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Article about how to leverage LinkedIn to find your ideal job

Published on May 28, 2009 by Marquis in career, interesting articles, other sites

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What’s up, y’all. I hope you’ve all had a good week so far and are looking forward to a relaxing weekend…because I know I am

I wanted to give y’all a quick entry before I hop on a plane in the morning and head back to Old Nassau (i.e. Princeton University) to attend this year’s Reunions festivities. This will be my first time there in five years, so it feels pretty weird to be going back. But, it’ll be nice to catch up with folks and it should also be a good way to get about 200 more photos… Read the rest

Question about professional attire and a Memorial Day shout out to the troops

Published on May 25, 2009 by Marquis in career, Professional attire

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What’s good, folks. For those of you in the United States, I hope you had a relaxing Memorial Day holiday off from work and are looking forward to the short week. But, I also hope that, while you were enjoying your day off, you took time to remember the brave men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces who place their lives at risk every day to protect our country. And, in particular, I pray that each of you gave thanks to the many soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving their country. I’m not sure how many of… Read the rest

Couple of interesting articles about personality traits of successful CEOs and the future of B-schools

Published on May 20, 2009 by Marquis in Business School, career, interesting articles, mba

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Hi, everyone. I recently came across a couple of articles that I thought might interest the MBAs and other future business leaders out there. In both cases, the articles were too long to copy into an entry, so I’ve posted some excerpts along with the direct links.

The first article is an op-ed from the New York Times describing a recent study into the qualities that are highly correlated with successful CEOs. At first, I thought I’d be able to guess at the results of the study, but I was surprised by some of the findings, particularly concerning the “soft … Read the rest

Response to some constructive feedback from a reader

Published on May 20, 2009 by Marquis in About Marquis, Reader comments, reader feedback, Reader follow-up, real life stuff

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Hello all, I hope you had a nice evening and have started off your day well. As you know, I regularly read comments that my readers post on my site and take time to consider all feedback that I receive. This entry is to respond to some feedback that came in and sparked some thoughts. It came in as a posted comment rather than an email, so posting an entry was the only way that I could respond. Here’s the story…

One of my readers who goes by the handle “ConsultantGirl” left the following comment on a recent blog entry … Read the rest

Question about what drives a B-school’s reputation

Published on May 18, 2009 by Marquis in Business School, Stanford GSB

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What’s up, peoples. I hope all of you had a nice weekend and got through the first day of the work week alright. Random question…is it just me or does time pass really quickly when you’re doing something that you like? I know that most people dread Mondays, but I actually look forward to them because I dig my job. Seriously, right now, I can’t think of anything that I’d want to change about the gig and this is first time I’ve ever been able to say that…actually, I would change the winters in Chicago because it gets pretty daggone… Read the rest

Lessons about business courtest of Stanford GSB’s outgoing Dean Robert Joss

Published on May 18, 2009 by Marquis in career, interesting articles, Stanford GSB

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The article below was taken from the website of the Financial Times and was written by the current Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Robert Joss. It’s hard for me to put into words how big of a fan I am of Dean Joss. First of all, he’s a GSBer through-and-through…a three-time GSB graduate (MS, MBA, and PhD) and is about to wrap up his tenure as Dean of the school after ten years (link to his bio… Read the rest). He’s also a heavy hitter in the business world with a 25+-year career in banking at Wells Fargo

So what’s the big picture now???

Published on May 17, 2009 by Marquis in About Marquis, career, career-life balance

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What’s good, folk. Gotta love lazy Sundays, right? I’m especially relaxed this weekend after having witnessed the college graduation of my youngest sister, MYP. It had been a long road to graduation for her and my entire family came together to help her through it, so we were all incredibly proud to see her walk across that stage and be recognized for this accomplishment. Even better, she majored in Business Administration, so she just might follow my footsteps into the business world, which is pretty daggone cool. I don’t think she follows this blog, but, if she somehow sees this… Read the rest

An upcoming resource for those interested in VC…and a couple of other interesting things

Published on May 10, 2009 by Marquis in interesting articles, interview advice, mba, other blogs, other sites, professional advice, venture capital

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What’s going on, y’all. As you know, I enjoy publicizing cool things that my friends do and passing along information that might be helpful or interesting to my readers. Well, I’ve got something in this entry that covers both of these bases.

My long-time readers should remember me mentioning my friend and fellow blogger… Read the rest, John G. in earlier posts. He’s a Univ. of Penn engineering grad and Columbia MBA who works for a Venture Capital firm in NYC. He and I go waaaaaaaaaay back to our dot-com era days at Scient and, even now, we help each other back