welcom new year
Well 2007 is has arrived and my first residential week has been completed for the MBA program. Very interesting and challenging events took place this week, ones that I will not forget anytime soon. Some of the highlights:
- Filmed a movie titled "Living the Tango" as a team building exercise. We had access to a professional Dutch television crew. Our film was rather artsy for a MBA students, but the creativity is what allowed us to win best film.
- Lectures from amazing professors, ex.
ok must go my taxi is here... later
As I was saying:
-Lectures from amazing professors from Erasmus and U M business schools.
Particularly the lectures on Trade Negotions were incredibly interesting to me.
Learning the particulars on what defines a most favored nation status and what GATT is all about anyway.
-Lobbying in the EU was another great session.
Here we had a case study present and we role play in the political market as either the EU Commission, the Union, Incumbents, or the Suppliers, the case study was on liberalization of the railway system in the EU.
- Numerous discussions on leadership and influencing styles and connecting with your audience.
Indeed the group in the program is close and the I think that is what makes the program a real success is the relationships that are formed during the learning process even at a distance of 6000 miles!!
Indeed that is all business is about, relationships with people. Simple.
So I fly from afar to learn about simple basic stuff... and pay for this out of pocket and live in the village to compensate my living expenses...hmmmm... so what is next???
One of the discussion was comparrison of qualities of a manager and then of a leader. It was ironic, but after that discussion my friend Mark and I were, as a joke, calling each other managers in a derogatory sense. Thus the use of the word manager became to mean something negative.... thought that was funny. We all want to be leaders!!!
- Filmed a movie titled "Living the Tango" as a team building exercise. We had access to a professional Dutch television crew. Our film was rather artsy for a MBA students, but the creativity is what allowed us to win best film.
- Lectures from amazing professors, ex.
ok must go my taxi is here... later
As I was saying:
-Lectures from amazing professors from Erasmus and U M business schools.
Particularly the lectures on Trade Negotions were incredibly interesting to me.
Learning the particulars on what defines a most favored nation status and what GATT is all about anyway.
-Lobbying in the EU was another great session.
Here we had a case study present and we role play in the political market as either the EU Commission, the Union, Incumbents, or the Suppliers, the case study was on liberalization of the railway system in the EU.
- Numerous discussions on leadership and influencing styles and connecting with your audience.
Indeed the group in the program is close and the I think that is what makes the program a real success is the relationships that are formed during the learning process even at a distance of 6000 miles!!
Indeed that is all business is about, relationships with people. Simple.
So I fly from afar to learn about simple basic stuff... and pay for this out of pocket and live in the village to compensate my living expenses...hmmmm... so what is next???
One of the discussion was comparrison of qualities of a manager and then of a leader. It was ironic, but after that discussion my friend Mark and I were, as a joke, calling each other managers in a derogatory sense. Thus the use of the word manager became to mean something negative.... thought that was funny. We all want to be leaders!!!
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