The Story Of The Present

You Cannot Change The Past, But You Can Learn From It.

When The Same Situation Arises, You Can Do Things Differently.

"Success" Is Becoming Who You Are Capable Of Being And Progressing Toward Worthwhile Goals.

Each Of Us Defines For Ourselves What It Means To Be Successful.

Business Statistics and Financial Accounting as starters...

"Free" textbooks ... "business statistics" and "Cases in financial reporting", were picked up from the bookshop. Just realized that the bookshop is now run by Commerical Press, no longer Swindon.

Experiential Learning Program out of the Xbox - stretched the limit

High V, Giant Ladder, Hit the ball and Balanced beam are the 4 excellent ELP games which Microsoft can never put them inside Xbox.

What Doesn't Kill You Will Make You Stronger

Survived the Residential Program ...
First day: worked till 1am
Second day: 7:15am to 2am
Last day started earlier than the sunrise... very tough.

see KxCracker team at http://kxcracker.blogspot.com

Despite the daunting outlook [of the 5kg readings] ...

... progress turns out quite well in the past 2 weeks.

Give people plenty of leeway to devise their own means – Visionary Leaders

Daniel Goleman distinguishes 6 styles of leadership - Visionary, Coaching, Affiliative, Democratic, Pacesetting and Commanding.
Leadership styles are like the array of clubs in a golf pro’s bag. In a game, the pro picks the clubs based on the demand of the shot. Sometimes he has to ponder but usually it is fairly instinctively. The pro senses the challenges ahead, swiftly pull out the right tool and elegantly swing it. That’s how high impact leaders operate, too.

IS MANAGEMENT A PROFESSION ?

• Alec Horniman, Univ. of Virginia - "a profession has a set of standards that are defined, recognized, and acknowledged which implies the right way for the profession to be practiced"
• C. William Thomas, Professor at Baylor Univ. - people who practice in a profession are "franchised by the public to perform a particular service"
• Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice - a profession is an occupation that is "pursued largely for others" and for which "financial return is not the accepted measure of success."
• David Vogel, UC Berkeley - "management is not a profession and is unlikely to become one." If management were a profession, managers "would not be allowed to practice unless they were certified, but how could something like this be enforced? Would this mean that Bill Gates - who did not even graduate college - would not have been allowed to start or grow Microsoft?"

Case study - this is not fiction

Case study - this is not fiction.
(Chapters 1,2,3,4,6 were done.)

• "By putting oneself in the shoes of various decision makers, it is rehearsing the future career."
• "Cases give you the chance to practice the art as well as the science of management in a laboratory setting, with little corporate and personal risk involved."