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It is the Autosport Racing car show on at the moment in Birmingham.  Sadly funds and timing preclude me from going this year, the first time in ages, but following it on the web it was good to read another strong interview by Ron Dennis (McLaren CEO).  As he nears the end of his career it is fascinating to see how he chooses to spend the rest of his life and nice to hear he will be pursuing a path to genuinely help others.  Similar in many ways (but of course different in scale!) to Bill Gates.  The scientific approach to developing F1 is a good one, although there are better market sensing techniques that “market research surveys” – sometimes gut feel has its place too.

Read what he had to say here

Hubble Telescope Image

The first week of the second term is over already. Without getting too philosophical, time marches on a pace and the MBA journey continues.  Much as the life of the Hubble Telescope, where time is really just another concept, will soon be at an end, so will the course.  For some I am sure that will be a great relief and for others a sad time.

My fellow students from places such as the USA or Europe are feeling much richer this term, do to the exchange rates, so are doing their best to prop up English retail and service industrys’ – clothes shopping and bar hopping!

It is great to see and nice that the bonds formed last term, socially, have been maintained and enhanced into this new term.