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In Search of Sustainable Careers – 5 Reasons Why I Would Not Go Back to Business School

March 17, 2009

in On Learning & Education, Work & Entrepreneurship

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Excerpt: If I was eighteen, and clueless about what I wanted to do with my life, I would do business school all over again. I’m not eighteen anymore, so I would not go back to business school.  Not when there are many other ways of learning out there. 1. I’m not fit to give you any business advice A couple of months ago, a friend of mine headed back to school in a remote community in interior BC.  She wrote to me, excitedly about her new surroundings.  She was also excited about a business idea she’s had: the campus was set up miles away…

Old Rules Out, New Rules In – What Investors Should Demand Going Forward

March 16, 2009

in Picks & Ideas

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Excerpt: Given the present market bloodbath, there are many ongoing discussions on what the sensible investment strategy should be going forward, and whether one should still be investing in face of economic uncertainties at all. Most solutions favour an old-school approach. Many personal finance writers have gone back to basic principles of investing such as dollar-cost averaging, diversification, looking at the long term, be calm when the market is fearful, etc. Many are viewing investment through a mostly unchanged framework as what we have become accustomed to. But my question is, in a time when the corporate world, government bodies, and media…