As if I needed a reminder that I'm slow.
This weekend I got my ass kicked, but had fun doing it. This is progress. At last: a HEALTHY relationship with my bicycle!
Sven and I went to Leesburg for a MABRA race. Great course, awesome accouncing, fun people. A great time for all.
Betsy Shogren lost her crankarm during lap 1, and we thought she was gone. But she powered back and eventually passed me in the final lap to secure 3rd place. All on a single-speed pit bike! Unreal.
(I look fat in this picture. And I will accept no disagreements)
Regarding Darden:
Being in business school is absolutely demoralizing for someone with little FORMAL education in business. Everything I learned was on the job, and trying to transfer that knowledge into academics is a challenge. I spend most of my classes these days marveling at how my QuantSavant classmates seem to “get it” and how far behind I’m falling. I am amazed at how their brains can absorb and process this stuff and mine cannot get off the first page. Yet, conversely (hey, I have to make myself feel good sometimes), my ability to understand the “softer” and more intuitive side of things leaves some of those math-types far behind. Obviously, this is a true reflection of how companies are composed: many people with different backgrounds and skillsets. We must synergize and improve our performance to increase the bottom line. Recognize each other’s deficiencies and work to compensate with our own strengths; it contributes to the greater good. One thing we are being subtly taught (but don’t always do) is how to teach one another without sacrificing our own success. It’s a delicate dance. I think that sometimes I am better than Ginger Rogers, and other times I have two left feet. I find that those who are so competitive as to leave their classmates behind do themselves and the entire school a disservice. If you can’t instruct others in a way that enhances their performance, what have you done for the good of the whole? I would like to challenge my classmates to contemplate that when they spend a lot of time vying for their sole success. Or maybe I just spent too much time racing my bike as a domestique.
Okay, now I will show a picture of something easy to understand. Here’s something we can all agree on: flowers are pretty. Especially when they are photographed in my hometown.
Being in business school is absolutely demoralizing for someone with little FORMAL education in business. Everything I learned was on the job, and trying to transfer that knowledge into academics is a challenge. I spend most of my classes these days marveling at how my QuantSavant classmates seem to “get it” and how far behind I’m falling. I am amazed at how their brains can absorb and process this stuff and mine cannot get off the first page. Yet, conversely (hey, I have to make myself feel good sometimes), my ability to understand the “softer” and more intuitive side of things leaves some of those math-types far behind. Obviously, this is a true reflection of how companies are composed: many people with different backgrounds and skillsets. We must synergize and improve our performance to increase the bottom line. Recognize each other’s deficiencies and work to compensate with our own strengths; it contributes to the greater good. One thing we are being subtly taught (but don’t always do) is how to teach one another without sacrificing our own success. It’s a delicate dance. I think that sometimes I am better than Ginger Rogers, and other times I have two left feet. I find that those who are so competitive as to leave their classmates behind do themselves and the entire school a disservice. If you can’t instruct others in a way that enhances their performance, what have you done for the good of the whole? I would like to challenge my classmates to contemplate that when they spend a lot of time vying for their sole success. Or maybe I just spent too much time racing my bike as a domestique.
Okay, now I will show a picture of something easy to understand. Here’s something we can all agree on: flowers are pretty. Especially when they are photographed in my hometown.
2 comments:
WoW! 2 full days and no comments...
Nice to finally meet you in person!
Good luck in school
kevin
You used the word "synergize" in a blog post. Business school has begun its corruption!
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