Climbing and Running
7 marathons. 7 continents. 7 years.
The Next Mountain
May 26, 2010 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
The call came out of the blue.
Literally. While I was in South Africa.
This is Kate with so-and-so executive recruiting agency. I’m calling to see if you are interested in discussing an opportunity with Juniper Networks heading their strategic alliance business towards Ericsson.
I say, sure, let’s talk tomorrow when I am back in Seattle.
Over the course [...]
Running and Thinking
May 30, 2009 by Mitch Lewis · 2 Comments
I realized somehow that it had been almost two weeks since my last post – how could that be? Where did the time go? If I were to write on two relevant topics it would be around getting into a routine, thinking time, and new company adaptation. I finally got in a long run today [...]
Moving to Seattle and Microsoft – The Transition
April 19, 2009 by Mitch Lewis · 1 Comment
I recently accepted a new position at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington and my first official day is tomorrow Monday (April 20th) while my last day was this past Friday (the 17th). I have had the weekend as “transition time”, though in the past several weeks I worked hard to both wrap things up at Dilithium [...]
Leadership attributes in climbing and running
February 28, 2009 by Mitch Lewis · 4 Comments
As someone who has done marathons on all seven continents and climbed the highest summits on five of the same seven continents, I’ve had time to reflect about how the challenges related to business and my own performance are intertwined.
While some areas are easy to identify (life is a marathon for example), the whole end-to-end [...]
Good to Great – and Climbing
February 24, 2009 by Mitch Lewis · Leave a Comment
I just read an interview with “management guru” Jim Collins (who wrote Built to Last and Good to Great) where he compares management and leadership of companies to climbing. Jim has his own 30-year amazing record of rock climbing some of the most famous and hardest places of the world and he often writes about [...]
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