Moving the Book Forward
5 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster January 21st, 2010 in Network Solutions.The team here is beginning to come together after a very active travel schedule. My daughter returned this weekend from the Galapagos Islands, and my caregivers seem to be back to work. The weather here in San Diego right now is beginning to remind me of the East Coast instead of Southern California. There are very strong winds and rain, with trees falling down and flooding in a number of areas. So far the weather hasn’t slowed me down very much, but I don’t think we’ll be taking the boat to Oceanside this week.
Thank you for your continuing feedback on the book. We have gotten some very good suggestions on what should be included from our blog readers. We will focus on moving the book forward during the next month or two. Some successful books have come out recently that were self-published. It may turn out that that is what we will have to do. If so, we’ll do it.
– Bob
Bob, in answer to your question, I moved from SAIC/Telcordia to Penn State as the assocaion dean for their executive education program in 2004 – an interesting transition from corporate life to university life but well worth the change. Again, running a P&L education business serving worldwide clients for open enrollment or custom programs with many F 500 clients.
In addition to educational administration, I teach in one of our senior management programs as well as do a number of seminars/speaking engagements on Managing Across Generations, Professional Protocol, and Dining Etiquette.
I have written a column and blog (Thinking Ahead in Business) on the first Sunday of every month since 2007.
Live and work out of State College, PA, still get some golf in, and wife and family are all fine as I hope yours are as well.
The one thing I always tell associates about you (when talking about former leaders I have worked with and for) is that you were the very “best listener and note taker” -with that small pocket sized notebook.
Wishing you a very happy and healthy 2010.
Pat
Bob,
While the idea for NSI helped move the internet forward for the world – it takes more than an idea to make this happen.
The real help this book could provide is not just talking about the idea and technology – but in the ways in which you and your peers drove forward with the business side. There are many technology people who might have great new ideas – yet have now knowledge on how to “make the business happen”
So while you build on the history of developing technology and operating systems – don’t forget to discuss the practical business people that were involved to make the actuall company perform.
Think about it – all those brilliant engineers and scientists with SAIC could never have spun off companies if there were not some business orientation that allowed them to actually create a business.
The true entreprenurial spark is the matching between a product/service (the engineer, scientist, inventor) and how the conceptual idea may be transformed into a business organization – and most importantly – there is a planned for market.
Cheers,
Blake
Bob, Am sure that Year 2010 will the best year ever for promoting the F.E.D. agenda. ~Andre, M.
Pat: Good to hear from you. I’ve abandoned my pocket notebooks. I now use scraps of paper to record my thoughts. — Bob
Andre: The FED programs are planned, supervised, and managed by my daughter Mary Ann. Among other things, the FED promotes the notion of employee-owned companies and publicizes both their successes and lessons learned. It also makes grants to other organizations to study various aspects of employee ownership, and we’re publishing our results. The FED also provides support to DARPA’s SBIR program. Good to hear from you. — Bob