我们真的在乎高管们说什么吗?

今年我们在思科直播上录制了两期TechWiseTV节目。为一场演出做准备，对我们所有人来说都需要大量的准备和配置时间。正因为如此，我们在它开门之前就到了展区，而且在它关门后很久才离开。有一天，我们正在安装设备，有人告诉我们要安静，因为约翰·钱伯斯正在直播，他们想听。我在那讽刺的笑了“是的正确”的笑,看着周围的人分享一个“必须在营销”的笑话,但让我惊讶的是,每个人都在展位看约翰•钱伯斯的言论像修复将铅转化为金(哦,等一下我的意思是统一的黄金)。说实话，我有点被骗了。作为一名工程师，我通常不在乎一个C级主管会说些什么。我没有任何不尊重的意思。他们的语言是经过精心挑选的，这样股票市场就不会崩溃，世界上每一个该死的分析师都在寻找每一个词，就像一只饥饿的秃鹰在塞伦盖蒂平原。所以他们谨慎行事，谁又能责怪他们呢。 Hey, I am an engineer; I need the meat and tators of technology not buzzwords. Of course some CEO moments are the stuff dreams are made of. Like when 3Com's Eric Benhamou pulled them out of the core switch market or when Bill Gates plugged in a USB cable and got a BSOD or even when Jerry Yang turned down Microsoft's unreal offer for dinosaur Yahoo. But to be honest, I never watched nor attended any of these. I read about them afterwards. Just give me the Cliff Notes version in 30 words or less. Truthfully, I do not think I have ever attended a CEO's presentation that was not mandatory. When I was at HP, we used to have to attend Carly Fiorina's mind numbing over buzzword laced talks. "blah blah blah..Garage...blah blah blah...think outside the box...blah blah blah...to serve you better we cutting these benefits... she is certainly ready for politics. CEOs certainly, steer the ship and set the course of the entire company and are important folks for sure. Normally they are just not the type of folks I would want to hang out with to smoke a Rocky Patel, toss back a few Newcastles and get some lines wet. They'd start talking about multi disciplinary empowered straw man future proofing synergies for quality vectors in change catalyst and I'd fall asleep, spill my beer and wake up to their handlers making so much noise they're scaring the fish away. Nobody wants seconds on that. So I reckon I am wondering if I am alone out here on the USS CEO Boredom? Do you as an engineer actually care enough about what a CEO has to say that you'll wait in line or stop what you doing to hear it? Or is the Cliff Notes version enough? Jimmy Ray Purser Trivia File Transfer Protocol Babies pick up their parents' accents from the womb, and infants are born crying in their native dialect. Researchers found that French newborns cry in a rising French accent, and German babies cry with a characteristic falling inflection.