The 3 Ms
Sports Management Prof. Eduardo Fernandez-Cantelli talks about what running really means for him: Motivation, Meditation and Metamorphosis.
A lot of people run as a way to keep fit, but only few are able to extract daily life lessons from running. This is exactly the case of Management Sports Professor, Eduardo Fernandez-Cantelli. He says that when he talks about running he talks basically about the three Ms:
Motivation
Meditation
Metamorphosis
When he talks about these 3Ms he has in mind the book “What I talk about when I talk about running” by Haruki Murakami. If you remember well, there was a short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver, from which Murakami took the title from. Bear in mind he has translated Carver´s works into Japanese. Nobody though has stablished yet what´s the relation between love and running. You wanna try it?
Prof. Fernandez-Cantelli says that there are three reasons to explain failure: Not enough training, not enoug training and not enough training. I really admire his determination and endurance.
You just gotta ride it!!!
Entrepreneurship Prof.Peter Bryant in a roller coaster talks about the ups & downs of entrepreneurship.
As Entrepreneurship Prof. Peter Bryant puts it “Change and I have a relationship”. Years ago he studied philosophy and history at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. Then he shifted gear to a number of management roles in different industries, including Qantas Airways, Deloitte and A&B Venture Capital, plus being responsible for the creation of a number of spin-off companies. Two of these spin-offs were successfully launched on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), and another attracted early stage venture capital investment. But his relationship with Change was far from over, and in late 2006 he transformed into a professor. Allow me to quote now a young poet, Charles Olsen, from New Zealand, not very far from Prof. Bryant´s homeland, Australia:
It´s the way things go
that somehow changes all I know
of the world I see, that bring us
closer than I never thought we could be.
That´s what it is. Once you start a conversation with Peter, you´ll be impressed by his knowledge, his great advice, and the kind of person he is. You just gotta try it!!!
After the shooting of this video on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, we had lunch together. It looked though that I had not had enough of his company because I asked him to join me in the evening to go to a nice live music club.
It´s the way things go…the way things go.
An American in Madrid
I love Vincent Minnelli’s films. And I always have in mind films like Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Bad and the Beautiful, and An American in Paris…Doing this short video “An American in Madrid” with Professor of Managerial Economics, Gayle Allard, is the smallest hommage I could pay to such a great film director. In the process of preparing the video I also discovered a fine car we make here in Spain: The Hurtan Albaycin. Just beautiful.
Boxing for finance
I met Prof. Inigo Colomo at a Financieros sin Fronteras (FsF) event which, to be honest, I wasn’t pleased to attend because I had had a long day. When we shook hands nothing particularly struck me about him. Then, I had a second look to him when I happened to sit in front of him just before the conference began. Something about his physique and the way he held himself revealed that there was more to him than at first glance. So, we begun to talk…and the way things go, we ended up shooting this video. He is the most unassuming, charming person on earth. He’s also an amateur boxer. And he takes amazing photos.
As he says in the video, if you think boxing is hard, try raising capital for a social endeavor. FsF wants foster micro productivity activities by supporting companies that aim to create sustainable value for companies and their environment in developing countries.
@edans breaks the ice
As Chinese artist Ai Weiwei showed by dropping a Han Dinasty Urn, not only is China changing, but everything is changing… or is going to change. Here in this video, Enrique Dans, Professor of information technologies and systems,talks not about technology itself, but about how the use of technology affects our lives on a personal, corporate and societal level.
Prof. Dans says that “Technology is politics by other means…” a play on the quote from Carl von Clausewitz. “Technology changes the way we do politics”, he adds.
