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I am so pleased and excited to welcome a friend and former colleague from Microsoft, Rodney Clark, Vice President of Microsoft’s Worldwide Internet of Things (IoT)* and Mixed Reality Sales team. Rodney is responsible for building Intelligent Systems and Mixed Reality capability through sales and go-to-market execution – from edge to cloud – with Microsoft partners and customers.
*The Internet of things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
In this episode, Rodney and I have an extensive and far-reaching discussion on a number of topics:
- His business at Microsoft and how his team is helping customers solve challenges related to COVID.
- The importance of partners and how they are trailblazing this technological transformation and embracing Partner to Partner motions.
- What makes a great partner?
- Commitment to the P&L
- A deep commitment to people
- Embracing technology
- Understanding your value.
- His career journey, lessons he learned from his father, and other role models.
- His personal reflections as an African American leader during this time, his commitment, and how he is channeling his energy.
After finishing the episode I was struck by how much I enjoyed recording this discussion with Rodney. He is a thoughtful leader who can uniquely make a complex topic like IOT understandable to the average listeners. What also came through loud and clear to me was his commitment; to his people, his customers, his partners, and his family.
Rodney is a strong leader and I so enjoyed learning from him and I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.
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LINKS & RESOURCES
- Find Rodney Clark on LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Email – rodneyc@microsoft.com
- Link to Microsoft IOT Page
- Satya’s Blog on Racial Injustice
- The transcript of our interview is available here.
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