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Wisdom

'I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand'

I've tried to articulate both the depth and breadth of my discovery's since landing here in Shenzhen seven weeks ago, and I hope my talk of the people, the places and my escapades has gone someway to evoking imagination as well as filling in the gaps. I spent 4 long years staring at the quote;...

Posted to Undergraduates by Robyn Hamilton on 26-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Culture, IBM, China, Adventure, Wisdom, Discovery, Shenzhen 2012
Sacrebleu! Its week two!

Blog three already!? Time flies...My last blog was written not long after my arrival in Toulouse and to be quite honest I wasnt really liking it at the start. Being in a foreign country, on my own and with no little knowledge of what I was getting myself into I wasn't my usual self. Getting to the...

Posted to Undergraduates by Adam Taylor on 19-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Culture, Toulouse, Altran
Luxembourg, here I come and begin my life changing experience…

Two days to go and I will be sitting in the headquarters in Luxembourg working for Amazon on challenging projects. I will become part of the Transportation Department where I hope to fully contribute and be part of something important that will have impact for the future. However, now I shall introduce...

Posted to Undergraduates by Bartlomiej Wojcik on 09-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Culture, Amazon, Luxembourg
Entrepreneurship IS GO

This blog from Makur is simply stunning....Any Saltire Supporter, Fellow or Scholar should read...!! http://www.entrepreneurial-spark.com/chiclet-blog/2012/3/16/entreprenuership-is-go.aspx

Posted to Fellow by Jim Duffy on 17-Mar-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Business, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Networking, success, improve, Economic Development, Competitive Scotland, teamwork, Social ROI, Culture, Creativity, Performance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Small Businesses, start-up, startups
On being an IBM'er and the road less travelled.

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Cross Cultural Communication. It's a phrase a lot of people are familiar with. It's thrown around board rooms and training seminars all over the world,...

Posted to Undergraduates by Emily Gray on 25-Aug-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Culture, IBM, China, communication, Shanghai, Emily Gray, Global Scot., Graduate Employment, Attitude
Culture : Born or bred.

As we work on our NPD strategy one of the recurring questions has been whether we build it around the existing culture at our externship A company or aim to modify certain ingrained practices and ways of doing things, in 3 months and working in a consultative mode this has it’s challenges but it...

Posted to Fellow by Joanne Hagerty (2010) on 21-Feb-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Culture, organisational behaviour
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. SPS provide weld inspection for oil and gas pipelines...

Posted to Fellow by David Toy on 07-Jan-2011
Filed under: Filed under: Texas, Culture, Oil and Gas, SPS
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 to avoid failure at all costs and to hide from it...

Posted to Fellow by Mark Simmers on 13-Oct-2010
Filed under: Filed under: success, Culture, Learning, Global
By Morning Light, Muse and a BIG Cup of Coffee

So it's 6:50 am, I've been up since 5:20, and right now I'm on a train to Switzerland to see the sights of Zurich. Knights of Cydonia is playing loudly enough to wake the dead and caffeine is being fed to me through an intravenous drip. Well ok, it's not, but it should be! Patent on the...

Posted to Undergraduates by Iain Morrison on 31-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Saltire Foundation, Culture, week 6, Fresenius, Germany, Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Challenge, Exploration
The start of the winding down period... Week 7.

Its crazy but I still can't believe there is only one full week of my Liberty Mutual Group Benefits internship left. It is a sad thought that I will have to leave next friday; I will greatly miss my new friends and the lively City of Boston. I have truely enjoyed my summer here, there has been so...

Posted to Undergraduates by Lynn Aitchison on 25-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: internship, Boston, Culture, business development, Marketing, America, communication, week 7, Business., liberty Mutual. marketing, cambridge, Liberty Mutual. Boston, contribution, Boston. Liberty Mutual. Collaboration. Commerical Marketing., Challenge, Market
Scottish - It's The New Irish

Explanations about the title will follow but let's start with the important bit. Life in Daimlerstrasse 15 (our R&D department) has been business as usual - meaning there is no routine or pattern to follow except meal times! Every day brings different challenges and experiences that I've...

Posted to Undergraduates by Iain Morrison on 19-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Saltire Foundation, Culture, week 5, Fresenius, Germany, Adventure, Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Luck
Please excuse the delay...

My apologies to the Saltire team and to the other interns who found time in their busy schedules to blog over the last two weeks! I can only say that I have been busy having a fantastic experience within DHL and Tokyo in general, and that I promise to keep on top of the blog from now on! To make up for...

Posted to Undergraduates by Rachel Lippett on 09-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Culture, Tokyo, Japan, business development, Heriot Watt, DHL Supply Chain, Manufacturing, fireworks, Scottish Development International
Half way through week two already!!!!!

Its completely unbelievable that I am now half way through my second week already. The time is going too fast... This week has been great; I recieved my project list on Monday which lists 5 projects in different areas of the department which is brilliant. Liberty Mutual is veryu accomodating in the sense...

Posted to Undergraduates by Lynn Aitchison on 21-Jul-2010
Filed under: Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Boston, Human Resource, Culture, week 2, business development, Marketing, Scottish, Scots, Project, cambridge, Liberty Mutual
Location, Location, Location...

I am now finishing my 6th week out in Houston and my second working in management Services. This second project is heavily based on Microsoft SharePoint software. Very simply the intranet systems that Wood Group has been using, is no-longer fit for purpose and is being migrated across to a new SharePoint...

Posted to Undergraduates by Robert Steele on 21-Aug-2009
Filed under: Filed under: opportunity, Culture, Houston, legislation, business development, Pride, America, Awareness, Advice, growth, Location
Keep your eye on the ball

A lesson in life and business driven home, in the most unlikely of places... Myself, and the other 4 Wood Group Interns spent a fantastic evening being entertained by the Houston Astros and the Milwaukee Brewers in their MLB game (that's Baseball for those of us not quite in the know.... Sarah) Throughout...

Posted to Undergraduates by Robert Steele on 12-Aug-2009
Filed under: Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Culture, Houston, Eye-On-The-Ball, Awareness

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