{"id":26,"date":"2014-11-09T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T21:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/?p=26"},"modified":"2014-11-09T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T21:58:25","slug":"26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/2014\/11\/09\/26\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Branson is an icon I inspire about and maybe one of the most influential humans\u00a0in the world. His blog is a direct link to his personal life and career as well to other successful entrepreneurs. Such insight can be used as a tool for\u00a0young entrepreneurs and students like myself. What I find most interesting and useful about Virgin&#8217;s\u00a0blog is the section for entrepreneurs. This section is very relate able to the content we learn in comm 101. For instance: corporate culture, innovation, marketing strategies and start ups are all shared concepts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/9e\/Virgin.svg\/1151px-Virgin.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most interesting post I have read is by Joel Runyon who wrote\u00a0about creating your own corporate culture and to abandon the stereotypical culture of starting at &#8220;8:00 am sharp&#8221; as he describes it. Culture is the first factor I take in consideration when I apply for a job or when I was applying for university and I bet the majority of the world does as well. In the future\u00a0I would like to work in an environment similar to that of Google&#8217;s where\u00a0promotion of creativity and innovation is the corporate culture. This dream\u00a0seems to be\u00a0very large and far\u00a0ahead of me. Richard Branson once said <span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cDream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges, you then have to catch up with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source and quotes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgin.com\/entrepreneur\/how-to-kiss-corporate-goodbye-and-create-your-own-culture\">http:\/\/www.virgin.com\/entrepreneur\/how-to-kiss-corporate-goodbye-and-create-your-own-culture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/9e\/Virgin.svg\/1151px-Virgin.svg.png\">http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/9e\/Virgin.svg\/1151px-Virgin.svg.png<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Branson is an icon I inspire about and maybe one of the most influential humans\u00a0in the world. His blog is a direct link to his personal life and career as well to other successful entrepreneurs. Such insight can be used as a tool for\u00a0young entrepreneurs and students like myself. What I find most interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/grahamhand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}