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Pre-Retirement Interview With Intel CEO Barrett
kevcol writes "The San Francisco Chronicle has an excellent interview with Intel's CEO Craig Barrett who retires next year. In it, he is asked about topics ranging from labor distribution (oh I'm sorry- outsourcing), the Chinese market, the perils and promise of expanding operations in the Middle East, the state of K-12 schools in the U.S. and declining numbers of home-grown engineers, and more. Notably absent are any questions of AMD. Notice how he likes to pick on sensationalist press by prepending some comments with 'you in the media...'. Anyway, good interview."
"We have very high standards for our performance at Intel, for a variety of reasons. The memo was in reference to our performance and (said) that we could improve our performance and we should improve our performance." How many times can you say performance?
The following quote just tells me how hard CEOs must work:
A: We have very high standards for our performance at Intel, for a variety of reasons. The memo was in reference to our performance and (said) that we could improve our performance and we should improve our performance.
while working for Scorpio:
Homer(to some geeks):"Are you guys working?"
Geeks:"Yes sir."
Homer:"Can you work harder?"
Oy, and he wonders why Americans don't want to become engineers anymore.....
Monstar L
it hardly goes in deep to any of the subjects.
when you read it, what's left is that the guy is a big fan of tests(exams) to put people in a nice order(from best to worst) and that he would have chosen forestry if it had been available in stanford.
*** Balance your personal life with your professional life, but do both at 200 miles an hour.
Q: What do you play hard at?
A: I play hard at outdoor activities. My wife and I own a ranch in Montana, which we get to as often as we can. When I was a little kid, I always wanted to be a forest ranger, but I went to Stanford and they don't have a school in forestry, so I became an engineer. But I've always had this passion to be a forest ranger, so now I have a ranch in Montana, and I'm my own forest ranger.
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there's a golden nugget of insight right there, when you're growing a forest DO IT AT 200 MPH! damn is he gonna be disappointed after planting those trees and watching them grow at abit less than 200mph for a long time..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Craig you were never more than a "More of the same thing too" guy. You were never more than a "Whatever you say Mr. Bill, you da Man!" guy. You were never more than the mouthpiece for your institutional investors.
Face it Craig. You were always bush league. You're not qualified to carry Andy's Volt Ohm Meter.