Friday, September 09, 2005
Getting Started
OK, I finally have everything in place and I am ready to start my journal. I think this is an insteresting assignment for my behavior in organizations class, so I will take the effort to continue updating this throughout my studies at Pepperdine.
So here I am, I am finally in the door. It seems like its been a few year since I felt that I had a goal and objective, but I am finally doing something for myself again. My previous employer was a great company, but really absorbed my time. Although I miss some of the intensity in my new position, my new employer has given me a chance to catch up with myself.
My goal is to improve my career aspirations with this program. There are several options I have for the future that I am looking toward:
1. Is to continue up the management path at my current employer using the skills I learn in this program.
2. Build my own services company providing assistance for PLM solutions
3. Build a practice for a third party service provider that recognizes the opportunities available in this line of software and can provide the resources to build the practice.
4. Build my own company providing a completely different product or service outside of my area of expertise.
My plan is to study each new topic in my classes through these paradigms. Apply what is taught in each subject and use this time as a research project. To find which goal makes the most sense or if a new opportunity exposes itself. "Nothing fades as fast as future -- Nothing clings like the past"
For the journaling, I have a little bit of make up to do. I was able to use a cunning tactic to get my Sharepoint community site up and sponsored by the company by becoming the Sales Manager for the Pepperdine account. Tonight I moved my Teamcenter Community site out of its shadow location and into its new domain. Hopefully, I can use it for teaming once we get into our projects.
The class demographics are pretty interesting, a real mix of diferent types of people and backgrounds, I am one of the older people in the class, but not by very much. I was afraid the composition was going to be like a casting call for "The Apprentice", but most of the folks are pretty down to earth and intelligent. The competition does not appear intense and the teaming appears like it might work pretty well. It will be interesting weighing what I am learning against what I have been reading recently in "Good to Great", "The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership", "7 habits of highly effective people" against this course and it's literature.
As chapter 14 points out, I think I am in the encounter phase, a little surprised of the logistics issues and level of technology being pretty far behind, but I am sure I can adapt to this environment pretty well.
So here I am, I am finally in the door. It seems like its been a few year since I felt that I had a goal and objective, but I am finally doing something for myself again. My previous employer was a great company, but really absorbed my time. Although I miss some of the intensity in my new position, my new employer has given me a chance to catch up with myself.
My goal is to improve my career aspirations with this program. There are several options I have for the future that I am looking toward:
1. Is to continue up the management path at my current employer using the skills I learn in this program.
2. Build my own services company providing assistance for PLM solutions
3. Build a practice for a third party service provider that recognizes the opportunities available in this line of software and can provide the resources to build the practice.
4. Build my own company providing a completely different product or service outside of my area of expertise.
My plan is to study each new topic in my classes through these paradigms. Apply what is taught in each subject and use this time as a research project. To find which goal makes the most sense or if a new opportunity exposes itself. "Nothing fades as fast as future -- Nothing clings like the past"
For the journaling, I have a little bit of make up to do. I was able to use a cunning tactic to get my Sharepoint community site up and sponsored by the company by becoming the Sales Manager for the Pepperdine account. Tonight I moved my Teamcenter Community site out of its shadow location and into its new domain. Hopefully, I can use it for teaming once we get into our projects.
The class demographics are pretty interesting, a real mix of diferent types of people and backgrounds, I am one of the older people in the class, but not by very much. I was afraid the composition was going to be like a casting call for "The Apprentice", but most of the folks are pretty down to earth and intelligent. The competition does not appear intense and the teaming appears like it might work pretty well. It will be interesting weighing what I am learning against what I have been reading recently in "Good to Great", "The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership", "7 habits of highly effective people" against this course and it's literature.
As chapter 14 points out, I think I am in the encounter phase, a little surprised of the logistics issues and level of technology being pretty far behind, but I am sure I can adapt to this environment pretty well.
