And here is this week’s “Friday Five”:http://www.fridayfive.org/ (Okay, I’ve recycled an old one, as there is no new F5). # *What’s the most daring thing you’ve ever done?* Daring or stupid? I’ve overtaken in dense fog. That was stupid. The car didn’t make it, but I got lucky. That taught me a lesson. # *What …
The “School of Business”:http://business.auckland.ac.nz/ held a diner at the “North Club”:http://www.northernclub.co.nz/ in celebration of this years completing MBAs (who graduate on Monday). I was happy to be there, both as an alum’ of the program (MBA’95) and because I taught on the intergrating stratgy course last year. There were MBAs there from every year. including …
I was reading Argyris’ _Double-loop learning, teaching, and research_ again today, and I was struck by his comment that: “Model I theory-in-use is composed of four governing variables: (a) to be in unilateral control; (b) strive to win and not lose; © suppress negative feelings; and (d) act rationally” (2002, p. 312). But what does …
I think I mentioned before that most people who run web sites are curious about the “source” of their visitors. Well here is an abreviated list of where people are coming from (This is jsut a lsit of the most popular launching points — no particular order). “Cecil”:http://cecil.auckland.ac.nz/interface/Announcement.aspx “Yahoo”:http://us.f126.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter “Xtra mail”:http://xtramail.xtra.co.nz/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+mobmain “Hotmail”:http://64.4.10.250/cgi-bin/linkrd “Firday Fives”:http://www.fridayfive.org/ “Someone …
I think this will be a long entry. I feel like there is a lot to write about. But perhaps, I’ll try and keep it brief. The ideas of Argyris and Schön are central to MGMT 301 ? it is, after all, called management theory and practice. Of the three recommend readings, one imparts the …
Some mail from the “IRD”:http://www.ird.govt.nz/ finally caught up with me. I was –a little– very surprised to find that that they felt I owed them about $7,700 in penalty tax, interest, etc. According to the tag line at the bottom of the statement, interest was accuring at $2.38 (which is about 11% — I wish …
The title of this is a pun on “work, work, work” said by “Mel Brooks”:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316/ in “Blazing saddles”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/. Of course he isn’t doing any really work — but I was. I chose to go into to school to write, and it’s been a really productive day. With now real distractions, or easy diversions, I just …
Well, I was wrong. “Kill Bill: Volume 2″:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/ isn’t on here yet. So instead we went and saw “Starsky & Hutch”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335438/. Nice touch having “David Soul”:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0815800/ and “Paul Michael Glaser”:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001274/ make cameo appearances. I didn’t recognise “Juliette Lewis”:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000496/ (who played Kitty) until I saw the end credits. Huggy Bear was played by Snoop Dogg (is …
I noteice that there are a lot of blogs out there (on the wild wild web) by people doing their PhD work. We’ll I guess I’m one of them now.
I’ve set up a new (and relatively private) blog for all my PhD notes.
I’m embarrassed by how few entries I have here – and I suspect that it is a reflection on my PhD progress (not a lot). So, the plan is to: * Make an entry everyday on what I’m doing with my PhD * Return to study and writing at school (at home I goof off …
And here is this week’s “Friday Five”:http://www.fridayfive.org/ (Okay, I’ve recycled an old one, as there is no new F5). # *What was the last song you heard?* Ya-Ya by Buckwheat Zydeco Ils sont Partis Band # *What were the last two movies you saw?* Girl with a pearl earing and Paycheck # *What were the …