Blog Entries for Micheal Collins

Don't be the best, be Unique

micheal.collins@colkum.com — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100

There's a great scene in that Phantom Menace movie, where Liam Neeson and Ewan MacGregor are whizzing through the sea in their Jedi submarine craft and an enormous antediluvian fish with fangs is chasing after them.

MacGregor agitatedly refers to the impending disaster while Neeson blithely seems to ignore it, and maintains a posture of perfect serenity.

Then, just as the maw of the mighty beast is about to snap , a gigantic undersea Tyrannosaurus Rex (what else?) moves in fro [...]

Choosing an MBA (I) - does the BRAND matter?

micheal.collins@colkum.com — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:00:00 +0100

We're kicking off this series of posts on choosing an MBA by addressing what is, from our perspective, one of the least well understood aspects of choosing an MBA, namely going for "ranking" or general school "brand".

Our view is that both these characteristics are NOT the top considerations for a person choosing their next steps in executive education, however we realise that they can be used as a metric for how the whole experience works out for you, depending [...]