Speaker: Terry Shaftel
Meeting Date: Thursday, November 5, 2015
Time: 6:00 pm Networking; 6:30 pm Management Forum/Guided Networking; 7:00 pm sandwich dinner; 7:30 pm Presentation

Location: AMD Commons Building / AMD Campus, Sunnyvale
Summary:
Management Forum / Guided Networking: Bring Your Management Challenge; Arrive by 6:30 PM to join this exciting Management Forum. Following informal networking is a guided discussion typically related to the topic of the evening’s after dinner talk, or of general Technology Management interest.
Light Dinner: This month we’re continuing with our light dinner format — typically sandwiches, salad, drinks, and cookie or similar light dinner.

Presentation: OMG! We’re Out of control! And That’s a Good Thing 
In spite of the thousands of books that can be found on the topic of management, command-and-control top-down management is by far the most prevalent management structure.
What if there was a better way that eliminated much of the control and replaced it with a common shared outcome.    What if that shared outcome was so strongly held by everyone that regardless of job function, no one would ever let anyone else fail?
What would that mean to your organization?
This talk introduces the Aida Compass Framework, a systemic, low-overhead approach to getting stuff done.

Bio: Terry grew up professionally in and with Silicon Valley. Starting as a schematics draftsman with a small (at the time) company called Intel, he later grew through the ranks at several big companies and several startups, eventually becoming a Senior VP of Program Management. Those companies included semiconductor, robotics, flat panel, and interactive cloud TV, with responsibilities in both software and hardware.
The majority of Terry’s career involved working with customers on the definition of new initiatives and shepherding R&D programs through to completion. His roles included both line and program management, internal and customer facing.
Early on, Terry noticed that regardless of the culture, team composition, tools used, desire, and size of companies, or who was leading them, most initiatives fail to produce the desired results or at best take way too long. Why is it that the same team can produce far different results, even though all the other above-mentioned conditions are essentially the same? This question led to a decade-long investigation and a track record of producing extraordinary results for high-risk projects under difficult conditions and wowing customers.
The investigation and the lessons learned culminated in a systemic, low-overhead, and scalable framework whose working name is Aida Compass.
With the wide variety and depth of experience, Terry now consults and mentors so he can share his professional wisdom and the Aida Framework with others.
Along the way he picked up a BS in Industrial Technology at San Jose State University and did course work at Santa Clara University School of Business, both of which are part of the fabric of Silicon Valley.