As executive director of the Sun Microsystems Foundation, one of the best things about my job is that I get to work with an absolutely incredible advisory board.
Sun execs on the advisory board of the Sun Foundation are:
David Harris
Joe Hartley
Karen Rohde
Ingrid Van Den Hoogen
They're all hot-shot execs around here.So naturally, any time one of them call me, my blood pressure goes up.
(just kidding.)
(not really.)
:-)
Here's what I love most... the way in which they actively invest in the success of the work that we're driving.
I'm in constant dialogue with most of these guys... I talk to most of them at least once a week, if not more. Five of them are my friends on Facebook.... I keep tabs on them; they keep tabs on me... I've always got stuff going on with them... .. bouncing ideas back and forth... you get the idea.
It's AWESOME.
So we have board meetings about every couple of months or so, but there's this ongoing dialogue that happens outside of those. That's where the real work gets done.
Today, David Harris called me on my cell phone.
David is Senior Vice President of Global Business Services here at Sun.
He's also president of CoreNet Global's board of directors. (in his spare time :-)
CoreNet Global is the world's leading professional association for
corporate real estate and workplace executives. More than
7,000 members manage over $1.2-trillion in real estate and workplace
assets in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America and North America.
And he's "in charge" over there for the next year. Call it his extra-curricular activity. Among many other boards and professional associations... you get the idea...
(They're all like that, you
know... the demands on all of their time is so great... yet they still
make time for me... and for the stuff we're trying to drive... )
Anyway, he just called me on my cell phone.
He had an idea.
(can't say. yet.)
I can tell you this: I think it's a really good idea.
I'm going to try to help flesh it out.
And that's all we'll say about that.
For now.
:-)
Mary