Monthly Archives: September 2013

thursday night – chairman

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Man.. i went from 100 mph to zero in only 24 hours.. After a whirlwind 4 days i spent this entire day sitting in my chair. Other than a short run with diane and dinner .. i think i only got up to pace on phone calls. .. ..  I think I saw only 7  people  today and tow of them only think they’re people.. What a contrast from the last few days of meetings. I really enjoyed the quiet and the ability to work uninterrupted.  I like this mix of working at home and face to face meetings.

hmm.. not easy to make news from an intensely uninteresting but peaceful day..

Oh.. i wanted to share this video I saw at the meeting…. pretty amazing

 

ok. that’s it for now.. more later

nite all. nite sam
-me

Wednesday night – ALT

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Hanging out at Laguardia on my way back to BTV after a good set of meetings down here in NY. I 2 days with the fellows and one day. today, with the Academy Leadership team.. Thats the 100 folks that form the core of the IBM Academy. It was great seeing all these folks..and even greater getting to work with them.. Face to face events like this restore old ties and make new ones…

 

Todays hilight was a very good conversation lead by our CEO Ginni R. She gave a really good overview about the state of the company and the things she wanted the academy to be working on. I was psyched that she called out a project that i’m working on with colleagues in the Netherlands .. (She also told me I could use a hairband 🙂 .. Here she is with the Acacemy pres and my buddy Rashik.

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We first heard from my good friend (and now boss) bernie

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Then from friend Susan.. who took over the academy when bernie came to my group  (she’s awesome !) IMG_4686

 

Here’s Susan and Rashik giveing an award to my friend Romelia from Dallas. IMG_4688

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My freinds Bob, george . Mark and I  gave a panel discussion on ‘productive misbehavior’;.. (or at least thats what I chose to concentrate on 🙂

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Heres my budy Mohan.. one of my oldest freinds in the academy

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I’m coing home with lots of stuff to do.. and many more things to think about.. thats a pretty good take for three days…

 

OK.. gotta run..

more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

 

 

Tuesday night – old friends

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Not much to report here because spent the entire day in work meetings here in Armonk. Really good getting together with my friends in the fellows and Academy community. I got more day job work done here In one day face-to-face that I sometimes get done in a week of telephone conversations. Couple of the conversations were during long fast walks outside in the beautiful weather. It doesn't get better than that.

I really enjoy spirited debate among my friends… You know you're good friends when you can disagree energetically and still be smiling!

 

Tonight was purely social… Seeing friends I rarely get to see from all over the world. It was really special.

Okay… Got to get some sleep… Tomorrow the boss is coming to talk to us. That should be interesting.
Night all, night Sam
– Me

 

Monday night – fellow fellows

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Greetings from the ibm learning center. Im here for a couple of days meeting with my fellow fellows from ibm. We get together every so often to connect and work on problems that cross organizational boundaries. I love these folks.. Each of them is an expert in some aspect of our companies business.. And with a company this size.. That makes for a pretty wide range of interests and experiences. . We have physicists, mathematicians, metallurgists , computer architects, circuit nerds, software folks, and business geeks.. I dont know where else youd get that kind of a mix under one corporate umbrella…

 

Heres a panel with this years new crop

The funny thing about this bunch is that many of them .. Most of them actually.are a whole lot of fun. Most of them have kept a playful spirit to their work and have remained excited and creative about their work even though most of us have at least 30 years with the company.. And some with 40… And even two with more than 50 years with the company !!

What a place..

It makes you want to dump out all the candy dishes and spell ibm

 

Note all, nite sam

-me