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Our Brains are Amazing

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We recently had a guest MBA lecturer who gave us an interesting talk about neuroscience and how we can get our brains to perform optimally by eating properly, exercising, sleeping between 7 and 9 hours a day, and many other practices that one can do to improve brain functionality. In line with the interesting discussions we had about [...]

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Personality and Thoughts

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. – Frank Outlaw

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Body, Mind and Spirit

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One of the most important things that I am learning on this MBA journey, is that I need to listen to what my body and mind are telling me. But the one aspect that they don’t push, is for me to listen to what my soul is telling me. After taking some time this morning [...]

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A Capitalist Rethinking His Stance

I have always thought of myself as a capitalist who agrees whole-heartedly with the theory as well as other great ideals such as globalisation. Of the latter I used to think “let it take its course, it’s capitalist in nature, it must be good!” Shock, horror, I recently discovered that all is not as I [...]

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The First Week of MBA Orientation

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You can only ever be as great as you aspire to be, the big questions are: What do you aspire to be? How do you get there? The MBA journey that I have only recently undertaken has made me think about these 2 questions in great detail and it has already given me a lot [...]

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MBA Orientation Weekend

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Today was our first official day at the business school, but not our first day of the MBA. That started on Saturday, with a team building weekend that has been affectionately termed “boot camp”. Boot Camp Explained The reason for the name boot camp, is that in order to get to know how our groups [...]

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Preparation and Growth

The Preparation is done, but the growth has just begun In my last 3 weeks leading up to the start of the first year of my 2 year MBA journey, I have found that I have learnt so much more about not only the content covered, but about my true self as well. The main [...]

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Just in Time

No, this is not referring to some amazing just in time manufacturing in Japan, but rather the result of the A-bomb that I got this evening. That’s the assignment bomb! What Happened Being a good nerd, I was doing my pre-course preparation, and was about to get up to go to church, and wham, there [...]

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Self Reflection Started Earlier Than Planned

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So I know it’s not Monday, but better late than never. I have a good reason for not posting this yesterday: I planned on having a look at the books that I had fetched for the course and say something about the books and how fun the subjects sound, but to my surprise the is [...]

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Great by Choice

Great by choice

Great by Choice is Jim Collins’ latest book in which he searches to find what it is that makes some of the top companies great. The main similarity of great companies that Collins identifies in this book are “10X Leaders”, and the traits that they consistently portray. Some of the traits that he identifies which [...]

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