Whenever I teach this JTerm course on entrepreneurship, friends and colleagues often ask me "do you miss it?" Meaning do I miss the business world. The answer has always been, "yes, but I love teaching even more." This year the answer is different, this year the answer is... "yes, and …
more ...The students are on the plane home, and I am now in Napa taking a few days of R&R and thinking about what I learned during the month of January. TLDR -- Lots! But the two things I would like to focus on are the answers to the questions:
I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately and I know others have been repeating this question as we struggle through the strategic planning process.
It struck me the other day when one of my colleagues, a person I know worked on the current mission statement for Luther …
more ...I’m a fan of Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, whether its because he “got it” and was the first customer of Net Perceptions or because of his fascination with space or just because I admire him as a leader. It doesn’t matter, I pay attention to what he …
more ...Since Luther announced that it will offer a new major in Data Science starting next fall, I’ve been answering a lot of questions. What is data science? What does one do with a data science major? What does a data scientist do? Why study data science at Luther? These …
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These are my shoes. I bought them for the great adventure of 2015, I started to wear them on January 1 when we left the USA. According to the health app on my iPhone they now have 647 miles on them. Much of that has been accumulated during our time …
Since the students were planning on sleeping in this morning, Jane and I decided to explore on our own a bit. High above Taormina sits the little town of Castelmola. You can't drive there, you have to climb. And so we did. But when we arrived …
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The van arrived right on schedule, 4:45 AM, and we were all in the courtyard in front of the flat on Triq DePiro ready to go. This is our last group trip together with the Malta students, Spring 2015 edition. It is a bonus trip in the sense that …