S7 Nick Donofrio - If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Hello listeners! Today have Nick Donorio on the show today. Nick Donorio is a second generation American. His grandparents were poor, Italian immigrants - and his family was hard working, focused on value creation. They were poor, but never thought of themselves as poor - they always had food to eat, and always sat down at the table for dinner at night. Nick spent 44 years of his life at IBM, as an electrical engineer and then as a technology leader. In 2008, he "graduated" from IBM, and now holds board seats for dozens of companies. Nick is the co-author of the book "If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes". The book is a powerful testimony to our ability as human beings to drive transformation - not just within tech, but across generations. With heart and candor, Nick explains how he led IBM's global technical team to embrace market centric, focus redefining innovation and sparking worldwide collaboration. Get the book on Amazon, or learn more at nickdonofrio.com. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello listeners. Today I have Nick DeNafrio on the show. Nick is a second generation American.
0:07.0	Nick spent 44 years of his life at IBM as an electrical engineer and then as a technology leader.
0:12.2	In 2008, he graduated from IBM and now holds board seats for dozens of companies.
0:17.9	Nick is the co-author of the book, If Nothing Changes, Nothing Changes.
0:22.7	The book is a powerful testimony to our ability as human beings to drive transformation,
0:27.3	not just within tech, but across generations.
0:29.8	With heart and candor, Nick explains how he led IBM's global technical team
0:33.8	to embrace market-centric, focus-re redefining innovation and sparking worldwide collaboration.
0:39.9	Get the book on Amazon or learn more at nick Donofrio book.com.
0:45.3	Well, Nick, now that people know a little bit more about you, tell me what this book is all
0:49.8	about. Give me an overview about what this book is all about.
0:57.0	People should self-document. That's what this book is all about. People should self-document. That's what this book is all about.
0:59.0	It's about me documenting my life before somebody else decides that they want to tell the story,
1:05.0	and they want to tell it their way. I want to tell it my way.
1:08.0	It's terribly important to not forget where you come, where you came from,
1:13.6	how you got there, what lessons you've learned. And that was driving me. Took me six years working
1:20.3	with Mike DeMarco to put this book together. We made it a little harder by bringing 37 other people
1:26.3	into the book. It became obvious to me as I started
1:29.4	the process that I needed to reconcile, the inside IBM, the before IBM, and the outside IBM
1:37.1	parts of my life. And at one time, no, I was thinking of writing two books. But I got frustrated,
1:43.1	told Mike, we were bringing them together,
1:45.2	and gave him the principles of operation for the book. This is the way it's going to be.
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