Eleven Ways to Manage the AP Team

In other words, help the team follow the goals of the organization and their own aspirations. Help the members move and progress. It’s no different than any success, but it’s rare, which is why so many are severely underemployed and fall into the Alopexian Paradox. The passion dims and the workers either stop any hope or find another outlet for their talents.
I’ve yet to find such an organization. All too often, the organizations for which I’ve worked either were short sighted or didn’t even bother to manage. So far, I’ve been in a “family” business that they throw away their workers in a merger or a business in a declining industry more interested in shedding workers than developing them.

Wed 26 May   17:54
My encounter with the various courses took a change today after Wells Fargo blocked my payment for Coursera Plus annual. I figure I spent enough to feast on all the courses I have already paid and downloaded.
I checked my notebook from the mid-1980’s, and I found storied I had written and forgotten during my time as a hostage of Reaganomics. So it’s time to revise my agenda for the summer.

 The latest on OChem with the Great Courses brought me back to the overall picture. Back in December 1976 I was still memorizing everything rather than stepping back as I actually did during the lower grades at t slower pace.

The clarity comes from understanding the vibrations of the organic molecules. Then the molecules absorb the light at certain frequencies. I suppose the lack of coverage of molecular orbitals with the physics of the vibrations would have clarified the concept.
Later I used ultraviolet light in a similar test for proteins and nucleates. It suggests that the former are more stable than regular organic molecules. There’s a hint for evolution.
While I do remember the so-called fingerprint region, I didn’t connect it with distinct organic molecules. Obviously the functional groups have the higher frequencies than the stabler fingerprint complexity.

Fri 5 Feb 21  11:08
My foray into the intensive and extensive reading of foreign languages has caused me to find use to apply the techniques in other subjects. How I used to apply it to history was both in the sense of grade school.
Today I intensely finished the Latin course in Duo Lingo, partly disappointed that it’s finished. But happy to finish the section. We never progressed beyond the present tense of verbs, nor even the passive voice or the subjunctive. The techniques that Luke Ranieri shows in Polymathy does go over the imagination of the content, which I used to do with the history textbooks, even at Penn State.

The Fourth Module of the Power MBA

 

Inevitably I compare it to the Penn State MBA. After nearly two score, I noticed many similarities with each other. At this point, I noticed some topics not yet covered., but I reserve comments until the course is finished. Of the differences, this is a slight slant toward international business and a larger emphasis on entrepreneurship.

 

When I joined the MBA program, the administration at Penn State emphasized employment with an average salary’s beginning at thirty thousand, equivalent to nearly eighty thousand now. Courses for concentration lacked entrepreneurship as well. I had intended French, but time forced me to concentrate in operations and finance, to which I added courses some four years later at Penn State.

 

I went into the job market without an offer, but determined to compete with the Japanese in operations. Thanks to the Power MBA and the courses on LinkedIn, I am updating that as well. I still see my future in operations and finance, so I’ll be adding more courses on both later.

 

The most notable course in marketing easily passes the one I had at Penn State. Not only does it cover corporate marketing, but also individual marketing. Penn State did provide a course in speech communication, but it assumed that the degree was sufficient toward individual marketing. Given some of the hostile interviews I’ve experienced, it was wholly inadequate. When I joined Toastmasters, I had the opportunity to demonstrate what I’ve learned since the MBA course in speech communication.

 

The Power MBA has moved into branding, which the Penn State MBA never explored. This group has a wider view of the MBA, at least in the survey. The is no time for concentrations, so maybe it’s why the Power MBA tries to explore a wider field.   

 

I have heard through Zoom meetings about having a personal brand, but the Power MBA explores not only what a brand really is, but also how to plan a brand. So, the question now is how to use the brand for personal benefit after planning a brand. When I worked at Bodek and Rhodes (now part of Alpha Broder), management was building the brand of Next Level, of which I was part by entering mill orders for customer. The management at Bodek and Rhodes didn’t consider giving me a larger part in building the Next Level brand, even though everyone knew I was severely underemployed there.

My conclusion:

The Power MBA, like the one at Penn State, implicitly hints that individuals must build their own brands to overcome the old “It’s not what you know; it’s who knows you”. By building a personal brand, networking become more effective. It is a lesson sorely lacking, which assumes it comes with experience. However, should that experience run into severe underemployment, and the Alopexian Paradox takes over, it may be decades before the wisdom of the way to a successful career appears.

 

The Fourth Module of the Power MBA

The progress on this course is so different from my experience at Penn State that I’m not sure whether it’s because of the updates or the means of the internet. This module concentrates on business and marketing strategies. It many have been a strategic management course at Penn State.

 

Outside of the Boston Consulting Group, Penn State didn’t touch on matrices, although one did show up in a personnel management class I took on employees. The Ansoff matrix emphasizes growth alternatives, and organic and inorganic alternates. I saw the buzzword “synergy” remains, and some of my classmates probably practice it from the executive suite.

