Category Archives: Random Walk

100 Best Blogs for MBA Students

Kelly points me to a list of blogs for MBAs. There's a mixture of new ones and older ones in the list (looks like this blog just made it on the page at #100). I'll have to check out the … Continue reading

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Twitter Me This

Background: Management strategy consulting professional David Dalka, Florian Hollender, and other management consultants are using Twitter. Ford Harding, world-renowed author and expert on sales (e.g., for consultants and other professional services folks), also has two very recent posts on using … Continue reading

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Some Tips On Dressing As A Consultant

Florian Hollender at the Killer Consultant blog has some good Consulting 101 tips on how to shop for clothes when starting as a new consultant. I've never really commented on dress considerations publicly, but I'll add just one recommendation on … Continue reading

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What Role Does Brand Name Play In Terms of Past Experiences?

This post was triggered by a current MBA student at my alma mater. I really should get some recruiting dollars from my former employers. It’s amazing how many questions I get about my past, as a direct result of this … Continue reading

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Random Thoughts on Enron Movie

This weekend I had a chance to see HDNet Film’s movie/documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Great movie. Helps puts some perspective on the role of vision, morals, big business, and government. Now I want to read the … Continue reading

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Central Banker Heaven and the U.S. Economy

Last Friday I attended the Business Forecast Luncheon in Dallas, sponsored by the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Guest speakers were Dr. Robert Aliber, Professor of International Economics and Finance (Emeritus) at the University of Chicago and Dr. … Continue reading

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My Brief Notes On The Avian Flu

This past week I was researching some telecom reports, and I happened to run across an outlier in the corporate mix that caught my eye. It was a Gartner report, entitled "Prepare for Avian Influenza: Our Interview With the World … Continue reading

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Vintage Matters

1991 was not a great year for engineering graduates. During 1991, many engineering graduates were lucky to have any job offer in hand upon graduation. Things got better though as the years passed. 1999 was a great year for graduating … Continue reading

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Forget The Cluetrain, Return To Seminal Works Of Information Theory Of The 40s

Posts by Umair Haque, Fred Wilson, and Jeff Nolan are all talking about the looming attention crisis (see here & here) related to information overload and the blogosphere. Wilson captures Umair’s words: Herbert Simon said it in 1971, which is … Continue reading

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Musings On The Initial Federal Response To Hurricane Katrina (Operations and Leadership)

Caveat: not fully thought through but based on digesting information passively over one week since Katrina hit. I’m not sure that I’ve ever blogged about a public issue before, but the US response to Hurricane Katrina at the federal level … Continue reading

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