December 2010 - Fellow - Saltire Foundation Community

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I am really looking forward to 2011... The 2010 Fellows will graduate and from meeting some of them last week - I can feel their enthusiasm and know they will dazzle.... The Foundation and the Fellowship are beginning to gather some traction within the...

Published 27-Dec-2010 17:24 by Jim Duffy

Intentionality- HEAD NORTH

Well I will not add to Mark's accurate description of quite frankly "hell" to end our wonderful Babson journey....however I have been thinking that there must lie some entrepreneurial solutions to the total chaos which we were subsumed by...

Published 21-Dec-2010 15:42 by Claire MacDonald (2010)

THE ENTREPRENEUR’S JOURNEY HOME

I sit here on the Virgin train pulling out of Preston station late at night – I have now been travelling for 25 hours trying to get from my “home” for 3 months in Waltham, Massachusetts to Gartocharn, by Loch Lomond Scotland. This has...

Published 18-Dec-2010 23:16 by Mark Simmers

Amo's Ark

I am sitting at the airport lounge waiting for my flight, and thought to take a minute (well I do have 6 hours, due to flight changes) to reflect and just absorb the atmosphere around me. I see many people, some returning, some departing and some connecting...

Published 18-Dec-2010 19:43 by Amina Nabi (2010)

Thanksgiving.... dinners.... friends... families....

Thanksgiving - a harvest festival celebrated in the USA and Canada, traditionally associated with giving thanks to God for the harvest and expressing gratitude. For the Saltire 10 and some of our nearest and dearest, this was certainly a day to be grateful...

Published 18-Dec-2010 18:13 by Amina Nabi (2010)

A tough sell

Today, I flexed my sales muscles. My flight from Boston into London was late, I missed the connecting flight to GLasgow and the snow in London has caused travel chaos. My first attempt to get a seat on another flight to anywhere in Scotland didn't...

Published 18-Dec-2010 12:40 by Rebecca Ewing (2010)

Happy Holidays

As the winter sun sets on our 3 month period in Boston I would like to take this opportunity to say a massive thanks to all of the Saltire Network for making three of the most intellectually stimulating and though provoking months of my life possible...

Published 16-Dec-2010 2:20 by Joanne Hagerty (2010)

Action vs Inaction

It's been a busy few weeks since my last blog. We have been having 'last classes' with most of our professors which has been both sad and exciting. I have gained so much perspective on business issues since I have been at Babson. I am sad...

Published 15-Dec-2010 3:17 by Rebecca Ewing (2010)

Filed under: externship, babson college, Supply Chain, IBM

Pace Pace Pace LEAD! Sales and communication....

As our time is drawing to a chilly close at Babson, I would like to share some key lessons we have receievcd in the last few weeks of our wonderful experience at Babson. Our Professor Tim Markin and his able sidekick Manny have been giving us many lessons...

Published 14-Dec-2010 22:07 by Claire MacDonald (2010)

Radio killed the radio stars

On Friday our professor Anirudh took us through the story of radio from the first dots and dashes transmitted across the Atlantic by Gugliermo Marconi to the emergence of AM and FM networks and the refinement, mass commercialisation and realisation of...

Published 12-Dec-2010 19:34 by Joanne Hagerty (2010)

Marketing Messages

Some of my time at the moment is spent working out what messages companies I work with should be getting out to their customers and potential customers, and how to get them there. One problem I frequently encounter is the assumption that the intended...

Published 11-Dec-2010 13:32 by Ian Stevenson

Social Entrepreneurship: The not for loss concept

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ‘Do good to do good’ is the slogan of U.S based ‘Two Degrees’, a one-for-one food company that donates a nutrition pack to a hungry child for each product...

Published 10-Dec-2010 2:14 by Sandrine Sienche (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, babson college

The Fellowship of Saltire

Just before our Thanksgiving break we embarked on a very special, transformative voyage - a leadership journey. A journey of self-reflection, of finding inner peace, of achieving that moment of clarity. A journey that led the fellows to trundle down their...

Published 07-Dec-2010 5:20 by Mirza Fahd Arshed Baig (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Fellowship, Network

Hans Rosling: 200 Countries, 200 years, 4mins.

An important part of the Saltire Fellowship is getting an understanding of 'Global'. Here is one resource to help 'Global' understanding: Hans Rosling. Rosling is an expert on international health and development. Google him. Watch the...

Published 05-Dec-2010 18:35 by David Toy

Moving On...

What is great about having the entrepreneurial bug - is having the capacity to make big changes in your life. Mind you it does scare the family.... Having completed a great year with ShawCor involved in recruitment, business development, acquisition and...

Published 04-Dec-2010 9:36 by Jim Duffy

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