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Patrick Lo Netgear (NW200 No. 86) |
Art Coviello RSA Security (NW200 No. 105) | |
| Favorite business book | No-Nonsense Management: A General Manager's Primer, by Richard Sloma (I first read this in the early 1980s and it is still all true today.) | The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell. | The Slow Pace of Fast Change, by Bhaskar Chakravorti. |
| Favorite meeting place other than the office | A hotel in Carmel, Calif. | Paris. | Library Room, at Stonehedge Inn, in Tyngsboro, Mass. |
| First thing done after arriving to work | Read e-mail. | Check e-mail. | Check the flow of business from the day before. |
| Telephone or e-mail: | E-mail for regular information and casual status; phone for panic attacks. | Skype. | Either. |
| Early riser or late-night worker: | 1 a.m. late work night. | Sometimes both! (Especially when traveling.) | 5 a.m. early workday. |
| Charts & graphs or text & written explanations: | Yes (both)! | Whatever fits on my Treo 650 screen. | Numbers and written analysis. |
| Favorite way to beat stress | A gym work-out normally, but when traveling on business, a museum visit or when in Japan, a weekend at a hot spring inn. | Tai-Chi in the morning; Karaoke in the evening. | Running. |
| If not networking, would be or try: | Many, but if I have to pick one, a professional baseball player. | A tenured professor. | A high school teacher and baseball or softball coach. |
Tom Noonan Internet Security Systems (NW200 No. 101) |
John McAdam F5 Networks (NW200 No. 106) |
Umang Gupta Keynote Systems (NW200 No. 179) | |
| Favorite business book | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't, by Jim Collins. | The Innovator's Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen. | Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras. |
| Favorite meeting place other than the office | Any customer site. | Starbucks. | The Peninsula Golf and Country Club, in San Mateo, Calif. |
| First thing done after arriving to work | Greet our security personnel at the front desk and review my priorities list prepared for each day. | Check e-mail. | Check e-mail. |
| Telephone or e-mail: | Neither. Personal, face-to-face dialogue is best. E-mail has become more unproductive than productive. | E-mail. | E-mail. |
| Early riser or late-night worker: | 4 a.m. early workday. (Mornings rule.) | 5 a.m. early workday. | 1 a.m. late work night. |
| Charts & graphs or text & written explanations | Both are necessary. Neither is sufficient alone. | Charts and graphs. | Written explanations (preferably with charts and graphs). |
| Favorite way to beat stress | Work more. (Staying busy relieves stress, but I rarely ever feel stressed.) | Work out and/or “hot” Yoga. | Walk with my dog Max on Carmel beach. |
| If not networking, would be or try: | Never thought about it. | A professional soccer player/coach. | Can’t think of any. I'm having too much fun with this one! |
