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I haven’t really said much thus far about how my experience
with LSU is going. Primarily because in
all truthfulness there’s really not much to say at this point. I just started my 3rd lesson out
of 16 today and have not yet taken a proctored exam. The lessons focus on 1 chapter of the
textbook each so with 16 ...
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During a brief discussion with my brother this weekend I
came to an epiphany, there is a difference between “Organizational Leadership”
and “Leadership” as an academic study. I
know the two sound the same and there are many similarities but the two are
entirely different in their approach and end game. ...
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Tonight I took an online refresher course for my job. To say that the course was tedious, dry and convoluted would only be throwing sugar on how I really feel about it. Honestly they made this “thing” into a 4 hour block of reading poorly put together case examples and little video scenarios that look like they were ...
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I didn't post last night because I quite honestly was not in an objective frame of mind. I was actually quite upset by my final grade on my final paper in Organizational Leadership. You see, my final paper was scored at a 72 percent which since it was 25 percent of my overall grade, lowered my final score for the class to an 89 percent. If ...
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Yesterday I turned in my final project for Organizational Leadership. It was an eight to 10 page paper (excluding abstract, references, appendix, etc.) which in of itself was not too terrible but for some reason I had to fight a major bout of writer's block, something I'm not used to experiencing but something I have always kind of feared. ...
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Tonight I was reading the various student success stories on the Ashford University's Web site in an effort to gain some encouragement and get some perspective. I got both but I also got a little bit of a surprise too, after reading so many success stories I am starting to really see how the ability to study and earn a degree online has ...
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This week's grades are in and I'm starting to wonder. I scored barely a 92 percent on my assignment and received and a 90 percent on my discussion. The killer is that I am dragging the bottom of the barrel on the class averages. There are only six of us in the whole class so I know that when I'm lower than the class average, I'm ...
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So far Organizational Leadership has been very rewarding yet frustrating. The whole APA response to first person questions has just been driving me mad, but the course content itself is first class. I've learned a lot about my organization and more specifically about how I perceive my organization and my role within it.
I've really been ...
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It's hard to describe something like an MBA as soft. It's akin to describing a porcupine as cuddly but nonetheless I have noticed more and more reports in the media about how "soft skills" are becoming increasingly important in the workplace and thus in B-schools. I can see this in my own workplace as well. Especially as we begin ...
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I had to register tonight on a new student portal at Ashford
University. The old one was pretty cool but nothing to
really write home about. It was kind of
like something that Southwestern College
had, basically it had my grades, my schedule, finances, GPA, next scheduled
course, etc. The new Ashford portal has
pretty ...
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BUS 644 Operations Management
Operations
Management was a pretty straightforward case study and research based
course. There were no real surprises
here other than my final project grade was a tad lower than I felt it should
have been, but then that’s life isn’t it?
The material was pretty easy to understand ...
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BUS 620 Managerial Marketing
Managerial
Marketing was actually a fairly fun course.
I find it interesting how marketers cater to a specific demographics,
the research they use to determine why they need to cater to that demographic
and the tactics they use to do so. I
enjoyed this class a lot and it was interesting to see ...
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I’ve been asked
by more than one person more than one time to review each course of the MBA
program. I’ve been reluctant to do so
because my strengths and weaknesses are different from the strengths and
weaknesses of others. It is therefore
impossible for me to review these courses 100% objectively as there is ...
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Tonight I did my discussion questions for contemporary
leadership. I can tell already that I’m
going to really dig this class. What’s
odd though is that there are so few students in this course as compared to my
core courses. Seriously, there are only
6 of us or so. In all of my previous
classes ...
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I don’t think I’ve ever really said much about it before but
I figured that since I blogged about 2 guys who were diagnosed as having
learning disabilities and being “notable failures” in history I would go ahead
and make tonight about my own personal learning disability. My learning disability has been ...
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When I first started my MBA program I was terrified of the
mathematics portion. In fact on my very
first quantitative methods exam I made a 30%.
That’s a 30% out of a 100%. I
felt so crappy and so much like a failure I actually discussed dropping out of
the program with my wife in lieu of simply settling for an MSM ...
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My last blog post was all about how I have 19 weeks left in
my MBA program before I’m done. Truth be
told, as of Tuesday next week, I have 18 weeks.
I am looking to go into the job market full time in the search for new
employment as soon as I graduate but as far as academically I’m just not sure
what is coming ...
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I can hardly believe it. Here I am looking at the schedule for my next class and realize that I have only 3 courses left. Including this week which is half way over I have 19 weeks left of school and then I’m home free. I am wondering about the commencement ceremony though. It will be in mid December in Iowa. I ...
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This week wasn’t all that bad. The assignment was only a 3 page essay,
excluding references of course, which was very nice of the instructor as our
final assignment is due next week and most of us have already started on it. As you may have guessed it is slightly more
than a 3 page essay. The class has gone
very ...
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Okay I’m not going to kid you; I struggled on the week 3 assignment. I mean, why wouldn’t I? I had just written about how I was in, what was it? Oh yes, “familiar territory” and about how things were “down hill” and other such boastful phrases. Week 3 reminded me that I was still amidst a full blown MBA ...
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My title got you didn’t it? You’re reading this blog post thinking “can I really get my MBA quick and easy?” Sure you can. It wasn’t too many weeks ago I interviewed a guy who had a degree from a wholly unaccredited and un-wonderful university (which shall go unnamed) and he told me how quick and easy it was to get ...
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Okay, tonight’s blog post is going to sound a little arrogant or conceited at first glance but bear with me, I’m experiencing something of a personal crisis of faith while simultaneously wondering if perhaps I’m wrong. So if anyone has felt the way I feel right now and finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel or realized ...
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Right now everywhere you turn we in America are in short supply of something vital to our country; we are in short supply of true leaders. Oh sure there are lots of people running about claiming to be leaders simply because they have been placed in leadership positions, but simply occupying a place of authority does not make a leader. If that ...
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Tonight I will wrap up Learning Block 2 in Operations Management. It was a 5 page research paper and a couple of discussion board questions. The reading assignments are fairly smooth as Operations Management is really just a form of systems thinking or what I call a big picture approach to handling situations. I’m one of ...
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As the title says, I received my first week’s assignment feedback. At the outset I immediately looked at my grade of 83% and thought ‘ah crap, it’s going to be like that, huh?’ Upon looking at the instructor feedback however I noticed two things. First is that this instructor really took the time to read and understand ...
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