Kevin Garnett a Celtic: We’re Baaaack!
Last night, when the Kevin Garnett trade broke, perksisabeast summed up my feelings in his post, The worst trade in Celtics history draws perilously near, perfectly. Then after reading Bill Simmons’ post, McHale adds another notch to his Celtics legacy, and being reminded [by perksisabeast] to always look on the bright side of life, I […]
Something Facebook Doesn’t Know
I logged into my facebook account earlier today and saw this sponsored ad in my news feed: For those who don’t know, State Street is a global custodial bank for institutional investors. In other words, a bank for super-rich groups and people. The confidentially agreement prevents me from citing specific clients, but think hedge funds, […]
“I’ll Teach You to Laugh at Something That’s Funny”: The Simpsons Movie Review
Five minutes into The Simpsons movie, the guy sitting behind us summed up my opinion quite well, “it’s already worth the $10 ticket”. I chuckled and nodded my approval as I settled in for a joyride through my adolescence with all my old animated chums. I had reservations about the The Simpsons Movie before going […]
The Modern Charismatic Military
War, the business of a military, requires an immense commitment from a leader’s followers in order to result in success. To obtain such a strong commitment, military leaders should and are charismatic. They build trust among their followers to the point of followers trusting their leaders with their very lives. One of my first thoughts […]
Undergraduate Summer 2007 Grades – University of Massachusetts at Amherst
The final grade for the Business and Its Environment undergraduate course at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst was published to the SPIRE web-site last week. My A grade continues the trend from my classes during the Spring and Winter sessions, a trend that will hopefully continue through the graduate class, Perspectives on Leadership, I’m […]
Best Political Candidate Ever: None of the Above
Instead of a post tonight, please check out this article in today’s Boston Globe by Andrew Ryan. The article describes a proposal by William H. White of East Dennis, MA which: would add the line “none of the above: for a new election” on ballots to the choices for each elective office. If the none-of-the-above […]
State Street Tears Up Wall Street
Normally, I try to avoid talking about my employer on this site to avoid getting “dooced“, but today marked a great day for State Street. We announced our earnings for the past quarter and reported a 61% increase in profits from a year ago, up to $366 million! We also reported record revenue of $1.921 […]
Our Wicked Cute Dog, Misia
It seems the internet is obsessed with cats, and just how freaking cute they are. Well my humble opinion is dogs are a much better pet, animal, and friend for several reasons, not the least of which is that they are able to be vicious and cute. So to counter the internet’s cute cat bias, […]
3 From Every Tree: My Favorite Blog Project Entries
Last week, I wrote a post about 3 Useful Del.icio.us Tags, Life Quotes, & Traffic Generators, which was part of a blog project contest hosted by Daily Blog Tips. Well, the full list is up and after reading through all 115 entries, it’s obvious there’s a lot of quality bloggers on this list! You can […]
Not Too Much Fun: A Review of the Ronald Jenkees Debut Album
As promised in last night’s post, here’s a more in-depth review of Ronald Jenkees self-titled debut album. Derty The album starts out with one of my favorite songs, which is a great song all unto itself, but gets extra points for introducing Bill Simmons’s podcast. It’s been a lot of fun watching this song progress […]
Ronald Jenkees Self-Titled Debut Album Out Now!!!
As my readers now know, I’m a big Ronald Jenkees fan and have written about his fantastic music here and here. Well, today Ronald announced the release of his first full length album! Having a chance to listen to previews of the songs last night and buying a full copy of Almost Undamaged [the perks […]
This Is MONDRAGON!
Umass – Amherst – SCH-MGMT – 365 Business and Its Environment Summer 2007 Discussion #10 1) What are the characteristics of the Mondragon cooperatives that you find most different from businesses with more familiar organizational forms? 2) What assumptions seem to underlie the Mondragon? 3) What do you think about these characteristics and assumptions? Democracy […]
Know Your Rights: The Fair Use Doctrine
This post will be brief as I’m in the finals period for the Management 365: Business and Its Environment class, but I wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Fair Use Day! Posted below in it’s entirety, is the fair use doctrine from the U.S. Copyright Office. Know your rights everyone and enjoy the holiday! […]
How Much Leadership Can $1 Buy?
Class: School of Management 697PP: Perspectives on Leadership. Discussion #5B Is [John] Mackey a visionary, charismatic, or transformational leader? Is he a leader at all? What has made his business so successful—leadership or something else? John Mackey is undoubtedly a leader, one of the finest examples of an exemplary leader we can study. His mission […]
3 Useful Del.icio.us Tags, Life Quotes, & Traffic Generators
Daniel from Daily Blog Tips is running a blog project revolving around the number three, so here are three sets of three useful things: tags, quotes, and traffic generators. 3 Useful Del.icio.us Tags I’m a big fan of del.icio.us and a while ago noticed people were tagging articles with toread for articles and blog posts […]
Wicked Awesome Fireworks in Boston on the Fourth of July
I went to see the fireworks display last night with some peoples from Charlestown and took a couple videos of the awesome celebration. We were on the Cambridge side of the Charles river right across from the barge with the fireworks so we had an excellent vantage point. This is not a knock on other […]
Happy Independence Day!
This flag rises up a few steps from Edward Everett Square, my hood yo! Although our current President’s disreguard for the constitution, or seemingly any law may incite you to light fireworks, even if your city or state prohibits them, or drink beer and party in excess, even if you’re underage, I urge you to […]
Start iTunes & Last.fm Simultaneously
Inspired by Paul Stamatiou’s post on a Finder plugin to restart Firefox, I decided to tackle a long standing personal issue with iTunes and last.fm. For those not in the know, last.fm is in essence a music tracking program; any song you play in your iTunes gets sent to the last.fm site, where you can […]