Peggy Johnson Quotes
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Cyanogen has done an interesting job with their version of Android - the Cyanogenmod. And they're on 50-million-plus devices. And that's just another ecosystem that we wanted to tap into and to bring our Office apps to.
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Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.
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Culture used to be viewed as the 'touchy-feely' side of business, but that's no longer the case. If you don't have a defined culture behind you, then you aren't going to be effective at executing your strategy.
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When you dig in, two big titans clashing, what good is that? It's not good for either of us; it's not good for the industry.
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I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.
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We all have to think about the emerging markets.
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Do one thing well, and then build from there.
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At many companies, business development is treated as a sales tool for incremental growth, but I believe that business development can bend our growth curve in a big way. It should accelerate our ability to grow, helping us quickly close gaps or leap ahead of competitors.
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Acompli is just a great example of a fabulous app.
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As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.
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I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere along the way, they veer off of that.
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'Rather than fighting over a piece of the pie, can we grow the pie?' is really our model.
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I worked on anti-submarine warfare for surface ships.
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We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.
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It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.
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I had to find my own terms for success, and it wasn't anything like what I was told to do.
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We try not to look at everything through a competitive lens.
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Over the course of my career as an engineer-turned-tech evangelist, I've had the privilege of travelling the world and seeing the extraordinary impact of mobile on people and communities across a broad range of cultures and socio-economic strata. In many ways, mobile is a democratizing force. It empowers us. It inspires us. It extends our reach.
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There are more and more women entering into the workforce themselves. More and more of them are making more money.
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The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.
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I think our Acompli acquisition was an interesting one, which started with a partnership and looking at their mobile e-mail app on iOS and Android. And what I would like to highlight with that one is the speed that we actually turned that around and brought it out the door.
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Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.
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I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.
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Gaming provides us with some very good signals about consumers and what they're interested in.