I don’t have too much to say these days as I continue to play in the Harvard Business School sandbox. I’m hoping to post more once I look away from this castle of sand I’m trying to build to impress summer internship recruiters. In the meantime, I wanted to highlight an aspect of daily life I’ve been appreciating lately:
If content is king then rhythm is its royal tailor. Take it from Toby:
Rhythm is a grand separator between equally insightful content pieces. Can you imagine this joke without Woody’s rhythm?
I suppose the point of my post is to say that even as we all scramble to add value, we should keep a bounce in our step.
ok, one more. You want rhythm? The Nicholos Brothers take the content of their acrobatics and bring a rhythm that would bring the house down in any era. Watch them take control at 1:30:
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I started at HBS in August and haven’t put in time to post here (obviously). I’ll change that once finals are over next week. Enjoy the poster.
“One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a**hole.”
- Larry Summers, Former President of Harvard University
This is definitely something to keep in mind in many settings, not just a college campus. At least by applying it to a campus you can point them out when they’re young.
Thank you Atin Agarwal for the Google+ post of this quote.
“most humble day of my life” YET he is not ultimately responsible for “this fiasco”.
Tell me, Murdoch, if the head of a major corporation is not responsible for the company’s major screw ups, what justifies the executive pay? Clearly to you taking responsibility and risk isn’t in the job description. Maybe it’s your long hours? Unbelievable.
Unfortunately the one-up-manship between companies to steal talent has led to pay so extravagant that we’ve forgotten what we’re actually paying them for. Take note shareholders, we’re just as responsible for not demanding change in our portfolio companies.
Take a look at the self portrait Albert Einstein wrote. It can be found in George Schreiber’s Portraits and Self Portraits.
I especially like the last line.
Of what is significant in one’s own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts. For the most part I do the thing which my own nature drives me to do. It is shameful to earn so much respect and love for it. Arrows of hate have been shot at me, too; but they never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world, with which I have no connection whatsoever.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
I made the leap a little over a year ago and decided to put my pencil to GMAT study guides and pen to blank paper. I had and still have some concerns about pursuing an MBA. The admissions process has been over for me for about 6 months and maximizing the benefits of the experience is in the front of my mind now.
Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School has been at work developing changes to update the relevance of HBS in the modern economy and to combat renewed skepticism. Here’s a couple Poets and Quants articles on his work thus far (don’t worry, they are skim-able):
I’ve been joking lately with friends about how I’m feeling old these days. Then I see these two links. I thought I’d share (since it’s been so long since I’ve written):
I have to admit, I’m a bit annoyed. This guy basically took the whole point of my blog and packaged it neatly in one speech at West Point. Thanks a lot.
Click the link. This speech is really worth reading.
