…. “ode to the FND…” The Friday Night dinner club …. is something that I already wrote about — a dinner I have with my old boss, Jason Gorud who is my closest friend, once every 6 weeks or so at a nice restaurant in different country … this dinner is always on a friday.
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May
30
ode to the FND: Beijing
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May
22
black gucci loafer
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My marketing team asked me to repost this entry because they told me this is a popular “key word” on google for my blog. Although they wanted it reposted over the weekend, I am traveling to Beijing tonight and will not have time to do a blog for a few days. For anyone that works [...]
May
21
live show on radio indigo
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A few weeks ago, Subhashree, a marketing manager in our Bangalore office came up with a great idea — organize a recruitment drive on the biggest and most popular english radio station in Bangalore, India.
(naseba has a big office in Bangalore, India)
She contacted the biggest english radio station in Bangalore and explained her idea of [...]
May
20
where is John Galt?
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This is a re-post of an entry that I did in Oct 2007…by chance, a few old friends from university left comments on the blog over the past few weeks - which made me think a lot about this entry and story.
I have lived outside of America since 1994 — and looking at america from [...]
May
19
not sticking to the pitch…
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One thing that I like about my blog is that it helps manage me. I reflect a lot when I write an entry (esp. the Ode’s to M.E.) all this reflection helps me learn from - and understand my mistakes which in turn surely, makes me better.
In this blog — If I am going [...]
May
15
ode to Marcus Evans V…
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Today’s blog entry, another chapter in my ode to M.E. series is in reference to a comment that dhs left on the blog yesterday….”the difficulties for a manager to divorce personal from professional…”
around 8 years ago …. when I was just a good sales man and leader at my previous company, I assumed I knew [...]
May
12
ode to Marcus Evans IV…
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On the flight back from Riyadh this evening, Fabien commented: “the world today….. people want people who are successful to fail…”
and he mentioned several examples within our own little world… old friends, staff, etc…
My previous boss once laughed at my genuiness/naivity …. he said, “people envy your success — and they don’t give a [...]
May
11
The former NBA player and coach that I sat next to on my flight to Dubai last week told me that he was once very close with Mike Tyson before Mike got married to Robin Givens…as we spoke, he told me with a big sigh…. as if he was thinking & remembering outloud, how great [...]
May
10
ode to the man that was bigger than zeus…
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I posted this 6 months ago — hopefully, it gets everyone to reflect.
Wasted talent … a theme that drives many of these entries.
so many exceptionally talented people … who could of and should of, but didn’t….
Tomorrow I want to re-discuss the idea…”you are only as good as your last sale…”
When I was in [...]
May
7
ambition events…
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Last week my name as well as naseba was associated with possibly the most mediocre event that I have heard about — “RAW Africa” which was hosted by a naseba group company, ambition events.
My old buddy, the MD and founder of ambition events delivered an event that was so disgustingly, poorly prepared, managed and operationally [...]
