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.
