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From academic probation to co-founding a Fortune 500 company valued over 60B: Edwin Marcial discusses leadership lessons learned throughout his career

From academic probation to co-founding a Fortune 500 company valued over 60B: Edwin Marcial discusses leadership lessons learned throughout his career

Update: 2021-05-26
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Listen as Edwin discusses:

  • Dropping out of college and going back to focus on his passion - Computer Science
  • Navigating through rejection early in his career
  • Why he left a large engineering company, and chose to work for a startup
  • Transitioning away from an individual contributor to a manager/leader and CTO
  • How ICE built a culture of high performance including
    • Setting big goals
    • The importance of giving employees equity in a young company
    • Emotional intelligence - understanding the people you manage.
    • Getting the ‘right people on the bus’, motivating them and removing your worst performers
    • Managing your culture, not your people
    • Innovating by thinking differently
    • Developing a process to identify and recruit the very best people
    • Competing as a team vs competing against each other
    • Building a diverse team through a focus on skills
  • Emerging tech industries he is most excited about
  • Competing with Enron
  • Leadership in one word
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From academic probation to co-founding a Fortune 500 company valued over 60B: Edwin Marcial discusses leadership lessons learned throughout his career

From academic probation to co-founding a Fortune 500 company valued over 60B: Edwin Marcial discusses leadership lessons learned throughout his career

Edwin Marcial, Bill McElroy P.E., Various Engineering Students from the University of Florida