At the CIP Lounge on Sunday night, just before boarding my Emirates flight to Kula Lumpur, Malaysia, I had a single thought in my mind. It would be nice to get some sleep for a change. The week leading up to the departure of our delegation to the APICTA 2010 awards scheduled at KLCC had…
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Recommended Reading: 100 books to read before you croak or turn 40
They say you can tell everything about someone by taking a look at his bedside reading list. Here is a new feature that shares my bed side reading habits as well as reviews books that helped me get to the next stage of my life. This week the list only has a couple of recommended…
Content or Technology – Who will win? A historical perspective
I don’t remember when. August or September, I know it was New York from ten years ago, I was happy to be on campus, back within the familiar rooms I had recently left. But I don’t remember if it was hot or cold. Fresh from my start up land, pool and lake view apartment in…
Columbia College Walk-Cherry trees for Fawzia
It was only when I first saw the cherry trees and realized that Fawzia was not here with me at Columbia that I realized that before Reboot, before startups, and before our California adventure, the Cherry blooms I wrote about reminded me of something far more important than I ever realized. Our first year together…
Startup Trek: The 7 days, 5 airport, 16,000 mile journey starts
Just about ready to head out home from work and start packing for the trip. The last two days have been a stretch. Marketing collateral, tickets and power plugs are all in the bag. The Europe Ash affair has really screwed up schedules and the first casualty is the emirates online check in. Here is…
Risk Applications and Frameworks: Preface to the first edition
Ever since I started running risk management training workshops and teaching Executive MBA students, I had been looking for a textbook that walked the middle ground between plain English and as few mathematical equations as possible. It had to be concise and to the point yet cover the basics of quantifying risk, implementing risk policies,…
Risk Applications and Frameworks: Dedication
Risk Applications and Framework went to print today. This is the third book we have sent to print this year. The first one (Reboot) took three years. Every new effort gets easier and easier. Full credit for this “Just Ship It” goes to Uzma Salahuddin and Agnes Paul on the content, editing and production side…
Startup Guide: Lessons from a failed startup
Looking through the wreckage of an old folder, found this post for the really early days of Reboot – the original list of lessons from a failed startup that became the book. Here is the list, with one new addition, five years later. 1) Technology is not a competitive advantage. Focus on the business problem…
Columbia Business School, 10th year, class of 2000 reunion update…
Frank Byrd was the portrait of a southern gentleman at Columbia. Cultured, polite, smart, likeable and very down to earth. I remember at least a handful of my class mates who used to swoon, every time Frank would pass by (don’t worry my lips are sealed, Frank make it worth my while and I will…
The Google Adsense update: Banner Exchange
Two new banners designed by the outstanding Nida Faizi that we started using yesterday on the Brinkin Banner exchange program as well across the rest of our domains. I had always felt that decently designed banners and images sometimes (not always) work better than simple text links on your blog rolls. Let’s see what happens…