Back from holiday. Two very interesting things happening this week:One: the LBS media club has 'opened' up again after the summer break. We had our kick-off meeting this week about 90 first year students showing up (it's a lot for the media club), followed by free drinks (which probably explains why so many people showed up). There is a lot of enthusiasm for the club from the new class, so it looks like thanks to them we will do great things this year.
Two: I started my first course of the year. It's a block-week course on "Leading teams and organizations". It's taught by a brilliant professor, and I am sitting with some truly brilliant classmates (in the picture Scott in the tower-building exercise). Main take-aways so far: a) there are different leadership styles which are appropriate to different situations. One needs to be conversant in most of them and I need to improve on a few. In particular I need to be more authoritative, which requires a vision (note to self: start posting about vision). b) My emotional intelligence is quite possibly rubbish. I need to be more aware of other people sensitivities when in a team situation (this is a long story, but I really mean it).
All in all ... good to be back.
4 comments:
Hey Fran, you have a great blog here. Could you just tell me more about the media club at LBS? This seems like a club I would be really interested in. Do you have a link?
Hitchiker, thanks for the comment. The Media club groups about 300 students and 600 alumni with an interest in media: (film, radio, tv, advertising, finance+media, consulting+media, etc). There are several student-driven events over the course of the year. The next one coming up is the London Media Summit (www.londonmediasummit.com). This year we are also hoping to organise a media business plan competition for students, as well as a number of other events. anything in particular you want to know? good luck with your applications.
Hello Fran, interesting post. I just found your post during a google search on "leading teams and organizations." I am interested to know the name of the brilliant professor who taught your course. (The link doesn't seem to work.) Thanks in advance!
Margaret Ormiston
http://www.london.edu/facultyandresearch/faculty/search.do?uid=mormiston
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