Barry's BlogTuesday, March 20 2007 Is Technology Important to Success?
The American journalist and satirist Ambrose Bierce, best known for his Devil's Dictionary, once defined an inventor as: "A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs, and believes it civilization." Most of us would beg to differ with his jaded view of modern-day inventions, and yet oftentimes we are not so sure of the proper place of technology in the world of business. I recently came across an interview with John Chambers, CEO of tech giant Cisco Systems, in USA Today's Executive Suite, where Chambers talked about the important role of technology in the business world. Here are some of his more important observations when interviewed by USA Today's corporate management reporter, Del Jones.
Q: Retired Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill says he didn't use a computer, not even for e-mail. Yet he was successful. Maybe an understanding of technology isn't important at the CEO level.
Q: What opportunities are lost when a CEO is technologically ignorant?
Q: Do you find it harder to learn new technology the older you get?
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