Leading Eventbrite has taught me a lot about how to connect with people to drive results.
I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.
If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.
You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.
If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.
Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
In today's roller-coaster economy, hyper-competitive, fear-based, flat and global world, convincing anyone to do anything at any time requires getting their attention, creating their intention and turning it to action.
