The University of Liverpool launched their "University of Liverpool in the USA" nonprofit foundation today. Nice video on their website. That's where I got my MBA - I just wish I could have gotten some of the cool Harry Potter accent with it too. Every time I try to ...
Walden University now has a partnership with the University of Liverpool, where I did my MBA... Sent me an e-mail. These guys are probably the only game in town for mostly-online Ph.D. The real ones, not the "University of Desktop Publishing" style of degrees. They give Liverpool Master's graduates 20% ...
Oh. Yeah.. Another year went by! I'm back. I was super-busy with my MBA classes. I'm simply DELIGHTED that on Saturday 19th at 8PM central time I submitted my approved dissertation. I'm waiting for a grade but that's all - At this point I know its going to be either A or A+... I did ...
What a present - a plan for self-improvement in leadership!I'm going back on my notes from January 31st of my Dark Side traits according to Hogan Assessment Systems (Hughes, Ginnet, Curphy, 2006 pp 169-173). There is a change now. While reading my company's leadership and management pages I came upon a ...
The lessons on leadership we have been studying are beginning to have a profound effect in how I think about everyday events. For example I was just watching a cartoon titled "Barbie: Rapunzel" and I was watching as the "evil mouse king" was yelling at a servant for bringing him bad news. I could her ...
Lets analyze my own Dark Side traits according to Hogan Assessment Systems.Excitable: I don't have mood swings or emotional outbursts. I'm very controlled in that area. However I do like new things and do find it difficult to persist on projects. Curiously enough this is one of my MBO goals for ...
Somebody sends me a magazine article. A major insurance company is talking about their wonderful solution. I check the database to see if it was something I worked on, so I can pass it along to my management as an accomplishment. Checking database. Its actually a customer that a peer of mine managed. The guy ...
I've been so busy these past months that I just don't watch TV. I haven't sat down and watched TV without the aid of a DVR in a very long time.This means I don't get the commercials as much and my news all come online.Today I was stuck in an emergency room and I ...
Last week I went to a meeting with two attorneys. We were sitting in a meeting room at the courthouse. I noticed how the other attorney was dressed and behaved. He showed signs of nervousness more than signs of readiness - his coat was buttoned, his gaze was distant (it would fix on inanimate objects ...
Looking at the Five-Factor Model of Personality on page 163 of Hughes, Ginnet, Curphy I see the dimension of "Adjustment" and the behavior of "I remain calm in pressure situations". I've been surprising myself in this dimension over the past eighteen months. An extreme example was something that happened on December 28th, 2005. I had ...
