Archive for the ‘Training’ Category

I feel like a rock star – part ii

I don’t like narcissist posts on principal. After all what is the use of having a fan club/site/page if you have to blow your own horn all the time. But this morning when the SP Jain student feedback quietly sneaked into my mailbox and I saw the most generous comments I have ever [...]

February 16, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Failure, Startup Insiders, Training, new ventures, small business  No Comments

Dubai Tech Nights – 9th February 2010

It ended up being an evening full of surprises.

When Adnan first checked with me about my availability on the 9th for Dubai Tech Nights I thought we were talking about a small gathering. So when I walked in at 5:45pm after following some really colorful directions to Room 212 at the RIT campus at [...]

February 10, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Startup, Startup Insiders, TIE, Training, new ventures, small business  No Comments

The second best job in the world, part two…

To the three batches (Division A, Division B, and EMBA Batch 13), who made me feel like a rock star two Thursdays in a row. Thank you. Keep them pictures coming J

December 20, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Columbia Business School, Education, Failure, Startup, Startup Insiders, Training, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  No Comments

Hans Rosling, Gapminder & Google.

Two days ago I received a cryptic email from a prospective client. It had a link and a simple “Take a look at this please.”

I did.

I recommend that you do the same.

Hans Rosling and Google together have done more for statistics with their tool, their presentation and their data aggregation than all of the [...]

September 25, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Education, Risk, Risk Training, Training, the economy stupid  No Comments

More soothing snapshots from the rain forest

Apparently everyone has been seeing red for the last few days and my green and environmentally friendly electronic blog post about my day trip to the rain forest in Singapore, turned out to be a major eco-friendly hit. Here are more pictures from the same trip and the same forest. They are much [...]

March 20, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Personal shit, Training  No Comments

Scenes of mayhem…

I get to teach another course at S P Jain in Dubai and end up with a group open book, open laptop, open network final on a fine Friday morning after teaching till mid night the night before.
Here are some scenes of anguish, pain, denial, rage and suffering from my lovely students.

Nilesh (below) was [...]

June 3, 2008   Posted in: Education, Training  2 Comments

How to catch a bad pitch – SI 7 – Karachi – one

Just follow FQ’s reaction as Yusuf Jan, Jawwad Farid, Owais Zaidi pitch their wares at the role playing session on pitching and trip miserably.
Faisal played the rude and rough customer role, riding all over our combined egos and our pitches on Saturday. Luckily we were only able to get Mr. Zaidi’s plight on camera. [...]

March 24, 2008   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Sales guys in suits, Startup, Startup Insiders, Training, new ventures, small business  4 Comments

MIT BAP, Ken Morse, TAN and Pakistan

The setting was a small conference room at the Marriot in the year that was 2006. We had heard Ken Morse was making a brief stopover in town on his way to Isloo and Nida my MIT sister had managed to pick up four invitations from the MIT Club in Karachi.

We were a [...]

February 29, 2008   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Education, Ken Morse, MIT BAP, PASHA, Pakistan, Sales guys in suits, Startup, Training, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  5 Comments

Teaching at SP Jain, Singapore

Here is to a wold which is so much smaller and closer than the one I grew up in – where it is perfectly normal for a Pakitani practitioner to teach at an Indian University in Singapore.

The program, Global and Executive MBA run by SP Jain Institute of Management and Research. The Instiute is [...]

February 13, 2008   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Education, Training  No Comments

The myth of a unique idea – one

How important is it to start off with an idea that no one has ever thought of before. Something absolutely unique, different and able to stand up on its own. A concept that would win you grudging respect from your friends, colleagues, class mates and neighbors. “That is one smart dude” they’d whisper as [...]

February 12, 2008   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Desi Startup, Failure, Startup, Training, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  5 Comments