Weekly Leader Podcast

41 | Miriam Rivera, Ulu Ventures

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This week Pam speaks with Miriam Rivera, principal of Ulu Ventures, an angel investing firm and former Google VP/Assistant General Counsel. Also, Dr. Tachi Yamada's Corner Office advice, Pam's Research Report of the Week, Seth Godin's blog and podsafe music from Ingrid Michaelson.

Leadership in the News
  • Sunday New York Times Corner Office - Talk to Me. I'll Turn Off My Phone.  Tachi Yamada, M.D., president of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, says “every moment counts, and that moment is lost if you’re not in that moment 100 percent.”
    • Website of the Week / Social Media Minute
    • Seth Godin's blog
    • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?(2010) and Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (2008)
    • Dr. Ed Brenegar's Work. Life. Lead. post:  Work Life Lead: Is Showing Up Enough?
      • Pam's Research Report of the Week
      • Illuminate Ventures Whitepaper - High Performance Entrepreneurs: Women in High Tech
        • Weekly Leader
        • Miriam Rivera, Ulu Ventures
          • Google - Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
          • Stanford University - Trustee
          • Reading: The New How: Building Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy by Nilofer Merchant and The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
          • Decision Education Foundation
          • Leader Lunch:  Michelle Obama and Valarie Jarrett
          • Advice for aspiring leaders:
            • Not about where you start, it's where you finish. 
            • Learn how to be more effective as a person. Create the possibility within yourself.
            • Work hard and be willing to reach out and gain support from people who want to help you.
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              • Twitter: @WeeklyLeader, @PamFR, @PeterMello,@MVittone, @EdBrenegar, @RunDigger
                • Podsafe Music from Music Alley
                • Trance Sends by Trance Blackman
                • Lady in Spain by Ingrid Michaelson

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