After some bright, relatively warm past few weeks, winter has come knocking on the door. At 6.30 yesterday's evening, I looked out my office windows and the darkness outside gave that depressing sense of winter. It's probably a good way of welcoming winter by kicking off with my MBA. Cold, gloomy, wet, and ... busy studying. Now, that will keep winter short.
Let's reflect what I have been doing in preparing for 1 November.
Since the day I got the study pack, I have been reading the MBA handbook. I'm probably half way to completion. It's a good "big" piece of preparatory reading. Most of the chapters are common sense you can say, but there are one or two which are pretty special. To start off, there is this discussion about being assertive, aggressive and .. I dont remember the third that is way opposite of the two. There may not be anything significant about this topic. But, if you analyse it properly and try to think of characters within your workplace that are either assertive, or aggressive, you will realise that it's easy to locate the latter, but not the former. On the surface the two look pretty much the same, but in actual fact there is a big difference. I have to say that out of the top manager colleagues I worked with, talked too, there is only one person who falls into the category of assertive. There are many who are pure aggressive - I begin too see how pure agressive although may make you God in some organisation and job, and as long as you have strong "god father" back-up, it won't last. But being assertive could take you miles further.
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