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Join us for Twitter, Blogging and Presentation SKills Workshops in Oxford

June 16, 2010

After polling the staff and students and receiving an overwhelmingly positive response, the MBA Leadership Group and I are running the following workshops next week at Saïd Business School in Oxford. They’ll to be interactive. And fun I hope. I’m looking forward to it. If you’re in Oxford, join us.
1) Understanding Twitter (June 22, [...]

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15 Hip Hop Tracks for Tackling the World (1/3)

May 31, 2010

Music is fuel. I rely on hip hop a lot. It helps me recover, pump myself up, find drive and find meaning. Here’s 5 tracks that do that for me. 5 more tomorrow, and the final five the day after. Today? Context.
A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out (ft. Faith Evans)
This is a B Original. [...]

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Google’s Nexus One: Designed for Wear?

May 11, 2010

I’ve been rocking the Google Nexus One since January. I’m not easy on my gear, so I suspect I’m a good case to see how well it’s designed for wear and abuse. (Note: we’re not talking about the os, apps, functionality or broader open source philosophy here. I like all of those. Just the wear [...]

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Doing it Right: Good Examples of Good Tech Solutions

May 9, 2010

Jackie’s been wandering around SS Africa for nearly two years, working with different organizations. This has given her some insight into what is working and what isn’t in world of appropriate tech development (anyone with a better idea for this stale term?).
This week she posted a series on organizations that are doing a good job [...]

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Signaling Identity: Better a Surfer than an MBA?

May 4, 2010

I love jackets. I don’t actually have that many possessions, but I do have a disproportionate collection of technical jackets. So when I saw a friend’s dark blue softshell, I decided it was time for an SBS version and set up a class purchase. The spec was ‘OXFORD’ across the back. What came back was [...]

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30: A Birthday Rant

May 2, 2010

(Some profanity below.)
I think everyone has an optimal age. In North America, that age is often between 20 and 24. You don’t want to be older and you don’t want to be younger. It’s the age where you don’t think about your age. For me that was 23. Today I’m 30.
30 seems to be a [...]

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Take a Jump: Starting a Venture in the Bay

April 9, 2010

A few months ago we were putting in work on a concept for a potentially game-changing business in Oxford. I decided that it was time to do it for real, and booked a flight out to the Bay Area. I didn’t know if anyone would come with me, who I could meet with, where we [...]

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Social Intrapreneurship

March 28, 2010

5 years ago we started thinking about creating an Ambassador Program for EWB Vancouver, where we would help engaged engineers infuse issues of development into their workplaces. Part of the reason we never got it off the ground at that time was that I wasn’t sure where the tools were to do it, or even [...]

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Triggers of Somewhere Else

March 18, 2010

A few minutes ago I walked out of a crowded operations management review session, into the courtyard at SBS. It was raining lightly, with wind weaving through the trees and a rain fresh scent after days of sun. It was beautiful and calm. Immediately I was back on Vancouver Island, hiking in light rain, face [...]

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A Professional Does Not Show Off

February 16, 2010

A professional’s work has style; it is distinctively his own. But he doesn’t let his signature grandstand for him. His style serves the material. He does not impose it as a means of drawing attention to himself.
This doesn’t mean that the professional doesn’t throw down a 360 tomahawk jam from time to time, just to [...]

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