October 2010
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unintended confusion: "social"
Studying social entrepreneurship in business school sometimes led to confusion - people unfamiliar with the term often thought it meant something about entrepreneurs that were cooperative rather than competitive.
Working up our mission statement and “what is social enterprise?” text for the Social Enterprise Network of the Triangle (SENT) website brought in more complexity as there...
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“we have a fiduciary duty to deliver them good returns
i do not believe we...”
– @fredwilson in the comments on this AVC post “Does Price Matter?”
So many on Wall Street and in companies are looking at maximizing shareholder value and/or returns in the short term and sacrificing the long term. This is how we end up with financial scandals - misaligned incentives...
“Over the past six years, McKinsey has developed a map of capabilities we call...”
– An interesting study from the McKinsey Quarterly - and not what you’d expect from a traditional corporate consulting atmosphere. Worth clicking through for the entire piece - I’ve always found the free registration they require to be more than worthwhile.
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march experimonth 2010 - train and compete
The majority of this post has been sitting in draft form since April 4th:
So a brief recap. In march, my experimonth was pretty good. I was sick the first and third weeks of the month, so i didn’t do much training, but I did sign up for The Great Human Race - a 5K that I helped organize for the first time in Durham back when I worked at the Volunteer Center (pretty sure it was in...
“Inside every copy of Belle and Sebastian’s new album Write About Love is a...”
– Very cool. Just thinking about the project itself and what could result (at least two great books, compiling the very best and very worst of submissions) is fun.
This is the kind of stuff that excites music fans (and subtly plays with the power dynamics of fandom) and makes buying not only their...
Roger Ebert's rules for telling jokes
@ebertchicago really is doing some of the best work of his life, and also has become quite adept at using twitter to highlight his back catalog (going for some deep cuts by showcasing choice movie reviews on actors’ birthdays, for example).
I really enjoyed this essay from April 2009, but particularly broke up over rule #4:
4. Never explain. ”See, there’s this playwright...
