Category Archives: Entrepreneurialism

The Art of the Possible?

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Rob Page

It’s finally happened; we’ve created a podcast! The Art of the Possible, co-hosted by my friend and colleague, Dan Morrison, is a conversation, often animated, between Rob Page and Dan Morrison about customer experience, technology, culture, and ethics. Special guests … Continue reading →

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Boss-ing versus Leading

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Rob Page

This.

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Balancing focus, deep competence, and diversity

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Rob Page

This post is nothing more than a pointer to an excellent article by Michael Simmons entitled, “People Who Have “Too Many Interests” Are More Likely To Be Successful According To Research.” Click over there now and read it.  It’s a … Continue reading →

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Turning employees into stark raving fans

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Rob Page

A simple idea with difficult implementation.  Making your employees stark-raving fans.  The issue?  Leadership shortcomings.  The value of turning employees into fans can’t be better expressed than in this blog post from Tony Robbins: ARE YOU TREATING YOUR EMPLOYEES LIKE … Continue reading →

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Hiring smart people

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Rob Page

This… “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” – Steve Jobs

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The importance of integrity

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Rob Page

Most of what we do in life and business is done without legal or contractual cover.  In this wild majority of situations you are trading with your integrity.  Your integrity and the effect it has on your overall reputation is … Continue reading →

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Stick to your guns; or, WHY would we EVER need THAT data?!

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Rob Page

Note to my colleagues:  this blog post is a reminder to myself that I need to stick to my guns. 🙂 I’ve long believed there are interesting and non-obvious patterns in human behavior. Uber recently shared their discovery that Uber … Continue reading →

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If a tree falls in a forest; If a packet crosses a network

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Rob Page

Some observations of late: The only reason to have a network is so that application traffic can traverse it. The days of network engineers being able to keep up by typing IOS commands are quickly coming to an end Network … Continue reading →

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Seriously – SDN is going to explode

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Rob Page

I recently joined CFN Services (check it out – despite my new bias – cool stuff :).  At CFN Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) is a massive topic.  Our CEO, Mark Casey (LinkedIn), talks about how prevalent dematerialization is.  Below, Peter … Continue reading →

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SDI, SDN, NFV, SDWAN (or Lions and Tigers and Bears, OH MY!)

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Rob Page

I was a networking person as an intern in college and during my time in the Marine Corps.  When I left active duty I crossed over to the software side of things.  I’m pretty good at technical things and a … Continue reading →

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