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38. Does your team secretly disagree with you? Are you failing to gain your team’s buy-in?

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Todd Allen Lifelong tinkerer, pushing new technology forward with an eye toward the possible. Product Management and Strategy at the Advanced Innovation Center at Lenovo.

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0:00.0

All right, everybody, welcome back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:14.5

Today we have Todd Allen on the show, Vice President of Information Technology at Buckingham

0:20.1

Companies. Todd, welcome to the show, man.

0:23.8

Good morning, Phil. Thank you. Yeah. So, hey, we're just going to start this off just because

0:29.0

I really love reminiscing about old technology. So, and, you know, unless I've got a millennial

0:36.9

on that's going to tell me his first computer was, you know, XP and his first video game system was a Nintendo 64, which is coming up and is funny and almost laughable.

0:46.3

What was your first computer, man?

0:49.5

Well, mine was, my dad had bought one.

0:53.2

This was sometime in the, I think, kind of the mid-80s, early 80s.

0:58.2

He had bought a behemoth, IBM knockoff that took, you know, kind of half his desk up at this old Amber monitor that sat on top of it.

1:08.2

He bought it for a side business he was building and, you know, ran like Lotus Notes on it.

1:13.7

It's all DOS prompts.

1:15.4

Yeah, yeah.

1:15.7

I ended up finding a flight simulator for it and used to play it quite a bit.

1:21.0

So that, and if I remember correctly, it was it was Chuck Yeager, flight simulator, which I actually had to Google Chuck Yeager the other day,

1:28.6

so I apologize for not knowing.

1:30.6

That's disrespectful to you.

1:32.0

Because you fly too, right?

1:33.6

Don't you fly?

1:35.1

I don't fly as much as I used to, but it kind of sparked a love of flying that I later

1:40.1

revisited when I was in my, like 1999.

1:43.9

So, you know, a young family and was out

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