Going the Distance: Business Lessons from Endurance Sports
Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Jason Chan in Life, Strategy
For many people sports is a way to unwind and take your mind off work. Taking yourself away from work, even for short periods, can give you a breath of fresh thinking and renewed perspective and focus. This is particularly true if you’ve been working on a long, complex problem. Maybe this is why so [...]
Breadth vs. Depth
Posted on 22. Mar, 2009 by Jason Chan in Strategy
In the first class of business school, my accounting prof said “you guys will go a mile wide and an inch deep” regarding the amount of material we would cover and how detailed we would get. We slogged through 2 years and upon graduation, most of us moved onto pretty specialized fields in finance, consulting, [...]