Author Archives: Joel Trammell

Manage the Future, Not the Past

If the company is the bus and its leader is the driver, as Jim Collins’s famous analogy states, then it stands to reason that when the bus is moving, the driver should mostly be looking out the windshield (toward the future) rather … Read More

Likelihood and Quality: The Two Questions at the Heart of Khorus

In the mid-2000s, I was running NetQoS, the network management software firm I cofounded with my wife in 1999. I was years into my CEO journey, and I’d gotten a pretty good feel for the unique challenges of the role. … Read More

The Best Definition of Entrepreneurship I’ve Heard So Far

If you had to explain to someone who was learning English what an entrepreneur is, what would you say? Maybe it seems like a simple question, but the meaning of the word can get slippery. Howard Stevenson, a longtime professor … Read More