To be or not to be, that is the question for management.
Who say you can’t be an eggscellent manager or a leader?
In professor Kurpis’s class everyone is a manger, everyone can be a leader.
All you need is a positive vision, a strong motivation, a solid determination, a desire of inspiration, and an innovated mind.
You can mange yourself, your team, your pizza store, your organization, your corporation or even your country (kingdom).
If Hamlet had taken this management course, perhaps he won't lose the name of action.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Evaluation of the "Blog"
Professor’s Goal 1, 2:
I think the blog assignments are helpful to understand management process. However, communication wise, I think it is not that great because I still don’t know many people in the class. I know their names from the comments they left but I have no idea who they are and how they look like. If it were not for the requirement of responding, I won’t bother to comment at all. Benefits, I think some comments are helpful, some are not, and some are basically repeating what I said. Some people didn’t put much effort in replying a comment because some of the blog entries were really long, longer than a 3 page essay. It is hard to read everything and try to reply a comment that actually reflects on the post.
I do agree that it has been a great encouragement for us to think about the class activities we did, rather than just put it behind after a while, not knowing exactly the point of doing those activities. Yes the blog has been effectively getting me to think and share my perceptions about what we did in class, so professor Kurpis has accomplished these goals.
Goal 3:
I did not know that we have to reply Professor’s posts until recently, but I did read about two of the blogs he posted before, and they were interesting. Not directly related to management but they are very thoughtful, get me to think about how I would react if I were in those situations. I think this kind of interaction between students and professors should be practiced more in Baruch, because from what I experienced in the past, I get the feeling that professors don’t really care about their students. It is good that they are teaching us the rules and principles of business, but it is better to provide more understanding of our culture and motivate us to think beyond business.
Goal 4:
It has definitely been a great way for students to easily manage and control 20% of their grade that was not test related. I have seen some blog entries with only two paragraphs and it still count so it is an easy homework assignment.
Did I understand the degree to which the test anxieties could be offset by appropriate attention to your blog?-NO
Goal 5:
Do you plan on continuing to post your thoughts or ideas about school, work, career, life on your blog after this class has ended? -Not really, unless I have time but even if I do I don’t think people in this class would have time to read about it.
So overall I think this “blog assignment” is a very unique, even though I have done a similar type of online assignment for my writing class in the past, but this is more interesting. I feel like this is really for myself rather than for the management class, although all the topics are related to management, but everything in that blog is all about me. Value…I think it motivates me to approach learning more.
I think the blog assignments are helpful to understand management process. However, communication wise, I think it is not that great because I still don’t know many people in the class. I know their names from the comments they left but I have no idea who they are and how they look like. If it were not for the requirement of responding, I won’t bother to comment at all. Benefits, I think some comments are helpful, some are not, and some are basically repeating what I said. Some people didn’t put much effort in replying a comment because some of the blog entries were really long, longer than a 3 page essay. It is hard to read everything and try to reply a comment that actually reflects on the post.
I do agree that it has been a great encouragement for us to think about the class activities we did, rather than just put it behind after a while, not knowing exactly the point of doing those activities. Yes the blog has been effectively getting me to think and share my perceptions about what we did in class, so professor Kurpis has accomplished these goals.
Goal 3:
I did not know that we have to reply Professor’s posts until recently, but I did read about two of the blogs he posted before, and they were interesting. Not directly related to management but they are very thoughtful, get me to think about how I would react if I were in those situations. I think this kind of interaction between students and professors should be practiced more in Baruch, because from what I experienced in the past, I get the feeling that professors don’t really care about their students. It is good that they are teaching us the rules and principles of business, but it is better to provide more understanding of our culture and motivate us to think beyond business.
Goal 4:
It has definitely been a great way for students to easily manage and control 20% of their grade that was not test related. I have seen some blog entries with only two paragraphs and it still count so it is an easy homework assignment.
Did I understand the degree to which the test anxieties could be offset by appropriate attention to your blog?-NO
Goal 5:
Do you plan on continuing to post your thoughts or ideas about school, work, career, life on your blog after this class has ended? -Not really, unless I have time but even if I do I don’t think people in this class would have time to read about it.
So overall I think this “blog assignment” is a very unique, even though I have done a similar type of online assignment for my writing class in the past, but this is more interesting. I feel like this is really for myself rather than for the management class, although all the topics are related to management, but everything in that blog is all about me. Value…I think it motivates me to approach learning more.
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