I had the pleasure of spending some time at the DMGT Technology Summer School with Bill Raduchel. He had a long and interesting career before joining DMGT as a technology advisor to the board. I managed to capture some of his advice below and a couple of quotes which resonated well with me.
“Heroism is an act of stupidity that you happen to survive.” Bill Raduchel
- Open source is the only way to get the best developers as they can learn portable skills
- Proprietary systems are struggling
- John Chambers CEO Cisco: We compete against market transitions not companies
- You must get people loosely coupled but tightly aligned
- You must have a vision and be able to sell it, you must communicate it in a way that all your employees can understand
- Asking the right questions is never interference
- You must set the boundaries and then get out of the way
- Architecture is to empower your team, not constrain it
- Commitment before success is the mentality that separates people in a startup from people in a corporation
“Mindset is a value that has become a habit.” – Bill Raduchel