Align employees with your company culture
By Sumantra Sengupta Over the years, I have had the pleasure of serving a range of organizations from cool startups to the Fortune 100 global giants. Very little of what I learned in business school prepared me for the various mental machinations that I had to perform to align and succeed in these different environments. Read More →
Read More →Dubroff: New leaders will shape city, county of San Luis Obispo
What a difference a decade makes. San Luis Obispo County entered the recession with a relatively weak private sector driven by a single industry — real estate. It also had talented and experienced fiscal hands at the helm of the city and county government. Fast forward 10 years and the change is 180 degrees. The Read More →
Read More →Dubroff: When it comes to LA and the Olympics, let the games begin
Los Angeles has won the right to host the 2028 Olympics. It will likely not be the last time the city welcomes the world’s top athletes to Southern California. In a split decision that was heralded as a successful combination of international deal making and diplomacy, the International Olympic Committee awarded the next two games Read More →
Read More →How pirate tactics built an entrepreneurial ecosystem
By Reneé Rock “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.” When Steve Jobs uttered this phrase, he was speaking to the Mac team, which had become a kind of splinter group with its own identity within Apple. Jobs knew what he was up against at fast-growing Apple and intuitively understood that Read More →
Read More →Our view: Grant will help museum create sustainable future
Ventura County has taken a big step toward creating a living legacy for future generations with interim funding to bolster the Museum of Ventura County. A $125,000 grant was approved by the Board of Supervisors in a 4-1 vote on July 25, paving the way for the city of Ventura and private donors to step Read More →
Read More →Residents can learn from international students
By Loredana Carson International students planning to attend colleges and universities in the tri-county area may fear being unwelcome due to media coverage of negative comments, but once they arrive they are generally met with a lack of attention. Students in my classes have expressed dismay to me that they don’t often have the opportunity Read More →
Read More →Our view: SLO invests in future by approving housing
These days, the headlines on the housing front are grim indeed. The New York Times described Coastal California as being in the middle of a full blown crisis with average home prices crossing $500,000 and making much of the state out of reach for all but the wealthiest families. Gov. Jerry Brown has not yet Read More →
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