making better decisions - 1. introduction
I’ve been thinking for a while about the process of making decisions. A decision is any situation where we need to select between two or more options....
negotiating over an orange
ten. how do you divide an orange? One of the subjects I took during my MBA that was the most valuable was the elective on negotiation. There was a lot to...
Adventures in strange acronyms - EBITDA
nine. financial acronyms - EBITDA Last week when sending the newsletter about CAPM (capital asset pricing model), a friend told me that it was a term they'd...
how can you tell which of two options is better?
8. Making sense of risk and return. Out of all the MBA subjects I did, the one that I found least familiar was Corporate Finance - I don't have a background...
what is the anchor point of your career?
7. What is most important to you in your career? This one I'd forgotten about entirely, again from Executive Blueprint. In figuring out what to work on next,...
Are you trying to solve the right kind of problem?
six. How to identify the complexity of problem you’re solving. This week I went to a two-day training course (that’s three months absence from the halls of...
writing and then rewriting your goals
five. how to write goals that will stretch you but not make you despair. I was talking to a friend this week about the performance-review cycle, and the...
is the world ready for your idea?
four. An insight into whether your idea is going to work or not. There are a few concepts that keep coming up again and again in the MBA. An MBA is, in...
do you ever think back over what worked, and what didn't?
three. How to have reflective practice as a manager If your company has an annual performance review cycle, you probably take some time in the lead-up to...
what does it take to make changes
two. How to make changes One of the big challenges presented by studying later in life is the increasing challenge of making changes in the way you live....
the big picture
one. The Big Picture. At the end of 2021, after four years of part-time study, I finished my MBA. I'd wanted to study an MBA for many years, so I was glad to...