphabet, parent company of Google. He has some powerful insights on “the hard parts” of leadership, like building trust with younger colleagues and making sure that people reap the positive impacts of tech.
We love this great reminder that adding humility to our core values in GO-VA was a smart bet, too.
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