Posted in Misc on Oct 29th, 2007
Is when your iPod music matches your mood and you have time and change for a cappuccino and you find, in a copy of The Times kindly left for your perusal, a perfectly delicious little article. A gem. Rummaging in the Times online, later, I find there’s another I hadn’t seen.
I am not a big [...]
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Posted in Misc on Oct 18th, 2007
I got an invite, forwarded by my MBA course director, to attend a meeting yesterday of the Forum on Private Business. A chance to rub shoulders with entrepreurs and some parliamentarians followed by a “parliamentary reception.” A few seats were reserved for students apparently.
On the bus ride to Parliament Square (the event was held here, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2007
Starbuck’s search for some authentic Latin American coffee-related stuff to sell as it launches a new caramel flavored drink, dulce de leche, is recounted in yesterday’s Business Week. Typical Costa Rican mugs were brown, dull, and wouldn’t sell. An artisan making bright handpainted mugs was found and she was paid a [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2007
Starbucks founder, Howard Schulz, is the hero of a story in today’s Business Week magazine (I read the electronic edition; the linked version may not last) which tells the story of how he is “saving Starbuck’s soul” and planning to make the company three times bigger.
Which reminded me:
Last year I sent this delightful article [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2007
A blog begins with a walk on a day in London too fine to pass entirely unrecorded. The power of powdered wombat guts is discovered and the author’s life is changed.
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