MBA progess etc., Philosophy, Myths and Books

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Finished two more courses of my MBA today with exams for Contemporary People Management and Strategic Management. The latter would be quite amusing for Brendan E; it was entirely dedicated to Nike, whom I discover neither make or sell shoes. Assuming I've passed both of these (a fair assumption) this means I've completed all all the rerequisite units for the qualification with only four elective units to do. I must confess I am rather unsure of what to select from the offerings and will spend some time considering these choices - and for that matter how many I do. I could be enthusiastic and try to get the lot done over summer, the equivalent of a full-time load. In other qualifications did the refresher course for my First Aid Certificate. The trainer wasn't very good; when people didn't understand his questions his strategy was to repeat himself, but louder. He also tried to tell us that a blood glucose level of 12 was normal for diabetics. I think that's a very dangerous thing to teach.

Last Sunday conducted a dual presentation with Rick Barker at the Unitarian Philosophy Forum on Teleology and Free Will. Deriving heavily from Aristotle which follows a somewhat Hellenic-centric approach we've had recently at the Forum, which will be followed up with The Hellenic Origins of Philosophy. Appropriately, I've just picked up the Folio Society edition of Graves' Greek Myths, a set both flawed and beautiful. Actually I should also mention that recently picked up a 1674 edition of Beuvelet's Meditations on the Principles of Truth and a mid-19th century Byron set. I am justly worried that I might be acquiring yet another hobby.

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[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Strategic Mgmt was one of my top-3 favestest subjects. *nod*

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

If it were me I would take:

Engineering Risk Management
Strategic Management in Services
Managing Innovation
Management of Professional Services

Which can be distilled into the "Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em." philosophy.

IT needs this. No really.

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

The oldest books I have are a nineteenth century H. Rider Haggard and a year-not-printed edition of the Rubaiyat.

Thumbs down for the ignorant first-aider. 12? If I go look at the chart on my refrigerator that's in the orange "this is going to be dangerous shortly but may not outwardly appear so" zone.

[shehasathree]

Congrats on the exams!
Ooh, it's time for me to renew my First Aid certificate, too. I wasn't too impressed with the place I went to last time, though. Nothing as bad as what your trainer said, though!

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

But it's such a worth-while hobby, innit? I feel there's something special about books as artifacts, either as historical ones or artistic ones, that can easily transcend the (not inconsiderable) value of just having those particular texts available in just any old format. The past is a foreign country, separated by countless decades; now you can enjoy a few more tangible things from that strange land, in a form that those people first encountered and handled them in! (If a bit more scruffy around the edges... but that's how it tends to go.)