Yardsticks
In my last post, I talked about uncovering the yardsticks that senior managers use to make decisions. So what were the factors I used for making decisions at Save the Children? I felt this was an...
View ArticleProjects and Cots
I attended a kick-off meeting today for a large project at Save the Children (SC.) We are upgrading our donor management system (DMS, for short) and were hosting a senior project team from a major...
View ArticleThe Future
I attended the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search Awards gala as Intel’s guest last evening (see the STS page, here http://www.intel.com/education/sts/ ). I can’t begin to describe what an inspiring...
View ArticlePacking, Unpacking and Travel
I used to look forward to business trips. Flying to a new city was an adventure. One of my colleagues posted the “Cities I’ve Visited” by TripAvisor.com on Facebook. So I gave it a test drive. (See the...
View ArticleThe First Few Days
The first few days on campus have come and gone quickly. The people here have made me feel very welcome and a part of their team. I’m earning my keep reviewing ideas and proposals. Those in the know...
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Classes Begin
It snowed today. Five inches. I decided a snow day was needed and headed out to the cross country trails with skis and snowshoes in tow. Lest anyone think this indicates a smooth ride through the...
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Leadership: Four Ways of looking at a Blackbird
I gave a mini-presentation this week to the Comparative Leadership Models class that I'm auditing. Here's a narrative rerun. A copy of the slide deck is on my web site (under Presentations...) at...
View ArticleMicrofinance and Cell Phones
I attended an interesting talk on Microfinance last week. It was given by Joyce Lehman who managed a large microfinance program in Afghanistan for the past four years. She recently joined the Global...
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International Food Day
Nature cavorted with the calendar today. Students accepted for the class of 2010 at Tuck were visiting for the annual Admitted Students Weekend (ASW for acronym fans). And the temperature hit 80...
View ArticleLeft Brain, Right Brain
Three events last week led to some interesting discussions about "left brain" and "right brain" thinking. Left Brain thinking is logical, detail oriented, facts-based and analytical. Right Brain...
View ArticleA Short Story
Last week's NetHope Summit in San Jose was a memorable whirlwind immersion in new technology. Our left-brain technology loving side was well fed. In the right-brain column were all the relationships...
View ArticleA Sense of Play
I was on the MIT Campus for a CIO Summit and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) conference. It was if the two were held on different planets.The OLPC event began at the MIT Media Labs. During the reception, I...
View ArticleThe Speed of Information
I was sitting in a classroom a few weeks ago listening to teams of students make brief presentations. The class was Social Entrepreneurship (eShip for short.) They were talking about their impending...
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Commencement
"What we call the beginning is often the endAnd to make an end is to make a beginning.The end is where we start from. ...We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to...
View ArticleReentry
Two weeks have passed. I am back at Save the Children, having moved to Connecticut soon after commencement. One of the questions an advisor asked was “how will you continue the good things you began...
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The Imagine Cup
pas·sionFunction: nounEtymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin passion-, passio suffering, being acted upon, from Latin pati to suffer…4 b: “intense, driving, or overmastering...
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Imagine Cup II
Yesterday was the award ceremony in the lower level of the Louvre. It was arguably the "Oscars of Software." In nine categories, first the 3rd place team was announced, then 2nd, and 1st. Most received...
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Turning the Pyramid Upside Down
Remember the final scene in The Da Vinci code? The hero returns to the Louvre, where the story began, and realizes that the “grail” for which he has traveled so far, is at the base of the inverted...
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Another Point of View
In High School I took a class in architectural drawing where we learned how to draw houses in perspective. We were introduced to single and double points of view, with the eye near and far, lower and...
View ArticleCorporate Social Responsibility
I was asked to write an article on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR for short) in a recent issue of the Mass High Tech Journal[1]. I have permission to reproduce it here and I also refer you the...
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The Wisdom of Simplicity
Here's a story I told as part of my chairman's address at the NetHope Summit in Geneva. It's a metaphor to remind those of us who are technology leaders about what we we doing and the value of...
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Getting into the Boat
I heard an old story last Sunday that gave me pause. I'll paraphrase it for you:There was a big flood, and the water around a man's house was rising steadily.The man was standing on the porch, watching...
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Where will we be tomorrow?
On Tuesday NTEN held an on-line virtual book party for the launch of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission (see http://www.meetyourmission.org/). Each of the authors had the stage for a five minute...
View ArticleMoving the Discussion
I've decided to bring the Tuck/Dartmouth Fellowship Blog to a close. After all, graduation was last June. I've moved the discussion to a new blog, which you can find here: eghapp.blogspot.com . I look...
View ArticleScribd
So I clicked on the link to read some documents from the American Red Cross, and was asked to set up an ID for Sribd. Wanting to read the ARC documents, I signed up. I suppose this is good marketing,...
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