For one of my personal resolutions this year, I plan to complete Duolingo's German course. I currently have 138 lessons left. My plan is to:
1. Average a lesson every other day.
2. Complete an average of 2 strengthening practices each day.
3. I will supplement this with watching at least 10 minutes of German speaking video per week.
This study concludes what most probably already knew, micro managing is ineffective.
"When employees were pressured to work more, they were less inspired, she found. But when allowed to set their own pace, taking fewer vacations and working on weekends, they could accept it because it was their choice, Michel explained in the summer issue of The Sociological Quarterly, where her study was published."
This article provides an interesting chart of different schools of thought in economics.
Thought this was an interesting article and TED talk on how to develop your likability.
As part of my New Year's plan that I've decided to implement ahead of time (look at me getting all proactive already), I've decided to also use this space to write about my progress in the MBA program I started this month.
The program is through the UW and specializes in Technology Management. It is an executive program, meaning it runs nights and weekends for 18 months. The first quarter, assuming one can call it that, was a week long (8 hours for 7 days) intensive study in Business Ethics, Professional Communications, Negotiations, and Team Building.
The next quarter begins 1/3 with classes in Financial Accounting, Stats, Micro Economics, and Prof Comm again.
This year I'm going to attempt a bit more proactive and aggressive approach to the whole resolution(s) bit. First, I plan to post here on what my resolutions are to be. I'll also be using this space to update on progress toward my 2015 goals.
Here's hoping that a) this will compel me to think more deeply than typical about these and b) help me to stick with things in a more than sporadic manner.
