Upcoming Speakers

John Lilly

CEO, Mozilla Corporation

Managing In / With / Around / By Chaos

In an ever-changing and increasingly competitive global market, companies must leverage innovative organizational strategies in order to successfully capture a global market competitive edge.

In an unlikely turn of events, the open source, non-profit Mozilla has risen from the ashes of Netscape to build the Firefox web browser and compete with Microsoft, a company nearly a thousand times larger. At 20% of worldwide market share for web browsing with fewer than 200 employees, Mozilla has figured out how to make a global, mixed volunteer-and-employee, mission-oriented product succeed and thrive in the market.

In this session, you will learn some of the techniques the Mozilla project has used to do this, and the ways in which they're relevant to your business:

• How open source differs from traditional means of producing software

• How hybrid business models can yield new types of leverage

• How small companies can use leverage to compete with global gorillas

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Carol S. Dweck

Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Mindset, Motivation and Leadership

Why do so many confident and charismatic leaders ultimately fail? And why do they fail to motivate their workers?

In this lecture, Professor Dweck explains how leaders' mindsets affect their ability to grow and learn on the job, a quality that is essential in today's rapidly changing business world. She compares leaders with a fixed mindset (the assumption that basic human talents are carved in stone) to leaders with a growth mindset (the assumptions that talents can be developed) and shows how a fixed mindset limits leaders' openness to feedback, their ability to motivate and develop their workers, and their long-term achievement. Malcolm Gladwell, in "The Talent Myth" used Professor Dweck's work to explain the fall of Enron.

You will learn:

• The different psychological world created by the fixed and growth mindsets
• How these play out in the organization
• How an emphasis on talent can be harmful
• How to cultivate a growth mindset
• How to praise, criticize, and evaluate workers to create optimal motivation

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