TIGNUM BLOG. Guest blog by David Stevens an MBA student at Thunderbird School of Global Management (#1 International Business School 2010 Financial Times). David is the former President of the Student Government Association and a member of the Thunderbird Tignum Sustainable High Performance Club. When our team of five travelled to Vietnam for a five-week consulting project, we knew there would be many challenges: the language barrier, different cultural customs, the pressure of completing a bang-out project in only five weeks. As a team of MBA candidates (plus one newly-minted MBA), we felt we had the tools to tackle those tasks. Four Steps to Sustainable Peak Performance – Do More and Feel Better with Scott Peltin. The Performance Guru. Strategic Performance Management: Strategic Balanced Scorecards.