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Role Models for your Future


Role Models for Your Future

Who inspires you? What qualities do the leaders you admire have in common?  What can you learn from following their examples as you create your own plan for success in the business world?  Go to the Forum for this week and post your ideas about your favourite employer and employee role-models. Here are sites that may be helpful as you think about this topic..

The Role Model Project: Professional Women's Careers

Role Models on the Web - A role model site of outstanding individuals who contribute back to life: celebrities,
contemporary heroes, leaders.

Secrets of Success - Leadership styles and strategies stories

School for Champions - Traits of eCommerce Executives - Six key traits and a mini-quiz to check your
understanding

Wharton School of Business Leadership and eCommerce site - Interviews and Portraits of ecommerce  leaders

Great Business Leaders - an American site but the stories are just as inspiring as if they were Canadian!

The electronic era is breeding new leaders. Have a look. Is there someone who inspires you? What qualities do these men and women have in common?  What can you learn from following their examples as you create your own plan for success in the business world?  Go to the Forum for this week and post your ideas about your favourite e-business role-models.

Movers and Shakers in the world of E-Commerce and the World Wide Web

 
NAME  Who They Are LINK
 
Paul Allen Microsoft co-founder http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60751,00.html
Craig Barrett President and CEO of Intel http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/barrett.htm
George Bell CEO Excite/@home http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_14/b3675029.htm
Candice Carpenter Founder of ivillage.com http://www.clientplus.com/fintimes/t_leaders/tl_display.cfm?tl_ID=175
Steve Case Chairman and CEO of AOL http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_13/b3674020.htm
John Chambers Cisco Systems CEO http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/tln/exec_team/chambers/
Jim Clark Billionaire entrepreneur http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2407355,00.html
Charles Conn Ticketmaster online & CitySearch http://news.com.com/2009-1023_3-229671.html
Christos Cotsakos E*Trade Group CEO http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_39/b3648020.htm
Joy Covey Chief strategy officer at Amazon.com http://www.forbes.com/forbesglobal/99/0405/0207024a.htm
Mark Cuban MicroSolutions and AudioNet founder http://www.annonline.com/interviews/970124/
Jeffrey Dachis Razorfish Co-Chairman http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_12/b3724635.htm
John Doerr Venture capitalist http://www.fastcompany.com/online/07/082doerr.html
Larry Ellison Heads Oracle Corporation http://www.askmen.com/men/may00/24_larry_ellison.html
Judy Estrin Chief visionary officer at Cisco Systems http://www.nwfusion.com/news/power99/estrin.html
Carly Fiorino Tops powerful women list http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_31/b3640001.htm?scriptFramed
Louis Gerstner Chairman and CEO of IBM http://www.ibm.com/lvg/
Bill Gross Idealabs Founder http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/32.html
Ellen Hancock Driving force in web hosting http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_39/b3648046.htm
Russell Horowitz Strategist for cyberspace portal http://www.twst.com/notes/articles/had613.html
Tom Jermoluk Chair Excite@home http://www.pbs.org/wttw/ceoexchange/episode_101/tjermoluk_bio.html
Scott Kurnit Founder About.com http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ag111/Bellagio/kurnit.html
Mary Meeker Cyber Elite Top 50 http://www.time.com/time/digital/cyberelite/40.html
Halsey Minor Founder of CNet http://www.web2con.com/cs/web2con/view/e_spkr/1844
Michael Moritz Investments in IT http://www.sequoiacap.com/scpartner.asp?pid=4
Scott McNealy Sun Microsystems Inc. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_mcnealy.html
Jonathan Nelson Co-Founder and CEO of Organic http://www.organic.com/about/bios.jsp
Peter Neupert President and CEO drugstore.com http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_07/b3668109.htm
Jason Olim CEO and President of CDNow http://www.annonline.com/interviews/961025/biography.html
Masayoshi Son Leading Japanese deal-maker http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_39/b3648022.htm
Meg Whitman CEO of eBay http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/05.html

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