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How to Ensmarten Yourself on the Daily in 2.5 Steps

July 9, 2010

I’ve been slipping this into conversations for months now, but really need to say it here: reading a daily batch of blog posts is a great way to increase your knowledge in a given area. In 2.5 steps:
1) Use an RSS reader (learn about RSS here in a quick video) to collect all blog updates [...]

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6 Laws of Assignments

June 21, 2010

The 24 hours of assignment reckoning continues. Two term papers have just been handed in to the Exam Schools. Four papers are due to be uploaded within 5 hours, and another formal paper is to hended in within exactly 24 hours. In the midst of this, I’ll be attempting to enjoy a boat cruise (4 [...]

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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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Videos Wanted on Inspiration, Storytelling, Power and Networks!

May 21, 2010

Hi folks,
In pulling together content for Intrapreneurship Week here at SBS, I’m after compelling and concise videos/talks that speak to any of the areas below:
- Understanding our personal motivations, passions and inspirations
- Communicating this through vision, storytelling and other mechanisms
- Understanding power, and applying it through hard and soft means
- Creating networks and building coalitions
I’ll [...]

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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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Shot of the Day: Maxed Out

March 24, 2010

EP Team member and all around rock star Phil hits a wall last week. Not posed.
oxford, sbs
       

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Anatomy of Subfusc

March 23, 2010

Another term, another set of final exams. One of the oddities of Oxford is that, like students for hundreds of years before us, we must wear subfusc during all exams. Like 244 little penguins. I felt it would be good to share exactly what that means. Andrew generously volunteered to model it after today’s exam.

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