You can't always get what you want

I dithered giving this post a title. It was either going to be 'Happy 200th' cause this is blogpost number 200 on this blog, or 'Floating on a cloud' since that represents my mood best now, or 'You can't always get what you want', which seems to go with the musical reference-title I had on the last post. And I figured that a little consistency might do this blog a world of good, so I went with the Stones.

Today was a good day, making me feel like I'm floating on a cloud. The day was packed from early morning to late at night, yet I didn't really feel rushed (you know that really calm feeling of being in a flow, even though you're really busy with 10 different things?). I had two great meetings, one of which released the full force of the creative internet juices, and the other sparked some thoughts for the Understanding Entrepreneurial Management idea that I pitched (and that I'm happy to report a small team of us will try and get business plan ready).

Not all things are going to plan though. The two jobs I applied for? Not even an interview... So I'm still hunting for a job (if any of the readers happen to have an interest project for the summer lying round, something with brand management or innovation or new product development or web 2.0 techonologies: gimme a shout!), as are a number of my colleagues. Most jobs in what LBS calls 'Industry' (everything not-consulting and not-banking) come in this term.

Last post I talked about a book that we use for our UEM course and that I really like, I feel obliged to talk about another that I read over the weekend which really sparked a lot of thoughts and was an enjoyable read. It's Tom Kelley's 'Ten Faces of Innovation', about different personas involved in successfully innovating. I can highly recommend it.

So here's a toast (with the Pisco sour from last week on the photo at the top left) to the 200th post of this blog. Never thought I'd write 200 posts. And that there'd still be readers at number 200!