Monthly Archives: April 2004

About risk

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

MBA Diner

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

Governing variables

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

Trails in net space

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

Argyris & Schön

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

The tax man (or woman) cometh

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

Writing, writing, writing

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

Starsky & Hutch

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

PhD Blogs

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.

PhD entries

I’ve set up a new (and rel­at­ively private) blog for all my PhD notes.

Moving on

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

Friday already

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