Posted by: Angela Marin Betancourt on June 19, 2020
With this phrase in mind, I decided to start my journey in March 2019. My new job title for one year was going to be a part-time postgrad student and a part-time world traveller. With the absolute conviction that the things I was about to learn and the places I was about to see were […]
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Posted by: Vlad Sarca on March 1, 2019
Aristotle said that courage is the virtue that enables all other virtues, and as an entrepreneur, it is important to show a lot of courage but to balance it with temperance. At the age of 24, I incorporated my first business, EGV Recruitment, which was active in medical recruitment. We expanded it internationally after one […]
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Posted by: Hanif Sangi on October 11, 2018
The expedition of senior managers from around the globe for Post Graduate Diploma in Organizational Leadership at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School did come to a finale in the month of October 2018. Today, I’m sharing my reflections from the Module 4 and reiterating some thoughts from previous modules to emphasize the overall […]
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Posted by: Terry Prior on May 16, 2018
After completing the rigorous application process and subsequently finding out that I had been accepted into the Diploma of Organisational Leadership, the extent of what I had signed up for slowly started to sink in. It is natural at times for everyone to have some degree of self-doubt, and as a ‘very’ mature aged student […]
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Posted by: Hanif Sangi on May 2, 2018
Have you wondered about the life and study in Oxford during the Spring? Today I am sharing my experiences and lessons learned from the Module 2 of our course that took place in April 2018. After nearly two months of being away from Oxford, the executives who are part of the Post-Graduate Diploma in Organizational […]
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Posted by: Bob Satawake on April 30, 2018
Returning to Oxford for Module 2 was filled with anxiety and mystery unlike my initial journey. My first sojourn to Oxford was filled with excitement and a sense of accomplishment of having been accepted to this prestigious institution. I now faced the initial assessment after having experienced Module 1 and spending five short weeks at […]
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Posted by: Naiole Cohen Dos Santos on April 24, 2018
The application process was long and in the middle of it I ended up losing my password for the application, but long story short, I applied, and got accepted. Uff! A year ago, not even in my wildest dreams could I imagine that I was going through a formal exam in one of the most […]
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Posted by: Ayesha Mahwish on April 11, 2018
While knocking away letters on my laptop seated on the upper deck of this A380 aircraft bound towards Abu Dhabi, it is very easy to loose sense of time. My flow is interrupted and I am asked to switch off my laptop and mobile device in preparation for take-off. It is now that I have […]
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Posted by: Hanif Sangi on April 9, 2018
Have you ever sat with leaders from more than 30 countries during a course? Do you know what it is like to visit the prestigious Oxford University? Have you imagined the value a post-graduate diploma at Saïd Business School brings you? Are you a member of the United States Military and wondering if you can […]
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Posted by: David Halliwell on February 7, 2018
They say you should never go back. Certainly José Mourinho, twice the manager of philosophy Professor Mark Wrathall’s beloved Chelsea FC, would agree. Second time round, it just didn’t work out for him. But would it for me? 30 years after I first arrived at Oxford train station suitcase in hand, to study French and […]
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