Posted by: jakakistan | March 25, 2011

A Theorem, a Piano and a Book

Why we Need Scenario Planning

Kurt Goedel’s incompleteness theorem: Any set of axiomatic rules are either complete and inconsistent, or consistent and incomplete. [Thanks, Paul Dowding in a letter to the FT]

Kao Innovates with Music

John Kao talks about the “how” of innovation, and uses a piano to illustrate his points. Fantastic, use your whole brain! The video is here.

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Posted by: jakakistan | March 7, 2011

Generate this Next

Found some great random generators for stories:

  • Writer’s Plot Generator from Pantomime Pony: Funny stuff, nice and concise, yet fleshed out with a few strategically and sensibly placed adjectives
  • Fantasy Plotter for fantasy… plots… from Manon at Serendipity: Short, sweet and straight to the point. Also includes names, characters, places, things, costumes, stories. Merci!
  • Seventh Sanctum Generators for fantasy: A bit too random and Mad-Libby on the story generator, but a nice wealth of generators for every step of the way
Posted by: jakakistan | August 16, 2010

Judith C. Cuaresma: A Tribute

The Facebook has just told me to help Judith Caloza Cuaresma find her friends.

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I’m not sure I’ve come to terms with not having gone to visit her before I left for school. Maybe I thought she’d still be there when I got back to Manila over Christmas. Maybe she’d be in better shape – maybe we could chat and catch her up on all of the wonderful things I learned in my first few months of the MBA. Never mind that she wouldn’t be able to laugh the way she used to – maybe I could still tell her jokes.

I never got to.

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Posted by: jakakistan | August 14, 2010

AnotherView

In a previous post on interviews, I bullet-pointed some… pointers… from an article that I read about the dynamics of interviews. It was all well and good, but it seemed to me to be a bit contrived and too planned out. This is fine if that’s the way one operates, it gave me the same feeling I was getting when I was sending out applications willy-nilly a few months ago, before I sat down and had a talk with myself – I just didn’t feel it.

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Posted by: jakakistan | August 14, 2010

On B-sides, Elevation and Bridges

Other forums, other points of view.

Don’t get lost in the clouds.

Think about these potential pitfalls before you migrate your systems from the earth to the sky.

BOPpin’ away to the top.

  • CGAP - Independent policy and research center that works to advance financial access to the BOP
  • MicroCred Group – Creating and developing MFIs all over the world
  • Blue Orchard – Microfinance investment managers
Posted by: jakakistan | August 11, 2010

Google gorging

[while watching Bloomberg, 13h30 CET]

Google’s gobbling up gaggles of Deals – big ones – and will… deal… with “other” (read: regulatory) issues later.

From what the Department of International Mystery gathers in its… Intel*… on Google’s insides, the DIM wonders if Google’s not tempting fate by ignoring other “other” issues (read: operational capacity). Unless the big G puts its ability to scale its business up alongside the Deal frenzy, it may choke on its own feast.

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Posted by: jakakistan | July 30, 2010

Mind your p’s and q’s | Pay(out) loader

A whole new world (ish).

The wisdom of Steve Blank from “Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups“. [Thanks, Frank at Small World Group and JustinTV.]

What’s the big idea(s)?

  • You’re there as a startup peoples to ” search for a repeatable, scalable business model”.
  • Search – Pivot – Execute
  • “No business plan survives first contact with customers”

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Posted by: jakakistan | June 17, 2010

Rump Shake-Up

The UK chancellor has released a new hit single: “Rump Shake-Up”, featuring the Artist Formerly Known as FSA, the New CPMA on the Block and The King

This just in: Osborne has served the FSA a visceral slice [thanks, FT by email!].

5 Things:

  • The prime cut will be reincarnated as a new Consumer Protection and Markets Authority responsible for bank regulation and policing
  • The “rump part” gets slapped on the back of the BoE as prudential regulator, which will be called [insert name here]

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Posted by: jakakistan | June 12, 2010

Prediction and Conviction

Casting Call

Forecasting demand is apparently done in a sub-optimal manner in many quarters. According to Armstrong and Green (2010), the following should be avoided:

  • Intuition
  • Unstructured meetings
  • Focus groups
  • Data mining
  • Complex methods

[Thanks, DPRM!]

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Posted by: jakakistan | June 4, 2010

Interviews, Interesting Views and Worldviews

It’s Dynamic! Boogie Woogie Oogie

Interviews progress – it’s a tale of reading and acting, reading and reacting. Five of the tips from Fred Ball that I liked [thanks, BNET]:

  • Come prepared knowing your concrete achievements (quantifiable or not… e.g. “trophy wife”)
  • Dress for success and enter with a mindset of respect
  • Talk about what the interviewer wants to know, not what you want to talk about

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