January 2011 - Fellow - Saltire Foundation Community

The man who thinks he can

I came across this poem at the weekend. It has been copied into my journal, next to Kipling's "If".
I smiled when I came to the bit about 'a fellow's will'.

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Published 31-Jan-2011 19:33 by David Toy

My global executive MBA internship literally took off the ground, on a flight to St Louis from Boston with Mark Bamforth, President & CEO of Gallus Biopharmaceuticals. Couldn’t have asked for a more exciting start than that! Gallus is a biologics...

Published 31-Jan-2011 17:40 by Madhu Nair (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Biotech, Boston, Business, externship, Key learning from Babson, babson college, Scotland, GlobalScot

A new Scottish start up

I am delighted to be leading up this new venture.... SuperEngage is now launching today with several football clubs in Scotland. The first month has been terrific and the next five I am sure will fly in. http://www.isuperfan.com/ As an entrepreneurial...

Published 31-Jan-2011 14:20 by Jim Duffy

Andy Murray – I salute you.

I am glad to be in Houston over the next week, because I know that the media reaction to Andy Murray losing to Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open will border on hysteria. I am so relieved that I will not turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper and be...

Published 30-Jan-2011 17:13 by Mark Simmers

Inspiration from home… It’s Fizzy… its Ginger… its Phenomenal!

Yes it is true! Being away from home, has made me think more about what we do best, the first thing that came to mind was our 'other' national drink – IRN-BRU (first one being whiskey of-course)! How exactly did it become so popular that...

Published 27-Jan-2011 15:52 by Amina Nabi (2010)

Filed under: Word-of-mouth, referral, irn-bru

Serendipity

I never thought I’d say this… but I think I’m falling for insurance. I remember the day I first came across insurance. It was a cold Monday morning when I arrived the doorsteps of Liberty Mutual. I was slightly jetlagged and I needed...

Published 26-Jan-2011 13:58 by Sandrine Sienche (2010)

Filed under: Saltire Experience, Boston, Liberty Mutual, externship, Babson, insurance

Uncomfortable is the new comfortable

It's the start of week 4 and time is flying by. I have met so many people here at IBM since I arrived, my notebook is filling up fast. It has been great to meet leaders who are at different stages of their careers and understand their career paths...

Published 24-Jan-2011 19:16 by Rebecca Ewing (2010)

Filed under: Leadership, IBM, mentor

How Big is Scotland?

Scotland's size compared.

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Published 23-Jan-2011 20:42 by David Toy

HOUSTON WE HAVE LIFT OFF

I have now begun to settle into life in Houston Texas, having had a lovely two week break at home with my family over Christmas. Houston is a vast sprawl of a city with a relatively small downtown of skyscrapers clustered in the flat landscape like a...

Published 18-Jan-2011 5:48 by Mark Simmers

Filed under: Technology, Houston

I am an IBMer

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I am now an IBMer, well at least for the next few months. My first day was a little daunting. IBM has a huge campus here in the ‘Triangle’ so the first challenge was finding where to park...

Published 16-Jan-2011 15:58 by Rebecca Ewing (2010)

Filed under: externship, IBM

The Big Blue- AC in NC!

I am now nearly 2 weeks into the externship at IBM global hardware here in Raleigh- pronounced R-aaaa-leigh, North Carolina. It's been fascinating so far to digest and comprehend the sheer scale and global coverage of this company. My team has people...

Published 14-Jan-2011 13:27 by Claire MacDonald (2010)

Slowing down is secretly gathering strength

Yawn. It's difficult being an intern and I want a really big whiteboard.

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Published 13-Jan-2011 22:25 by David Toy

Filed under: externship, Learning, Global, modeling

Land of Liberty… Mutual…

It has now been a week of settling into the grand ‘Ark’ that is Liberty Mutual, and understanding my project; that is focused on word-of-mouth marketing and referral opportunities. Through my research stage, I find the ‘day-dreamer’...

Published 11-Jan-2011 21:41 by Amina Nabi (2010)

Houston, we have two problems.

1 week in at Shaw Pipeline Services and all is well down in Houston –David and Mark and I arrived on Sunday and had a day to see a bit of the city and orientate ourselves. Houston is a vast city with a unique landscape of highways and high rises;...

Published 07-Jan-2011 17:14 by Joanne Hagerty (2010)

Filed under: Texas, Oil and Gas, Houston, New Product Launch, Rootin Tootin Boots

Welcome to 2010, eh, 2011.

So far, Texas is amazing. Back in Scotland over Christmas, I had forgotten how Americans like to do things 'big'. Houston has prompted a rapid rescaling of 'normal'. Three of us (Mark, Joanne and I) are based at Shaw Pipeline Systems....

Published 07-Jan-2011 15:14 by David Toy

Filed under: Texas, Culture, Oil and Gas, SPS

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