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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. Before leaving government service one of my biggest challenges was to understand how my skill as a Case Officer would translate into a job in the commercial world. Security roles : Some ex-Agency people gravitate to roles in security.

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1

Steve Blank

Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. Today, I get to move our national security mission in emerging technologies farther and faster in ways that I could not in government. Below is the first of her three-part series. You can move at exponential speed.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

We just completed the fourth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. In the U.S.,

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Does Your Nonprofit Need an Advisory Board?

Board Effect

The fact that your board is having a discussion about forming an advisory board is a good indication that it’s time to put the issue on your board’s agenda for discussion. You never know what experiences and perspectives your fellow board members will have on a certain topic once you bring it out into the open.

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Did you know that board management software isn’t just for boards?

Board Effect

Securing sensitive data. Any sensitive data and information that they work with needs to be done securely and kept protected. How board management software can help Many think of board management software as primarily serving the needs of the board — understandable, given that these tools are part of a high functioning board’s success.

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Basics and Best Practices for Nonprofit Board Governance

Board Effect

Nonprofit board governance serves two very important purposes – fulfilling your nonprofit’s mission and ensuring its sustainability. Separately and together, nonprofit boards and governance play essential roles in the nonprofit sector, and it’s important to note the distinction between them.

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[Interview] Hitachi Data Systems’ Hu Yoshida On Startups And Storage Virtualization

YoungUpstarts

He also served on the advisory boards of several technology companies and currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Data Storage Institute of the Government of Singapore. What about data security? A lot of places really don’t secure their data and it’s a very real problem today.