Sunday, November 12, 2006
Contemporary leadership
Well, i have been a fan of practical leadership.... not theories mind you. i always pity the number of academics out there who researches on leadership and their theories and go round imparting their theories. you know what is so hypocritical about them? they aren't leaders!!! so much for the farce.
my ma proj is coming to an end. believe it or not, its the first time i had an all star line up for proj and i didn't rate myself well. let's do a personal reflection of the different modules which i took which had project... and how i cope with it.
LTB and CT. grp size 7. basically, i took a passive approach for towards both mods and let other domineering people calls the shot. i intend to learn to be a follower on both occasion. in ltb, there was good leadership. however in CT, a strong leadership is obviously lacking,
Micro econs... grp size 4. i think this is one weird grp in which i played to my own expertise in the subject and do everything on my own. relegated all the other group mates to supportive roles. and of course, the outcome was quite efficient and successful because of the slack nature of the people in the group. they have played successfully to my strength. i need to be fed with inspiration in order to have high work rate and apparently, many fail to see the point.
bgs... had a consultative style this time round and it worked, this is because 3 out of the 4 person in the group has similar working style and wavelength. to begin with. in terms of efficiency, this group got it. but due to a lack of someone who has clear direction, quality of the end product was not top notch.
ma... my second attempt to play the whole group to my expert power backfire. firstly, the group comprise of very strong individuals. it is like real madrid, a very strong paper squad, but the severe lack of teamwork is there. no communication, work duplication. doing the same thing over and over again. lack of trust amongst grp mates. i do not even have the trust of the grp mate to even allow for them to play to my expert power and neither is anyone interested to provide with the room and inspiration i need to carry the whole project through.
but i will like to examine this grp alot. as it provide me with good experience. the end product of the project is good but the process of getting there was bad. it is not about the different personality in the group. it is about managing a group of very strong individual. (actually that is not hard, that is hard once you factor in varied working style). think some evaluation on the past few days. just cannot get ans.
posted @ 10:49 PM ||
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Relation between Mean, Median
for some reason, i am feeling geeky (but not very). was trying to use empirical data to support but i don't have enough data on hand. of course, will gladly appreciate if anyone can pass me what ever data they have. I want to think that is some form of relationship between mean and median. Let talk the traditional exam system as a gauge... the number can vary freely within 0-100. If the mean is less than 50, chances are median is below. Conversely, if the mean is more than 50, median is even higher. HOWEVER, just before you go about to conclude that the relationship is linear, i am gonna up my hypothesis with a more stunning prediction. i feel that the relationship is sinusoidal, with the amptitude at 25, 75 and x intercept at 50. i do not have mathematical prove, nor do i have empirical data. but of course, i will like to see the empirical data and maybe perform a chi square test to see if it works... anyone wants to render help?
posted @ 11:33 PM ||
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
10 days in the life of me
i encounter a few things which i do not like:
i dun like people to lie to me... esp when i see through it immediately
people who cannot park their cars... after all they are paying for 1 lot only, not fair for them to take 2
gals who carry big wallet... after all, its for display only, when they go out with me... its me who foot the bill anyway...
scholars who free ride on me for grades but yet still have their school fees fully subsidized whilst i am paying
smuggers who are full blown, look, i am someone who have a strong personal life... not just a blog, but i need inspiration and smugging dun give inspiration.
was doing blog surfing... and i chance upon a good blog... a blog which shows a person's identity... but its not mine... bet many people didn't expect the usual crappy ty to be such a bore as a blogger. guess i have become spontaneous. there was a time where people prefer my presence only online... now i am sure there are still people who feels that. after all the ty they see is never serious, always bullshitting.
posted @ 11:31 PM ||
