Best known as a writer and advisor to CEOs, Strat has been an intimate observer of the technology scene for three decades. As a senior reporter and writer for Fortune magazine, he covered Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Wall Street, He co-authored Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will, the definitive study of the Jack Welch era at GE. Since leaving journalism, Strat has advised CEOs and leadership teams, principally serving growth-stage tech startups
Strat Sherman on The Climate Crisis, the Generation Gap, and Getting Off our Butts
Probably no single social development has been as striking as the global rise of alarm among the young about climate catastrophe. How do we respond?
From the Front Line of Modern Management
Description: Maynard Webb, has been CEO of LiveOps, COO at eBay, and chairman of Yahoo’s board. Now this Valley veteran has written Rebooting Work: Transforming How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship. He’ll join veteran corporate technologist Jeremy King to talk about how to grow and sustain a business now. The following transcript […]
Catherine Steiner-Adair on The Big Disconnect: Schools and Smartphones
Description: Widespread use of smartphones undermines empathy, attention and relationships in children, and undercuts education. What now? The following transcript has been lightly edited and condensed for ease of reading. Speaker: Catherine Steiner-Adair, Harvard Medical School Interviewer: Stratford Sherman, Accompli (Transcription by RA Fisher Ink) Sherman: Welcome, everybody. Catherine and I are here to talk about the impact […]
What is Authority in a Networked, Artificially Intelligent World?
Session Description: As algorithms and AI are seamlessly integrated into everything, who (or what) is making the decisions? Are Amazon, Facebook, and Google becoming the de facto authority? What does authority mean anymore? What will replace the old systems that signified authority? The full transcript is also available in PDF form here. Sherman: So for the tech […]
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Techonomy 19
The theme for Techonomy 2019 in Half Moon Bay, California was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate.” We are in a unique period when corporate responsibility and big-picture thinking is absolutely essential.
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Techonomy 18
Techonomy 2018 was a probing, wide-ranging conversation about the tech-inflected issues that affect business and our world. This year’s theme was Harnessing Tech for Responsible Growth, and as always we addressed many of the issues facing leaders today.
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Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
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Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
