Getting My MBA at 48

Motivation

Indeed motivation especially self-motivation is one of the simplest yet hardest thing to do.

I can in my own mind summons up the power to move mountains or build super-computers, but can’t seem to transfer that same creative motivation to movement.

I remember reading Anthony Robbins, “Awaken the Giant Within” about,

Motion is Emotion, Emotion comes from motion, movement, the nervous system needs to move. Expending energy give us a sense of greater energy.

That is some of how I feel right now, that I am not creating enough energy. I have always believed in perpetual motion, things in motion tend to stay in motion and things at rest tend to stay at rest. My version the more you do the more you do, the less you do the less you do.

I am on this cusp

I need to keep the momentum going into the direction of my dreams.

Commitment, dedication, determination

I write this because I want to learn, the problem is I feel sometimes I don’t have enough time to learn all that I want to learn.

Reading books about fixing my resume takes time, writing my resume takes time, learning to write apps takes take, learning to make ebooks takes time, even now I feel that I need to read “Awaken the Giant Within” again and that takes time, the gym takes time.

Boy it sure sounds like I need to master my time, bend time and make time work for me. After all how long do I want this to take before I finish classes.

So I need to remember that Mastery of anything is as long as I want it to take.

With my school work, this blog and the few other things I have on my plate I need to use commitment, dedication, determination to help me achieve.

I have the rest of the night then most of the day before I have to sit at the airport for 5 hours tomorrow night.

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Another company wanting government backing

It is amazing to me that these companies can be so irresponsible, Dubai World has 59 billion in liabilities and asked for a standstill request last week while it restructures. Please!

If that was the common folk all the creditors would be coming after them with fervor,

I agree with…

“Creditors need to take part of the responsibility for their decision to lend to the companies,” said Abdulrahman al-Saleh, director general of Dubai’s department of finance. “They think Dubai World is part of the government, which is not correct.” from the article “Government won’t back Dubai World debt” from The Globe and Mail.

Both the company and the creditors need to take some responsibility and quit trying to push off the debt to some else. I can’t do this and you can’t do this, wouldn’t it have been nice if the United States government guaranteed all of its citizens debt instead of a few investment firms. Crazy, but it is no crazier than what the government did with the financial crisis in the United States, which was started by certain corporationsto rid itself of competitors.

A great article, eye opening in fact is in Rolling Stone, Oct 14, 2009 “Wall Street’s Naked Swindle” by Matt Taibbi. My hat is off to him for telling a great story, very informative

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

Here is one of the Illustrations and that is how I feel, those companies are causing the US government to help while they still make millions.

-Break- I have to go get ready and fly from Phoenix to Las Vegas to San Francisco, more tonight-

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A day of sitting on stand-by writing essays

So I have been sitting since 3:00 p.m. waiting to see if I would get called out for work. Luckily they haven’t called.

But I have been working on my homework since 10:00 a.m., the case 3 essay almost done, tomorrow I hope to have a good working copy then a revision and send it off.

It can be hard to sit and study, read and write when you would rather be out doing other things. But its all for the goal for June 2010.

Writing on corporate governance, is interesting because of what has happened in the last year to all these companies. To this economy and to people lives.

The mortgage industry is one that I don’t understand, how could everyone be letting so many people who couldn’t afford a mortgage have one. How could the managers and CEO of these companies allow things like this to happen except for greed and individual opportunistic motives.

The board of directors at some of these companies seem to be letting the kids run amok.

I also believe that it is the obligation of the board of directors and CEOs to take care of the stakeholders. But I for one like a few CEO out there that believe that if you take care of your number 1 asset, your employees they will take care of your customers which will take care your stakeholders (shareholders).

I also believe that a company should make a profit, but how much? at the cost of value? at the cost of employees? at the cost of creating value for your product? or at the cost of creating a quality, reliable product?

I also to believe that if the compensation given to CEOs is so much greater than the upper management there will be conflicts, also the same holds true when the CEO and upper managements compensations is grossly disproportionally to employees.

I see it at the company I work for where the employee at the bottom of seniority can qualify for food stamps, and yet management refuses to pay them. They even refuse to pay them the same as our counterparts which management say is contractual. But after 4 years a contract is no where in-site with our counterparts after the merger (reverse acquisition).

It is unethical for your employees to to be applying for food stamps while you as the CEO and your stakeholder are making money.

But I like learning and what the books have to say and see what happens in real life.

Tags: big business, corporate governance, online university, studying, success, wealth

Profit, How much is to much?

This morning on my way to Reno, NV I picked up the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. In the WSJ there was an article describing how management is going to do things differently at Starbucks, Armed with a stopwatch to cut times partners make coffee and do other jobs in the stores.

This is all in an attempt to save money and make more profit and of course more efficient. As the article calls it getting more lean, sounds crazy to me.

Want more profit, get me out of the fu fu drink line.

Set up a machine so that can walk up NOT in the fu fu drink line somewhere else, put my money in get my Hot cup of black coffee and be on my way. No muss no fuss.

Because if you don’t you Mr Starbucks you will miss out, I usually will pass by opting not to wait when I see that line. I know in that line they are all in there ordering coffee using 50 plus words to describe to the barrister what they want in the coffee.

I am probably not the only one who will walk on by. Avoid my nice cup of joe and reason with myself that I really didn’t need to spend the money. Because at my weakest point that moment they had me, that Starbucks line save me from buying what I really did not need to begin with.

It been a nice day here Reno, and a good time to work on homework

Reading Chapter 1 of Strategic Management I was amazed to read what I have been thinking for awhile in it opening statement and I quote;

” GM is having difficulty achieving the levels of success desired by people who have a stake in the firm’s performance” (Hitt, Hoskisson, Ireland, 2007, pg 4)

Seems that is what has been getting this country and it economy into trouble. Levels of success desired by people.

CEO’s, corporations, and workers are letting ourselves be drive by someone else’s greed. To make more, drive more, and cut more bottom line of the accountants ledger is all that matters. To do the task master bidding.

Not the Customer, and not the Employees, just the Shareholders. Don’t the CEO’s and Corporation get it! that those shareholders have no loyalty to said company. Their only loyalty is to the Almighty Green Back, how much money can they make today, this hour, this minute.

It is a greed wheel that has been pushed hard in the 21st century.

What has happened to good honest work, making a quality product you were proud of and making money at it.

Marketing has taught us we need to have all the toys, and the drive to make the money to pay for those toys has hit everyone. With the internet came day traders, out went investors… in a few years I believe it will go to hourly traders to minute traders as computing power gets stronger. The need to race, to get the edge and cash in, will even become greater.

Greed is the fuel of the investor/day trader and with no loyalties the death of many a company that think in old school management terms(were to big for them to hurt us)  and don’t seek creative and new ways of management and doing business.

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