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SKILLS A TRADITIONAL $200K MBA WILL NEVER TEACH YOU

Navigating the Perpetual Job Market — A Life-Long Journey Dear reader, since the Fall 2022 Hap Klopp and I have been conducting a Master Class Series on topics which are not readily taught in traditional business school programs. Each Master … Continue reading

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Higher Education Enterprise Faces Multiple Challenges in the Post COVID-19 Era

The race to meet the current and future demands of the new digital learners The global pandemic has thrown education and educators into the ‘deep end’ in a ‘sink or swim’ dilemma. Capturing successfully the multiple opportunities uncovered by the … Continue reading

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My Christmas Message

ENGLISH VERSION (ver abajo version en Espanol) Dear Friends, we have certainly experienced contrasting emotions for most of 2020 and 2021. Our lives have been disrupted “uninstalling” many of our “installed” habits. It seems impossible that 2022 could be like … Continue reading

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Open Letter to Mr. Elon Musk

Tiburon, California (USA), November 1st, 2021 Dear Elon, Let me preface my remarks by explaining that I am an experienced technology executive. I was Corporate VP for Motorola’s Latin American operations, was involved in two successful startups (one that IPO’d), … Continue reading

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The Post-COVID Education Disruption

Please include @baradello if you share this note Change vectors were seeking an “excuse” to disrupt the Education Sector, and…COVID-19 provided the perfect one! “We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, … Continue reading

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65% of students dislike virtual learning environments necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

For immediate release, August 3rd, 2020 This is a copy of the press released today of the research work conducted with my teaching partners Hap Klapp and Paul Campbell under our brand the 3 Amigos. A survey released in June … Continue reading

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Coming Out a Winner in the Wake of the COVID–19 Global Reset:

A Latin America Perspective of the Venture Capital (VC) Industry The success of the VC industry depends largely on the ability of General Partners (GPs) to invest in start–ups and exit years later at great multiples (buy low/sell high). This … Continue reading

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An Optimistic View of the Shelter–In–Place Order: 8 Weeks Later

I don’t think I truly understood what the future had in store when I published my optimistic blogpost at the beginning of the lockdown (March 17, 2020) in all San Francisco Bay Area counties in Northern California. Almost two months … Continue reading

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COVID-19 A Massive Global Reset? Part 2

Capturing the Opportunities after the 2020 Pandemic “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste” The objective of this second blogpost (Part 2 of 3), is to recognize that the on-going COVID-19 crisis and the ensuing global recession, will create … Continue reading

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COVID-19 A Massive Global Reset? Part 1

Capturing the Opportunities after the 2020 Pandemic “Luck favors the prepared mind….” Louis Pasteur The purpose of this blogpost is to look beyond the headlights of this ongoing global crisis and the global recession that is certain to follow and … Continue reading

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