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Darrius Jones , Executive Vice President , Chief Strategy Officer and Interim Chief Marketing Officer , Poly
wWhat would you describe as your most What memorable achievement ?
On a personal level , nothing compares to being parent to two amazing children – I am truly blessed . Professionally , my most memorable achievement is representing Poly at our London event on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing . There , we celebrated not only the groundbreaking lunar landing anniversary , but also the 50-year milestone for the Plantronics headset that Neil Armstrong was using when he said the famous words , ‘ One small step for [ a ] man ...’. We have always had an ethos of trying to make the impossible possible and the event gave us the opportunity to showcase our impressive heritage in tech-firsts .
What first made you have a career in technology ?
It runs in the family , so maybe I didn ’ t have much of a choice ! My grandfather was one of the first people to work on radar in the 1940s and my mother was an expert in data processing in the 1980s , which was fairly unusual at the time . When I was young , my parents purchased a Commodore64 for me – a console where you had to manually enter the code for your games as they didn ’ t load automatically . Once I got to grips with that , the rest was history .
style of management philosophy do you employ with your current position ?
In management , it is very important to strike the right balance . I ’ m very focused on building high performance teams , but you can only do that by enabling individual team members to be their best . I genuinely believe that everyone , at every level , has an opportunity to make an impact at all levels of an organisation . We all do dishes , right ?
What do you think has emerged as the technology trend of 2020 , and why ?
The biggest trend of 2020 , without any doubt , has been the rapid acceleration of unified communications and cloud-based video – remote
I genuinely believe that everyone , at every level , has an opportunity to make an impact at all levels of an organisation . We all do dishes , right ?
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