Blog topic # 7: Nurturing Creativity in Business

Thoughts on Management...

Effective management is the key

It can make or break your destiny

If success is what you seek,

Be proactive don’t be meek

Plan, organize, lead, control

To be an effective manager, you have to know it all

Handle your people well

Guide them so they could excel

Achieving goals is possible if you set your mind

Seek creativity and you shall find

Any troubles that you might face

Follow your intuition if that’s the case

If you pay attention really well

There are a lot of things you can tell

Try to move out of the classroom fence

You will realize that management is but common sense

Blog topic # 6: Communicating via Blog

In my opinion, writing a blog (or blogging) is an effective communications tool. It keeps me engaged in my management class. I really don't talk much in class, so by writing a blog after each class activity gives me an opportunity to speak my thoughts and ideas about the subject matter. It also allows me to interact with my fellow classmates by reading their posts, learning and exchanging ideas simultaneously. I've gained a lot of valuable insights from reading not only from the posts of my fellow classmates, but also from Professor Kurpis' blog as well ("meatball sundae" and "lizard brain" are still stuck in my head!). Though I don't know each student in class personally, I get to learn about some of their thoughts, ideas, views, and experiences.

In addition, I think that blogging has helped me to think about the activities we did in class. During class activities, I don't really get to think much about the lessons we do in class. It is only when I'm at home doing my blog assignments that I am forced to re-think about the activities we did and relate it with the concepts that we learn in class. It is easier to grasp and understand management concepts if there's some kind of experience that goes with it.

I do think that doing the blog assignments is a good way for students to control and manage part of their grade. I think that it is a fair deal, I'd rather write a blog than hand in a research paper. But honestly speaking, it was really challenging for me to complete all blog assignments plus the commentaries during the course of the semester. Blogging can be time consuming, so time management is really important.

I'm not really sure if I can commit to continually write on my blog after this semester, but I have no intentions of closing my account. I would probably document it and keep it as a valuable remembrance of my management class.