This week's Economist has a valuable article of the way Honeywell is run. Here I draw out ten points that make sense to me.
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This article was first published here aims to convince you that it is worth considering entrepreneurship seriously as a career choice, even if you never start a business, to give tips about how to get the most out of the week if you are already convinced, and to give you signposts towards other things you can do, if you want to be involved in enterprise more than just one week a year.
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Ramon Tancinco (Head of Strategy at Cisco Central Europe) Ramon Tacinco's TEDxKrakow talk set up the Krakow Network site as a volunteer.
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As the youngest person present, in an event that normally is attended by adults, he attracted a lot of attention. It's great that he decided to enter. As a role model for those who want Poland to more entrepreneurial, Krystian cannot be faulted. Hats off to his father - Krzysiek -too. Any adult reading this should note their role in making children they know aware of the possibilities, and devoting time to support the next generation. I asked for an interview them by e-mail, and this is what we came up with.
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Preparing for a Sunday teaching entrepreneurship for an International MBA, and a Monday morning workshop in a high school, I was reminded of this blog post by a teacher who really liked it so I updated it in January 2019.
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Building the pro enterprise eco-system in Krakow is a long term goal of tremendous importance and it would be good to think through all the issues so that the sum of the parts is greater than us all working independently.
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At first, it was the idea that sometimes I would not be able to communicate how great something was without expressing it in a different language (movies, lyrics, books, poems). When I started translating professionally, I also found that I am motivated by the need to investigate terminological mysteries. It's great fun to work with lyrics, although I don't get to do as much of that kind of translation as I would like to. As far as subtitling goes, I love movies, so I find it very rewarding when I can figure out a way to express a piece of dialog in a form that is succinct enough to work as a subtitle. Also, as a freelance translator I can make my own hours, and that is the way I like to work.
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One of the uses of this group is to distribute information about Wojtek related initiatives, cultural events and the like. I first heard about Animal Monday at an event in the Scottish Parliament at the beginning of 2010 over 2 years ago. Since then Animal Monday have made a film Wojtek - The Bear that went to war. Details of what to do if you want to organise a showing, or see it, are in this interview I did by e-mail with Will Hood. Many thanks to him for his time.
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(This interview was published on the Cambridge University Careers department web site in 2008 behind a password wall.. I'm re posting it here on Soundcloud
Our Director, Gordon Chesterman met with Richard during a recent visit to Cambridge and asked him about entrepreneurship and starting your own business.
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This article should be useful to companies designing or running internship programs, who want make them successful, and to interns who want to make sure that they end up in the right sort of company where they are appreciated and valued. For interns, few things in life are as demoralizing as being ready to commit and help an organization and then to find that the company is not interested or aware of their commitment and potential contribution.
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Winchester College is of the UK’s oldest and best known schools (for pupils from 12-18 year olds) – who has revitalized the careers function at the school. Making it better and cheaper than before he took over. This article is designed to highlight the simple, low cost actions that can be taken a parent, teacher (or pupil) by any school, anywhere in the world to develop local versions of this type of project.
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Maciej Noworyta is the founder of www.SwiatGry.pl and won a school entrepreneurship competition at The Marie Skłodowska-Curie high school in Skawina Poland in February 2010. 12 pupils with exceptional extra currucula contributions to school and local life were asked by their entrepreneurship teacher Barbara Werner to present their “plan for the future” to a panel of 5 judges. A panel of judges of which I was part, selected which plan was best. Among the criteria we decided were most important were
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As the title of the article suggests, and Google’s explosive revenue growth proves, it’s highly likely that any successful company will have at least experimented with Google Adwords. If your company is currently spending more than a million Euros a year on conventional marketing (conventional adverts, direct mail/telesales, trade fairs, and events) and has never spent anything on Google Adwords then something is almost certainly wrong. Even a few thousand well spent Euros/Pounds/Dollars on Adwords can generate better results than conventional marketing. This article is more aimed at readers who find this statement obvious rather than those who have yet to learn/understand. If you don’t understand and you want to keep your job, stop reading this article and learn about Adwords now.
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I was very interested to see that a retired soldier was advising about leadership, and looked at the web site which was full of common sense, and challenges the idea that the military is a place of centralised top down decision making. I talked to Videojug.com about this video here being available to Global Entrepreneurship Week which we are supporting: hopefully they'll agree. Many thanks to Bill for his time.
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Richard Lucas was speaking to Joe Tarantola CEO of Kline: PMR has been a close partner of Kline for many years, with strong cultural and personal affinities. Joe Tarantola is CEO of Kline, a highly successful worldwide consulting and research firm which has been in business for nearly 50 years. Following a brainstorming session in our HQ in Cracow - in Central Europe – I proposed an interview for the blog. I didn’t know what Joe was going to say, but I knew the results would be interesting. My questions and Joe’s answers are presented below:
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Exhibitors have complained since the beginning of time that fairs have ‘too many' visitors who are not buyers but competitors, students and people who are trying to sell to those who are paying for stands. Are these complaints getting stronger over time, or is this just inevitable human nature?
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After a long break I am back to writing.
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Hello World!
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