Debra Chrapaty: A Company Import. A Great Leader.

The Discussion

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  This was a really interesting interview.  It's good to hear that the MS VPs get along.
  
  The story of how Debra navigated her career to become a corporate VP is really worth listening to.
  
  My favorite bit is this:
  
  Jennifer:  What were you hired in as?  Director, GM, VP...?
  Debra:  Corporate VP.
               Ah, you're smiling ... how did I do that?
  laughter
  Jennifer:  Pray tell!
  Charles: Yeah ...
  more laughter
  Debra (serious):  Because I am one. 

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  Great Interview!
  
  Sending an e-mail out to everyone on your team each week is a great idea that I wish more executives and managers would  emulate.
  
  
  
  

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  After this interview, both Jennifer and I wanted to go work for Debra! What a great leader. I hope she rises through the ranks to become our first (dare I say it) CEO! Yeah.
  
  Rock on, Debra.
  C

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  Charles wrote:

  After this interview, both Jennifer and I wanted to go work for Debra! What a great leader. I hope she rises through the ranks to become our first (dare I say it) CEO! Yeah.
  
  Rock on, Debra.
  C

  
  
  Although playing fill-in-the-missing-word is fun, I think I'll just assume you missed out a "woman" somewhere in there.
  
  Although I'm sure there are alternatives which would fit just as well.
  
  Or is MS operating rudderless at the moment
  

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  Really enjoyed this interview.  Especially the section when you all talked about Datacenters and measuring them in megawatts instead of square feet.
  I wish there was more information on the MS datacenters to help counter the whole Google rocks!!!! and their datacenter is teh b0mb!!!!
  
  Very very smart woman...

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  Very inspiring interview. She sounds very approachable and truly cares about her people.

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  Is Debra still w/ MS? Because the video seems to have been pulled.