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Here's an edited replay of a popular and insightful conversation with **Mark Templeton**, the former CEO of **Citrix** Systems! In this special edited version of ThriveCast (recorded in 2020), you'll gain **leadership** wisdom, personal anecdotes, and strategic **business insights** from a tech industry legend.

You'll hear Mark discuss the journey to becoming comfortable in his own skin, memorable company moments, and the crucial elements of authentic leadership. Perfect for mid-level managers looking to elevate their leadership game and gain valuable insights into growing in the tech industry.

And yes - at the very end, you'll be treated to the legendary 2001 "Virtual Workplace" video to see just how many predictions came true, and where we thought the industry was going to be!

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00:00 Introduction to the Interview

01:24 Mark Templeton's Early Career and Personal Insights

03:39 Lessons in Leadership and Authenticity

07:26 The Importance of Culture and Fit

09:27 Mark Templeton's Background and Family Influence

14:35 Educational Journey and Early Career

20:45 Career Challenges and Mentorship

32:38 Citrix Journey Begins

36:49 CEO Transition and Initial Challenges

38:24 Overcoming Early Setbacks

39:31 Strategic Acquisitions and Growth

44:19 Licensing Model Innovations

46:17 Customer and Employee Value Formula

47:18 Technology and User Experience

49:17 Mentorship and Company Culture

57:49 Final Thoughts and Reflections

59:01 Virtual Workplace Video!

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Everyone seems to think that to get anywhere in Information Technology, you have to learn more tech... get more certs...

I'm here to prove to you that this is misguided.

The four M's you need to focus on are Mastery, Mentoring, Mindset, and Methodology.

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Pierre is probably most well known for founding Norskale (now #Citrix WEM) but did you know he's got 3 patents for his work?

But the creation doesn't end there - Pierre (Max M) has over SIX MILLION streams of his music!

Catch some of his work here:

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and

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7eEKw9JAXKdWzbWtyus10c

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Jim Moyle has been an infrastructure technologist with over two decades of passionate involvement in the IT industry. Over the last decade and more he has been a specialist in the End User Computing, application and desktop delivery sector. He has worked with many blue chip companies around the globe including being involved in the architecture and delivery of some of the largest deployments in the World. As Global Black Belt for Azure Virtual Desktop he is responsible for the design and execution of many world class projects. He also enjoys speaking at various industry events such as E2EVC and Citrix Synergy and you can find him sharing knowledge on YouTube, twitter @jimmoyle and on GitHub.

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Today we are joined by EUC master Neil McLoughlin, UK Field CTO for Nerdio. Blogger, podcaster & all-around general community guy. Neil has been in IT for over 20 years, the last 10 of which have been EUC/VDI focussed. He is the co-founder of the Azure Virtual Desktop Community and also the UK Azure Virtual Desktop User Group. He is an ex-Citrix CTA and also an active Microsoft MVP. In his spare time he loves reading, spending time with his family and hiking when he is not playing around with the latest Azure Virtual Desktop features!

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Laura Whalen is one of our favorite women in Information Technology. Not just because we can totally geek out with her about IT memes, Star Trek, Ducks, Possums, puns... or whatever... but because she has a genuine heart for building community.

Today we’ll go behind the scenes and see what Laura’s journey was all about!

Laura is a generally fun person that was instrumental in founding the Citrix CTP program and “Geek Speak” at Synergy.

She was instrumental in helping Nutanix with their early community programs.

You can find her these days building a caring community at Workspot (https://www.workspot.com/)

OR find her geeking out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/shegeek

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Yes... we get to know yet another genius from The Netherlands! Bas van Kaam of Nerdio joins us on THRIVEcast!

Bas is...

-Father of Julia, Sophie, and Mex.

-Field CTO EMEA for Nerdio.

-Blogger / analyst and public speaker.

-Co-Author of the book: Project Byte Sized - Cloud Design Principles and Architectural Recommendations

-Author of the book Inside Citrix - The FlexCast Management Architecture.

He has written and redacted over 500 tech articles and multiple (ultimate) cheat sheets / e-books.

He's Co-founder and Board member of @ProByteSized, @EUCdigest, and @DWVDUG.

Owner/founder/site-editor at basvankaam.com (registered company), Windows Virtual Desktop User Group initiator.

He is a sport enthusiast (running in particular), a three-time Burpee Mile finisher, former cyclist, and semiprofessional snooker player.

