Module 2 Classes Complete!

I just finished with classes for Module 2 of my Global Executive MBA program.  I am currently in my hotel in Madrid and getting ready for dinner. We will be dinning tonight at the Palacio de Linares Even though this module was just 2 weeks, I feel like we have been gone for over a month. Each day is crammed full of learning, speakers, dinners/cultural events, studying and projects that each day magically turns into 100 hours. And for sleeping, well that is for things like lunch breaks. I was so exhausted one day, that i just pulled over a chair, put my feet up and was knocked out within seconds. This program is not for the faint at heart, as I am learning. But I guess, neither is life, well at least my life. What can I digest so far over these two weeks? -Leadership-Success-it means...

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Crash Creative: my masters thesis + my dream

I wanted to share something with you, a speech I gave in September of 2008 to the City of Seattle Council members: "We live in a world of evermore complicated problems that are integrated over all disciples over all human behavior.  We can no longer afford to create structures that are one sided/meet only one function. We can no longer keep ourselves looking for a solution in one area.  we need to create an infrastructure that blends all lines, to force a mix of ideas.  We need to create a CERN [Particle Accelerator] type of structure a type of city. Where instead of colliding particles we collide people in order to elucidate the ideas from them, to most importantly inspire new ideas. We can do this by acknowledging that art examines the raw form of the problems in society...

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Module Two-Spain!

Yesterday, I started Module Two of my Global Educational Adventure. We are currently in Barcelona and then next week will be in Madrid. (Tough life-huh?!) The courses in Module Two are: -Corporate Strategy, -Corporate Financial, -Industry Economics -Integrated Course: Competing Globalizing Industries So far, so GOOD! I am following along much better in Corporate Finance then last quarter's accounting class. My professor Gloria Batllori is an incredibly smart professor that can lasso complex ideas into a practical, simple approach that the students can all understand. She put a graphic on the board today where you saw all three financial statements connected and I could almost hear my brain click with "Aha". Not to say that I didn't understand the interdependence last quarter, but sometimes,...

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