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I am a certified manager. What?

I completed my Management Skills Development class for my MBA recently and thought that it was pretty straight forward. No crazy or sleepless nights studying, even my wife commented on how much nicer I was during this class then Accounting.

I can’t comment on how my classmates faired, but I feel that my general observations is that most didn’t enjoy it. Too much introspection? Can’t say for sure. I found the class very enjoyable as it helped me better understand from the mangers perspective the characteristics that motivate individuals and teams.

But I am well into my ‘IT a competitive advantage’ class and looking forward to it!

It’s been a while now since my last posting… I must say that most of that is due to the Accounting class being so hard for me.

If I were to hazard a guess, I must have spent at least 15 hours each week studying Accounting for four months. It was a long haul but it was worth it in the end. I was able to scrap out a B+ which is really all I could have hoped for.

Then it’s been on to Management Skills Development which I was kinda hoping would be a bird course and let me recover from Accounting and enjoy the summer. Well, one can wish for things… can’t they.

Three assignments, 9 articles critiqued and 800+ pages of reading later I an on the home stretch and completing my project paper. One thing I was lucky to avoid in university was cramming papers at the last minute, but I quickly learned with my current lifestyle that the only way to complete these papers is to focus and muscle thought with 8 hours of straight writing.

Back to prepping for tomorrows cram writing session. Wish me luck.

Completed my Financial Services Marketing class successfully (end of January). Even received a better mark then I did in Global Financial systems which was a bit surprising too me.

The marketing course consisted of the following. Two assignments due prior to the class starting, the group project and then the intensive week material.

Submitted my marketing first assignment this afternoon. I figure I must of spent around 15 – 18 hours on it and I don’t feel very good about it.

The assignment was to understand ethics and social responsibility in business and in relation to finanancial institutions. I know when I see someone not acting ethically or with social responsiblty, but I found it very hard to write down what ethics and SR meant.

I wish everyone a merry christmas and I hope not to work too much on this during my holiday.

Marketing Management at Amazon.ca

What do I think about marketing? To tell you the truth, I am not really looking forward to this course. The first assignment asks to discuss the ethical and social responsibilies of financial institutions in today’s market.

This is the class textbook (see above). I think that it is a terribly designed book. I can’t yet comment on the content, but the font is in a dark grey colour against a cloud white page. This doesn’t have the high contrast that I am used to in novels/magazines… Also, the high light is a hot pink like colour. Again very hard to read.

Wish me luck on assignment 1…