March 2018

The Process

Trust the process, not the accomplishment

Louis Camassa recently authored an insightful post on LinkedIn, which can be found here.  One line that resonated with me was his closing sentiment: “The day you think you’ve reach[ed] the top, and stop striving, is the day you’ll fall to the bottom.” People achieve because of the processes they put in place to realize […]

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An MBA is not academically valuable …

A friend of mine recently forwarded me this article, in which the author argues that a business school’s academic rigor is either mediocre or subpar when compared to other academic programs. As I complete my graduate studies in business school, I totally agree that other academic programs have superior academics, when compared to business school.  […]

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Know Your Audience

Know your audience

In all situations, your self-awareness transitions into situational awareness, and autoregulation, when you recognize and adapt to your respective audience. Your audience changes based on your role, what you’re doing in that role, and the composition of the audience itself.

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Mark Ross

A picture is worth a thousand words

A friend of mine, Mark Ross, created the painting above.  With this painting as a reference, he reached out to his audience and wanted to know what the painting meant to each member of his audience. The great thing about art is that it means something different to each viewer of the artwork in observation.  […]

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Excellence Medicrity

Mediocre employees can make great managers … real world examples!

In my most recent blog post, which you can find here, I discussed the fact that the best employees do not necessarily make the best managers. And that this fact is perfectly okay. I also claimed that aptitude, fit, and personal alignment were crucial for any position or function, including management.

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