He has over 20 years of IT experience, IT Community participant, intrapreneur.

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LISTEN to the book and still get all the bonuses - but also get additional content not in the original book!

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Alain (pronounced Uh-LAN) has worked in IT for 25 years. For much of that time, he’s focused on virtualization platforms from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft and several related technologies to automate, monitor, and manage the end-user experience.

He started using PowerShell in 2008 and utilizes it daily to make Citrix easier to manage for everyone. He’s worked in several diverse businesses such as architecture, small business, manufacturing/distribution, medical (hospital and medical devices), government (federal), and industrial (chemical and electronics) all with an IT focus.

He now lives in North Carolina with his wife of 22 years and his 2 teenage boys. He currently works for the second largest credit union in the USA.

Alain is a Citrix Certified Expert in Virtualization and also has the Network+ certification from CompTia.

Since September 2017, he’s been a participant in the Citrix Technology Advocates program. It provides Citrix enthusiasts meaningful recognition for their community contributions, provide unique opportunities to connect with Citrix peers and internal stakeholders.

In September 2017, his blog at Wagthereal.com (started in 2008) was included in Feedspot’s Top 50 PowerShell Blogs And Websites For Developers.

In June 2018, he became a co-leader of the Raleigh-Durham Citrix User Group.

He maintains several repositories on GitHub (including gists and code) related to managing Citrix and Windows. He has started a new blog based on Github pages where he highlights PowerShell-based solutions for managing EUC environments called PowerEUCShell.

Keep in touch with Alain:

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alainassaf

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alainassaf

WagtheReal Blog: https://wagthereal.com/

PowerEUCShell Github Pages Blog: https://alainassaf.github.io/

Github: https://github.com/alainassaf

THRIVEcast special - get a copy of DJ's book Just Do THIS and learn his secrets to success in Information Technology beyond the tech. These lessons have been crucial both for roles as an employee and consultant!

Until June 30th - get DJ's book Just Do THIS on hardcover for 50% off by completing a survey for us! https://thrive-it.com/JUNE2021

Miss the sale? No worries! head to https://thrive-it.com/JustDoTHIS and enter coupon Code THRIVECAST to get $5 off of a personalized copy… by buying direct!

LISTEN to the book and still get all the bonuses - but also get additional content not in the original book!

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The love keeps pouring in from the #Netherlands - and today's guest has contributed an amazing amount to the technology world... but has hard and fast rules about balancing his family and personal life with work that you need to hear!

Wondering about the motorcycle? So are we - we'll find out together, but here's a teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE2lht2jgEw

Ruben Spruijt is Sr. Technologist at Nutanix, former CTO at Frame and a well-regarded author, speaker, market analyst, technologist. An all-around End User Computing geek, he contributes to Nutanix product development and analyzes EUC technology trends that impacted current and future of work. Ruben is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), NVIDIA GRID Community Advisor and was in the Citrix CTP program from 2008-2017 and VMware vExpert from 2008-2018.

Ruben (co)founded several independent industry bodies such as Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC), VDI Like A Pro, Team Remote Graphics Experts (TeamRGE), WhatMatrix, AppVirtGURU wrote and co-authoring multiple disruptive research papers. Ruben has presented more than 450 sessions at national and international events such as BriForum, Citrix iForum Japan, Citrix Synergy, Gartner Catalyst, Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft TechEd, NVIDIA GTC, and VMworld.

He is based in the Netherlands where he lives with his wife and three kids.

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Rory does more than just read the week's IT news on his 5 Bytes podcast ( https://5bytespodcast.com/ ). He's been a #Citrix CTA, and CTP, #Microsoft MVP, #VMware vExpert, EUC Champion, and EUC Insider.

He is very well known for his work in application packaging as well as working in Healthcare IT. He's spent time living in the US (in Arizona) as well as his current home in Ireland.

You can catch him on the @5BytesPodcast channel right here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5CI6Etl3fmyhcmxovhowtw

THRIVEcast special - get a copy of DJ's book Just Do THIS and learn his secrets to success in Information Technology beyond the tech. These lessons have been crucial both for roles as an employee and consultant!

Head to https://thrive-it.com/JustDoTHIS and enter coupon Code THRIVECAST to get $5 off of a personalized copy… by buying direct!

LISTEN to the book and still get all the bonuses - but also get additional content not in the original book!

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