Still no takers on my offer for Leadership mentoring. I suppose I placed this in the wrong public forum. I'm trying to figure out a way to do this properly. I considered adding a monetary incentive, but I believe I'm going to attract the wrong kind of subjects with extrinsic motivation. I wouldn't be making ...
Category Archives: MBA
MBA: Leadership Journal – Delay of gratification
There's a thought that keeps running in my mind when I read about delaying of gratification and leadership and then I look at the different life situations of different people I begin to see that their life, in cases where its what I would consider 'worse' than mine, can be attributed in large part to ...
MBA: Leadership Journal
[I did a leadership journal for one of my courses. Lots of fun - Actually, the most fun assignment so far]Monday, January 15, 2007 - 3:30 PMGreat idea for my Leadership journal. I will place an ad on Craigslist or somewhere similar and advertise ...
MBA: Managing People – Integration Paper #3
[Integration Paper]Before diving into Vecchio’s treatment of leadership, my concept of leadership was more black and white. My understanding was that a leader exudes Team Management leadership as someone in a 9,9 position in Robert Blake and Jane Morton’s Managerial Grid. Recognizing that leadership can take many other forms is valuable. However, it ...
MBA: Discussion Post
I believe a critical skill is the courage to try to go beyond your limits; I've seen it time and time again: Leaders take on seemingly impossible mountains of responsibility, yet they get it done... Mostly. Here is when another critical skill comes into play: "Failing gracefully". We all miss the mark every now and ...
MBA: Managing People – Integration Paper #2
[Integration Paper]Operant conditioning and OB Mod was a fascinating topic for me. Schedules of reinforcement to avoid behavior extinction brought into light the modus operandi of literally thousands of events and things that motivate people and shape our behavior. I carried the book example on gambling and ...
MBA: Discussion Post
[Keep me ticking - I posted what rewards are important to me for a 'job well done']I'd say time off is my most important reward, right on par with increased formal responsibilities.
Uptime
[Chatting about computing system availability]Beware what you ask for... 95% uptime still means 18.25 full days of unavailability per year.Here are some common numbers:Uptime Percentage and Total Annual Downtime99% 3.65 days99.9% 8.75 hours99.99% 52.5 minutes99.999% 5.25 minutes
MBA: Managing People – Integration Paper #1
Here is the first Integration Paper I had to write for my MBA. I hope I have improved over time.I asked the University's administration if I could post these on a blog and while they didn't have any specific guidelines, two common sense rules came out: Only post things I wrote myself, and ...
MBA: Discussion Post – Muslims and prayer times
[Had a discussion around how to handle Muslim holidays and prayer times across different countries]Daniel Pipes wrote an interesting article on Muslims in America, accessible here: http://www.danielpipes.org/article/358It glimpses at some situations in the workplace and some point examples of good as well as bad resolution.I do believe that life is ...
