Executive Speeches articles from October 2000

Executive Speeches archives from October 2000

Enabling E-Interactions.(IBM Personal Systems Group)
October 1, 2000... Good Morning. It's a pleasure and privilege to be here with you today. In looking over your agenda for the conference--with all the speakers and all the topics covered--it was hard for me to figure out an approach that would be new and...

Help Wanted: "Busineers".
October 1, 2000... Good morning, and thank you, Dean Joiner, for that generous introduction. I especially appreciate that you did not use the introduction given at a recent Midwest event for the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral William Crowe....

Walking Down Wilshire: California's Role in the Changing Financial Services Industry.(Martin D. McGuinn of Mellon Financial Corp.)
October 1, 2000... Good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me to share some thoughts today with you. I'm happy to be here, because Mellon Financial Corporation believes in the future of the financial services marketplace here in Los Angeles, throughout...

New Kid on the Block: Launching Your Business and Your Brand Successfully in an E-based Economy.(Cynthia Lewis of Telus Corp.)
October 1, 2000... Thank you, Dodie. And good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's an honour to be here, and I am doubly honoured that the Board of Trustees is part of this morning's meeting. Today, I'm going to talk with you about some the challenges I've faced...

The Unknown Soldiers in Our Midst.(Harry C. Stonecipher)
October 1, 2000... One morning long ago, a small band of volunteers in this town were asked to surrender a fort to a large army that had surrounded them during the night. They answered with a canon shot. In the furious battle that followed, every one of the...

Connecting with Society: The Changing Role of the Corporation.(Jac Nasser of Ford Motor Co.)
October 1, 2000... As I hope you have noticed, we're doing things very differently at Ford Motor Company these days. The changes we're making will affect our customers, our shareholders, our communities, and people around the world. They could even affect how you...

From Wild West to Wild Web: Public Intellectuals & the Cyberspace Frontier.(Paul Ashdown)
October 1, 2000... Cyberanthropologists are the people who are trying to explain the new Internet world to the rest of us. I did a search and found 491 web pages devoted to cyberanthropology. It appears that one can become a self-proclaimed cyberanthropologist...