I’ve had had a letter from the “Graduate Centre”:http://www.auckland.ac.nz/postgraduate/ that says I: bq. have satisfactorily completed the goals approved when you were initially registered. Accordingly your registration is confirmed. Yippee. I’m fully registered at last. Now to complete the _damn thing_. However, as I’ve said “elsewhere”:http://www.petersmith.org/blog/archives/2004/05/a-wake-up-call.html I need to ease back a little. As part …
*Yes* Because of Rochelle’s bereavement, I had the class mark themselves using a little table I’d prepared. I think the table did two things. Firstly, it helped to structure peoples comments a little, and secondly, because it explicit allowed only four attempts, it caused people to be less forthcoming with ‘off the cuff’ remarks. In …
A few Porterian quotes taken from: *Harfield, T. (1997). Strategic management and Michael Porter: A postmodern reading. _Electronic Journal of Radical Oranizational Theory, 4_(1).* bq. Competitive advantage is hardly a new subject. … marketing, production, control, finance, and many other activities in a firm have a role in competitive advantage. … Competitive advantage cannot be …
I’ve just finished reading: *Thompson, A. A., Strickland III, A. J., & Gamble, J. E., (2004). _Crafting and executing strategy: Text and readings_ (14th ed.). New York, McGraw-Hill.* The preface of this text books says it aimed at the senior-level or MBA student, and so I’m considering it as a replacement for MGMT 302 — …
For me, a good theory is one that does one or more of the following: # It allows one to predict what will happen, or # It describes (explains) why something has happened, or finally # It prescribes what one should do (this is a variation on 1 above). In general, as a practitioner, it …
I thought it would be interesting to see the progress that the class, as a whole, is making. The table below summarises the 1s, 2s, and 3s awarded each week. {color:red}_||Week 2|Week 3|Week 4|Week 5| |>. 1s|=. 20|=. 11|=. 14|=. 8| |>. 2s|=. 12|=. 14|=. 13|=. 12| |>. 3s|=. 2|=. 6|=. 3|=. 10| {color:green}=|Total|=. 34|=. …
I think it was Celeste who asked to see all the grades, so that she can compare her performance with the class average. However, since grades are, by nature, categorical, I feel an average is mathematically unsound, so here are the (sorted)grades for the class so that you can compare your position with everyone else. …
I’ve been exchanging a few emails with Richard “Tisdall”:http://www.tisdalls.co.nz/ regarding the ‘unreliable’ stepmeter, that I replaced. He has been concerned by the problem and very helpful in dealing with it. People sometimes complain that Kiwi’s don’t know how to _do_ customer service, but I think my experiences with Tisdalls shows that some Kiwis give outstanding …
Immediately after class, Chintaka and Howie started talking about the case together. I was impressed by the quality of their conversation, and said that it was a shame that it hadn’t happened like that in class ? and Howie pointed out that he did have his hand up when Chintaka was speaking but wasn’t ‘picked’. …
It’s the _glorious twelfth_, and that means it’s Lisa’s and mine wedding anniversary. So, we decided to have dinner at “Vinnies”:http://www.menus.co.nz/vinnies/ To whet our appetites, we had a glass of Bollinger (non vintage), and the savoury cones. I particular liked the ostrich carpaccio with Japanese pickles, and the truffled hummus was a close second. For …
I was talking with “Amit”:http://www.thereflectivepractitioner.org/armi/ yesterday, and he was saying that he keeps on journalling/blogging because it forces him to reflect on what he has done. I think, like me, he finds it hard to be reflective in “the moment”. No doubt a psychodramatist would refer to this a an example of the cultural conserve …
So, I say I *like* feedback, and yet I have _comments_ disabled. Hmm. I have a lot of good _reasons_ not to enable comments, but what is really going on. Oh it sounds a bit like that I want to: bq. (a) be in unilateral control; (b) strive to win and not lose; ==©== suppress …