Category Archives: organizing

Company as Product

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Skip Walter

In the middle of his entertaining and energetic lecture at the University of Washington’s Foster Business School in an entrepreneuring class, Ralph Derrickson suddenly stopped at the left side of the room. He started chuckling and said “You know as … Continue reading →

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Creating Your Personal Future

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Skip Walter

“‘Kingfish, where’d you get your good judgment?’ And Kingfish says, ‘From my experience.’ And where’d you get your experience from?’ And Kingfish says ‘From bad judgment.’” I am often asked to help entrepreneurs, executives and students with the direction they … Continue reading →

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Who’s Watching the Scientists?

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Skip Walter

“Look at the top 10 images for scientists that show up on Google” presented Carrie Tzou as she introduced the session at the UW Bothell Innovation Forum Tic Talk on STEM Education. As we all had a good laugh, Carrie asked what … Continue reading →

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Integrity – Easily Lost, Hard to Regain

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Skip Walter

In writing the blog post on “Succumbing to the Ultimate Power Trip,” I was reminded of a bookend to this experience. One of the more interesting players in the Watergate affair was Egil “Bud” Krogh. Bud was the 32 year … Continue reading →

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Succumbing to the Ultimate Power Trip

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Skip Walter

While at lunch with a colleague the other day, we got to talking about different aspects of power.  I asked if my lunch partner had ever experienced the “power trip” that is the White House environment. “No, why?” was the … Continue reading →

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Idealized Design Qualities for a University

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Skip Walter

In many ways our universities are a four hundred year old anachronism.  In the last twenty years with the expansion of the Internet for content, connections, and communications, the world of learning is in a different state.  As Brynjolfsson and … Continue reading →

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Growth Partners

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Skip Walter

Working with startup entrepreneurs, I am often asked “What else should I be thinking about?” Invariably the answer is “what are you doing to create growth partners?” The experienced startup entrepreneurs will think through and develop plans for a channel … Continue reading →

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Visuals Speak to Me – Quite Loudly as it Turns Out

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Skip Walter

I am a very visual person, although I have more of an ability to recall those things I’ve seen rather than being very good at creating visuals. This week my cup overfloweth with colleagues and students pointing me to some … Continue reading →

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Organizations Don’t Tweet, People Do – Euan Semple

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Skip Walter

Once you figure out how to dip your “knowledge net” into the stream of search engines, blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, the world just shows up at your doorstep (oops, I mean browser window).  Well, sort of.  It helps a … Continue reading →

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Is the university experience wasted on the young?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Skip Walter

Every now and again, the universe conspires to free up some time to do some face to face learning with terrific resources in the academic world.  After a whirlwind set of face to face meetings with professors at UW Seattle … Continue reading →

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