WITI Women Survey Questions and Responses:
1. What was your first job in technology?
Edelman Public Relations, Account Executive, San Francisco office, working for Management Science America, 1983.
2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
My parents.
3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies did you use to overcome obstacles?
Trying to please everyone all the time. I was chasing my tail. I learned the hard way that it is more important for people to respect their CEO than to love their CEO, and that sometimes you have make tough decisions that may be unpopular, but are the right business decisions in the long run. The other lesson I've learned over time is to refrain from knee jerk reactions to urgent issues and crises. A person's true leadership comes out in how they put these type of situations into a broader context and perspective, without jumping the gun, and then carefully and thoughtfully making the right decision.
Sabrina Horn answers these questions:
1. What was your first job in technology?
2. Who has been your most significant mentor? Why?
3. What has been your greatest challenge and what strategies
did you use to overcome obstacles?
4. Who has been the most influential person in your life?
Why?
5. What lessons have you learned that would be valuable to
women beginning their careers in technology?
6. What new technology do you believe will have the most positive
impact on the world in the next 20 years? The most negative impact?
On the lighter side:
1. If you could have dinner with any 2 people (living or not),
who would they be?
2. What was the last book you read? What books do you love to recommend?
3. If you couldn't do what you are doing now, what profession would you choose?
4. What is your definition of success?