Boston Latin School: Wolfpack Pride
I just received an e-mail newsletter from the Boston Latin School Alumni Association with a nice piece of news about my alma mater, we’re now ranked the #78 best high school in America by Newsweek. Oh…and to Ephemerous, a Bostonblogger comrade, I did not see Latin Academy on the list, but hey there’s always next […]
Umass Amherst – Management 365: Business and Its Environment
I’m attempting to take two classes during the first summer session the University of Massachusetts at Amherst offers, however, I need to seek approval from the MBA program at Umass as the second class is a graduate level class, which has a restriction in place of requiring a bachelor’s degree to take, even though I […]
Parties, Business, Impeachment and Music
In lieu of a post tonight, I’d like to give out a few quick shout-outs to some people I know in “real world” and their digital manifestations. First up are my fellow Tar Heels over at Thrills on the Hill. The fellas over there are posting events going on in Chapel Hill during the summer. […]
Spring 2007 Grades – University of Massachusetts at Amherst
I just went and checked the grades section on my SPIRE account on the University of Massachusetts at Amherst web-site and my official grades for the Spring 2007 semester are posted. A 4.0 GPA for the Spring ’07 semester! I got an A in both courses, Fundamentals of Marketing and Quantitative Tools for Management (aka […]
Click…Click…Click: How a Virtual (K)Ubuntu Penguin Saved My 50GB Music Collection
Late yesterday afternoon, I was cruising around the internet, listening to some music and doing a few other miscellaneous tasks. I was wicked relaxed and thought it was a good idea to kick my legs up on my desk and rest my laptop on my lap for a few minutes…well I forgot the USB cord […]
Ronald Jenkees: A YouTube Musical Phenom
Check out Ron Jenkees’ intro for Bill Simmon’s podcast. This track is a banger. Ron does a great job of describing the track himself, “It’s got a real dirty sound, like a rusty steak knife cutting through a well aged steak.” If Bill Simmon’s doesn’t use this for his podcast, I might just stop listening […]
Wicked Awesome: AL East Standings as of 05/28/2007
Well, you don’t need a thousand words to describe this picture; in fact, five will do quite nicely. Red Sox Rock, Yankees Suck! Image courtesy of Boston.com.
WaMu: The Right People for the Right Job
Washington Mutual doesn’t look at a person’s skill set or previous accomplishments when they’re looking for a new hire, instead WaMu looks for certain attitudes. They believe they can teach any necessary skills to people, but they cannot train people to have a good and positive attitude. A big part of making sure employees have […]
The Strategy of No Strategy
Professor Stookey [Principles of Management – Umass Amherst] made a very good comment in the description for this post that Robbins and Coulter rely on "rationality, logic, and order" to describe strategy and how to implement it. In my mind the word strategy implies a logical and ordered plan of action. I feel that growing […]
Welcome to the human resource.
It was sweltering hot in Boston today, but I enjoyed it. Living in Southern California and North Carolina, I’ve gotten used to hot temperatures and actually quite like the very hot days now. Anyway, small rant aside, I’m posting another discussion post from my Principles of Management class at Umass-Amherst, as it is still too […]