It’s been three months since I last saw the doctor, so it was time for a check up today. My blood pressure is still high, but the Doc thinks its the ‘white coat effect’. I only have to see a Doctor, and that drives up my blood peruse. I get lower readings during my monthly …
I bought a new “pedometer/stepmeter”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/ps/archives/2004/07/19/a_new_toy_or_not a few weeks ago. Alas, the new one doesn’t do a good job. I finally figured out that it was under reporting by 20 to 50 per cent. i.e. it was missing as many as half of my steps. I’d dropped it a few times so I decided to take …
I brief, mentioned “elsewhere”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/ps/archives/2004/07/27/post_exec about teams seeking to deliberately sabotaging other teams. I don’t know if this happens in this “course”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/ps/archives/2004/03/08/mgmt_301 or not, but I was thinking about those comments when I read: *White, J., & Taft, S. (2004). Frameworks for teaching and learning business ethics with the global context: Background of ethical theories. _Journal …
I just received a brief email from a student asking how to prepare for Friday’s case. That really is a hard question to answer because I don’t know what the student knows about prepping a case. I could tell them all I know, but that probably wouldn’t be helpful as the student wouldn’t have an …
I’ve just received the lastest edition of the “Journal of Management Education”:http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=181, and there is an element of sychronicity about it. The first article is: *Cunliffe, A. L. (2004). On becoming a critically reflective practitioner. _Journal of Management Education, 28_(4), 407–426.* In this article, she writes about many of the things I’ve discussed today, or …
I’ve just opened the flood-gates “again”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/ps/archives/2004/03/09/opening_the_floodgates and sent out an email with the login details for Net Mike. One thing I’m “interested”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/ps/archives/2004/04/02/mikes_bikes_message_board in is the way in which people use the messaging board of Net Mike. I wonder how (or if) it will be used this time. Here I’m trying to make a deliberate link …
After the ‘exec’ meetings yesterday, the three of us (“DPE”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/ps/archives/2004/03/08/dpe) got together to talk about the teams we had seen during the morning. Despite that debriefing, it still takes me a long time to process what I have seen and heard, and to think about the _Learning journals_ that people have written. When we, DPE, …
After class today, a number of people came up to me and asked if the format of the class, in particular the type of questions I asked, would be the same each week. I think my opening question on the Telecom Case was something like, “In 1999 would you have bought shares in Telecom?” A …
Yesterday, in MGMT 101 — _organisationa and management_, I was laying out some of the territory that the class (and I, I suppose) will be covering in the coming weeks. For whatever reason[1], much of the course is structured around PLOC[2]; planning, leading, organising, and controlling. As I pointed out in class, this isn’t an …
I’ve just finished reading: *Augier, M., & Sarasvathy, S. D. (2004). Integrating evolution, cognition and design: Extending ?Simonian? perspectives to strategic organization. _Strategic Organization, 2_(2), 169–204.* The abstract is: bq. Several streams of research in strategic management and organisational theory build upon the early work of Herbert Simon. Yet, as content analyses of articles published …
As part of the course “MGMT 302″:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/ps/archives/2004/03/08/mgmt_301 student’s have to prepare a CV (well, complete a form that asks for some specific details) and get some _work experience_ using Solo Mike (aka Mike’s Bikes Advanced — Single Player). A few people seem to be having problems in raising their shareholder value (SHV) from about $9 …
And so semester two has started. I’ve quiet a heavy teach load on Mondays. From 9–12 I have _Management Theory & Practise (MGMT 301)_, after that the team has a debriefing meeting from 12–1, from 2–3 its _Business Policy & Strategy (MGMT 302), and finally I have _Organisations & Management (MGMT 101) from 5–6. It …