October 2010 - Fellow - Saltire Foundation Community

Networking on campus

Our one week holiday has flown by so quickly. Hopefully we are all fully re-charged to embrace the second half of our academic term here at Babson. During the week long break, I took the opportunity to attend some of the peer-to-peer events on campus...

Published 31-Oct-2010 21:31 by Madhu Nair (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Social Skills, Opportunities, innovation, entrepreneurship, Networking, ideas, Creativity, Babson

The Gilded Age- Fall 2010 opportunities a plenty

Well we're about to restart an intense close to our time at Babson, we have networking, presentations and the usual case load to embrace in the following 6 weeks. The landscape is changing for both the Fellows and the countryside around us, the golden...

Published 29-Oct-2010 0:35 by Claire MacDonald (2010)

The power of coffee and replicating success....

In the past few weeks we have been exposed to a mix of start ups, global companies, venture capitalists, angel investors and numerous examples of brands, technologies and developments that have emerged from the Northeastern seaboard. Despite this influx...

Published 18-Oct-2010 5:39 by Joanne Hagerty (2010)

Filed under: innovation, Networking, Scotland, mass challenge, business ecosystems, Babsonoston

It's international, stupid.

Hello. Today I am in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. Does that matter?

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Published 17-Oct-2010 20:06 by David Toy

Our new compass

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Well time is flying by yet we continue to be enriched by our ongoing learning experiences! I would like to focus on 4 key themes which are centred on our new global world. We need a compass to navigate our...

Published 14-Oct-2010 0:24 by Claire MacDonald (2010)

Managing 'Stuff"

I'm in Toronto this week and get to stay at some posh hotels. I always enjoy the North Americam media and news shows on cable tv. Two hit me as relevant to what I learned at Babson and what the current Fellows are obviously experiencing. The first...

Published 13-Oct-2010 14:09 by Jim Duffy

Pioneers of the World?

On Monday we had an amazing and inspiring day. It started with a Yoga class, continued with reading poetry and other prose in the College Chapel at Babson, and concluded with a wonderful Japanese Film – Shall We Dance. One poem I discovered that...

Published 13-Oct-2010 5:34 by Mark Simmers

Filed under: Opportunities, Leadership, entrepreneurship, Learning

Celebrate Success and Celebrate Failure

In my opinion this is quite a difficult concept for a Scot to accept and embrace. I think our innate modesty leads us to feel slightly embarrassed by success both for ourselves and for others, and our pride and the social stigma attached to it leads us...

Published 13-Oct-2010 4:58 by Mark Simmers

Filed under: success, Culture, Learning, Global

gems of wisdom....

By plugging through case study upon case study, each of which are completely inspirational in there own right, i'v learnt to discover a new way of traffic-ing information into my brain without jamming the message - one of the many learnings through...

Published 12-Oct-2010 1:46 by Amina Nabi (2010)

The most profitable businesses are not the most profit orientated.

I can heartily recommend John Kay's book, 'Obliquity'. The central point of his text is to explain how our goals are best achieved indirectly. This can have a significant impact on the way policy makers, entrepreneurs and individuals go about...

Published 12-Oct-2010 1:20 by STEVE TIGAR (2010)

Failure and Success

I have a natural aversion to numbers so this week of number crunching, balance sheets, cash flow cycles and self funding rates of growth had me worried. My previous encounters with these little monsters made me want to throw in the towel before the week...

Published 08-Oct-2010 1:54 by Rebecca Ewing (2010)

Changing your Viewpoint

Some of the work I've been doing over the past few weeks caused me to reflect on how much my viewpoint has changed since participating in the Fellowship - or to use Jim's term how I view thing through a different lens . I thought I'd share...

Published 06-Oct-2010 11:41 by Ian Stevenson

‘If you build it, they will come’

I used to believe thinking outside the box was someone else’s job. ‘Abstract thinking’ was just not my forte, not from a business perspective anyway. My role was to listen to other people’s clever ideas, identify the gaps and opportunities...

Published 06-Oct-2010 0:38 by Sandrine Sienche (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, saltire fellowship, babson college

A Different Lens

Spending time at Babson with the faculty and the other Fellows definitely made me think differently. I recall Dr Dhebar challenging us to look at things through a different lens. Now, when I get caught up in margin reports, IRR's and general management...

Published 04-Oct-2010 12:45 by Jim Duffy

Making a Profit and a Difference ... on a Global Scale

Last week we got to learn about an early stage start-up whose business is based on the 1-for-1 model. In this case, for every nutrition bar sold, a malnourished child in a third world nation or developing country will receive a nutrition pack. The aspiration...

Published 04-Oct-2010 6:09 by Madhu Nair (2010)

Filed under: Opportunities, entrepreneurship, ideas, Social ROI, Global

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