Lots of work…
My apologies to anyone who has visited in the past two weeks and found, well, nothing. I can’t believe that two weeks have gone by already. This program is extremely fast-paced and I’ve been having trouble keeping up periodically. It has caught me a bit off-guard in some cases since I’m used to being able to keep up with things without much difficulty.
So far we’ve been alternating through four core classes — Accounting, Economics, Statistics and Organizational Behaviour. I was hoping it would be mostly review for me since I took one of more undergrad courses in all of these subjects, but unfortunately that only got me through about the first class of each. After quickly summarizing the basics, we quickly rolled on through to more strategic “big picture” thinking. In these two weeks, I’ve learned quite a bit, not so much from the class material in most cases, but from the discussion and points brought up by classmates with widely varying backgrounds and experience.
It is currently lunchtime and I have my textbook open for a new course we have this afternoon — Strategy. I’m really looking forward to this class, since it will take the “big picture” thinking even one step further. This will likely be the primary course to pull all of the other subjects together to the broad-ranging topics that C-level (CEO, COO, etc.) executives have to make decisions about every day. And thankfully, the reading was very light — only one chapter — a stark contrast to the massive amounts of readings that have been assigned in the other courses.