 

Finding purpose in life as well as business manifests in Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle. Once again, building a brand as part of that purpose returns. Hidden as implicit advice for entrepreneurs opens blitzscaling and when to promote growth.

 

Pricing brought me back to the program at Penn State. How to strategize pricing in light of other concepts in this module was quite different. Both programs tend to avoid quantification of concepts like price elasticity, which challenges me to explore it after this course.

 

The concept of value came to me many years later when I joined H&R Block, so the value curve added to my knowledge. As I noted in the previous article, Penn State assumed the value of the degree and how the concept of value works in business.

 

The final piece of the module is Hangry and how they saw an opportunity to exploit, instead of reading about Ted Turner in an article how he built an empire. The next module deals with actual leadership.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Motivation

 It has dawned upon me that the notion of practice was missing from my methods for mathematics, which became a full-blown disaster a year later. One must go beyond memorizing and practice them to be pragmatic! I trace this problem back to biology with Sister John Ann, when the division began to separate. It was also hidden during the newpaper route in Mountaintop and showed up subtlely  at Zollinger Harned. The jobs were drudgery, paid poorly, and were well below my intellectual abilities.

Could it be that the shortcut of memorization instead of practicing led to my lack of finishing what I start? I must explore the possibility. It also may have to do with the habit of passively reading over and over the same passages for comprehension.

Mon 16 Nov 20  20:13                                                                                                                                         Overall I now can write about my experience with Power MBA, which will run to July to finish. Much of it reminds me of the program at Penn State, but much updated from 1984. It explores a dimension that didn’t exist with computers.

There were the old standards, such as which business to be in, strategy, and tactics. Ecommerce integrates the standards, and there’re always guests with their examples of their own businesses and how they built them. Another aspect was market size and on how to segment the market. There are quizzes after each unit to emphasize the concepts. I found it helpful to note all the questions and answers, especially the ones I had wrong. Sometimes – like tests at Block – have more value when taken aside to study.
Business Model Analysis included until economics and engines of growth. It brought back the former program and its numerizable concepts. Does any MBA really think that everything can be explained in numbers? Then platforms brought it into this century. A study of platforms led to assessment and more examples.
The next unit explored segmentation and its significance. The last on is value propositions, which should be complete this week, and with it the close of the second module of the ten.

Tue 17 Nov 20  20:20
Today I had a webinar with the Philadelphia Networking Group. It was about a Networking Toolbox and how to use LinkedIn. We also had leads on other fora.

Mon 23 Nov 20  18:13
Daniel Stanton has a group of thirteen lessons on supply chain management. I inadvertently had taken the first part, so I took the second one. Much of it repeats what I had learned in the MBA program at Penn State.

Wed 25 Nov 20  15:27

Second, I used the stimulus to take a course for certification on accounts payable – already done – and the Power MBA. I also had many problems with the house, so far $6700 in repairs, out of the stimulus. Fortunately, my mortgage is paid off since 2017. My unemployment, after Reaganic taxes. is about the income I had with a four-day workweek there.

In sum, I have been neither bored nor lonely over the past eight months. Besides Block – which will start another tax season – I even took a course for certified Excel, and I’m pursuing other courses with LinkedIn and the Great Course among others.

 Overall I now can write about my experience with Power MBA, which will run to July to finish. Much of it reminds me of the program at Penn State, but much updated from 1984. It explores a dimension that didn’t exist with computers.

There were the old standards, such as which business to be in, strategy, and tactics. Ecommerce integrates the standards, and there’re always guests with their examples of their own businesses and how they built them. Another aspect was market size and on how to segment the market. There are quizzes after each unit to emphasize the concepts. I found it helpful to note all the questions and answers, especially the ones I had wrong. Sometimes – like tests at Block – have more value when taken aside to study.
Business Model Analysis included until economics and engines of growth. It brought back the former program and its numerizable concepts. Does any MBA really think that everything can be explained in numbers? Then platforms brought it into this century. A study of platforms led to assessment and more examples.
The next unit explored segmentation and its significance. The last on is value propositions, which should be complete this week, and with it the close of the second module of the ten.

 

Wed 4 Nov 20  21:05

I just finished another segment of the Power MBA. I may be three fifths done. I just haven’t begun to go over the courses. I didn’t find the Accounts Receivable certification particularly new. Tomorrow I will try to summarize the various projects I’m on, and what I’m learning on the internet dairy. I should continue with academic subjects.

 

Thu 5 Nov 20  21:27

I was watching the Stuff Bread on Mystery Science Theater 3000 when I thought of the extra effort to get ahead, but I don’t know how. Power MNA now moves into the fourth of five units. Block has barriers on the extra course. One ends in the second unit and the other won’t let me back in, forcing me to take the test blindly.