May 27, 2005
LEAD
Today was my first day of presenting for spring LEAD with a great group of Weekend and Evening MBA students here at Chicago GSB. We covered the Audience Captivation Training module - hopefully with some success! :) Many long hours, meetings, and weeks have gone into preparation so it felt great to present.
Next week it's Myers Briggs...
This Fall we'll be running through the same material with first years of the class of 2007!
Other Jacob Blog and Photo Gallery
Another great college friend, Jacob, has finally taken some time away from work to set up his blog. Check out Line Noise at Packetshard.com. His photo gallery has some great pictures! Also updated links on side bar...
May 26, 2005
Office 12
First entry of a new category...
Information out today about Office 12 and the timeline around beta and release. Interesting commentary about SOX, related to Office documents.
May 23, 2005
Aslan Roars
One great benefit of seeing Star Wars in the theater is that many great previews are associated with it, including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! Looks like it has the potential to be a great movie! Narnia Web fansite has great material. Also, very cool opening sequence at the official Disney site.
More info on the The Chronicles.
And more info on C.S. Lewis and his other books.
Script Hypocrisy
This past weekend we saw Star Wars with some friends. Fun movie overall - particularly in additional depth the characters seemed to have. One line that caught my ear was almost comical in its lack of logical structure.
Spoiler
At one point, Obi-Wan is fighting Anakin; Anakin makes some statement about Jedi's or the Force or something...Obi-Wan replies with "Only the Dark Sith speak in absolutes." Hehe...unfortunately Obi-Wan forgot to use less absolute language when passing judgment on Anakin.
May 22, 2005
Updated Blogs...
Thanks to Le Voyageur for the email...check out the mba peregrinations blog for some great travel posts!
May 17, 2005
Commercializing Innovation
Great class. Lots of work. Recommend highly.
Lots of interesting cases, all in some way personally connected to Professor Meadow - so the 'inside' scoop adds a fun dimension to the material.
May 12, 2005
Puerto Rico
I'm still catching up from the weekend in Puerto Rico. A few other 2005 LEAD facilitators and I headed down this past Saturday thanks to one of my squad members island of origin. :) We had a great time, wonderful food, late nights, beach visits, and playing in the waves. Although I did get beat up pretty bad by one wave because I'm not the best on the boogey board!
Here is a shot of our Sunday beach - Flamenco Beach, Culebra - thanks to Tropical Properties for the picture.
May 03, 2005
CI Research
While doing some research for Commercializing Innovation my team found this interesting report (PowerPoint) from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - "In 2001, more young people declared bankruptcy than graduated from college."