Doing the Tough Things First | Ray Zinn
About Ray Zinn
Ray Zinn is a co-founder of the Company Micrel and has been its President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of its Board of Directors since the Company’s inception in 1978. As our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Zinn gives the Board of Directors insight and in-depth knowledge of the semiconductor industry and Micrel’s specific operations and strategies. He also provides leadership skills and extensive knowledge of semiconductor technology and Micrel’s business environment, which he has gained through his long career with Micrel and in the semiconductor industry. Prior to co-founding the Company, Mr. Zinn held various management and manufacturing executive positions in the semiconductor industry at Electromask TRE, Electronic Arrays, Inc., Teledyne, Inc., Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation and Nortek, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Management from Brigham Young University and an M.S. in Business Administration from San Jose State University.
Interview Transcript:
Ray Zinn
Because that’s how you get most efficient efficiency out of your day. If you focus on getting rid of the things you don’t want to do, I call it loving the things you hate. If you get rid of those, look how much your how fast your rest of your days gonna go, because you’ll have gotten rid of all those difficult things that bug you. Because I’ll tell you, if you have a problem that you don’t want to deal with, you’re going to be thinking about that problem all day long. And it’s going to cause you to lose efficiency and effectiveness, you won’t focus as well. So what I did every morning was I thought, well, what are the things I don’t want to do today? And those are the things I did first, I get up at 530 Every morning that gets written in Greg Miller’s book. essentialism is he talks about me he says, I’m the quintessential discipline, disciplinarian in the sense that we’re that, that, you know, I do what I don’t want to do, and I get them done well, and so that’s what focusing on doing the tough things first.
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Ray Zinn is a co-founder of the Company Micrel and has been its President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of its Board of Directors since the Company’s inception in 1978. As our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Zinn gives the Board of Directors insight and in-depth knowledge of the semiconductor industry and Micrel’s specific operations and strategies. He also provides leadership skills and extensive knowledge of semiconductor technology and Micrel’s business environment, which he has gained through his long career with Micrel and in the semiconductor industry. Prior to co-founding the Company, Mr. Zinn held various management and manufacturing executive positions in the semiconductor industry at Electromask TRE, Electronic Arrays, Inc., Teledyne, Inc., Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation and Nortek, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Management from Brigham Young University and an M.S. in Business Administration from San Jose State University.
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