The Careerist: Mentors Are Real, Not Mythological
Q: I just landed my first professional job, and I love my work and colleagues. Now that I’ve settled in, I want to set a career path and goals, but feel I could really use a mentor to help me…
Leadership
Harry Weinberg - Not Your Average Billionaire
Harry Weinberg amassed a fortune in local real estate and was renowned for being a financially savvy guy, who cajoled and exasperated the top executives of companies he invested in. However, what most surprised Kit Smith, who covered him for…
Talk Story: Cindy Adams
Two years after taking the helm at AUW, Adams’ top priorities are greater transparency, enhanced metrics, and deeper relationships with the state and other nonprofits. Q: The traditional separation between businesses and nonprofits has been changing. A: There has been…
5 Steps: Assessing Your Leadership
The end of 2016 is a great time to take stock in your leadership strengths and weaknesses, so you can develop a roadmap to thrive in 2017. Craig Chong, president and founder of Fresh Leadership, a local executive coaching firm,…
Merging Visions Roundtable - Podcast
A multigenerational panel discusses the value of Millennials, innovation, sharing power and responsibility, and how to solve the “real wicked problems” Hawaii faces. Mahalo to our Merging Visions partners for helping make this conversation possible: Cades Schutte LLP, Hawaiian Telcom…
Talk Story: Rick Ching
With his recent promotion to president of one of Hawaii’s biggest locally owned businesses (No. 8 on the 2016 Hawaii Business Top 250), Ching is helping oversee Servco’s dramatic overseas expansion. We ask him about the challenges of operating in…
You Have to Split Yourself
➨ When you’re the CEO, just about everything lands on your desk. That’s true in small and big businesses. CEOs are hand-holders, problem solvers, cheerleaders, admonishers, risk-takers and workaholics. They deal with financial complexity, human drama and enough email to…
The Science of Success - The Success of Science
On nights with a full moon, scientists and engineers from Oceanit gather at Duke’s statue on Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki, colorful glow sticks fastened around their necks. Toting surfboards, they head for the water’s edge and plunge into the silvery…
Talk Story: Connie Lau, President & CEO, Hawaiian Electric Industries
With the collapse of the NextEra merger, HEI’s Lau remains Hawaii’s most powerful and highest-paid woman executive. We talk about the status of women in the C-Suite, and what it takes for them to get there. Q: With the retirement…
