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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