Comments on: P = MBA http://socialbutterflyguy.com/2009/10/12/p-mba/ A social media and networking blog by DJ Waldow Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:45:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: P=MBA | UNC EMBA Talk http://socialbutterflyguy.com/2009/10/12/p-mba/#comment-390 P=MBA | UNC EMBA Talk Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:23:37 +0000 http://socialbutterflyguy.com/?p=413#comment-390 [...] Continue to read DJ’s speech, and watch the video! Email Print [...] [...] Continue to read DJ’s speech, and watch the video! Email Print [...]

]]> By: Sid Prince http://socialbutterflyguy.com/2009/10/12/p-mba/#comment-242 Sid Prince Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:13:14 +0000 http://socialbutterflyguy.com/?p=413#comment-242 Great post, and greater speech DJ. Not bad filming & sound for filming from an iPhone huh? Bet you had to clean that up a bit! P=MBA brotha. I=gladtohavealifeagain, and You=awesomefriend Thanks for the cred. Sid. .-= Sid Prince´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.sidneyprince.com/blog/this_i_believeand_it_may_be.html" rel="nofollow">This I believe...and it May be Killing Me</a> =-. Great post, and greater speech DJ. Not bad filming & sound for filming from an iPhone huh? Bet you had to clean that up a bit!

P=MBA brotha. I=gladtohavealifeagain, and You=awesomefriend

Thanks for the cred.

Sid.
.-= Sid Prince´s last blog ..This I believe…and it May be Killing Me =-.

]]> By: Bear Hugs vs. Handshakes | Social Butterfly Guy http://socialbutterflyguy.com/2009/10/12/p-mba/#comment-239 Bear Hugs vs. Handshakes | Social Butterfly Guy Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:25:26 +0000 http://socialbutterflyguy.com/?p=413#comment-239 [...] my Kenan-Flagler Business School graduation last month (see speech), 99.9% of the graduates shook hands with the Associate Dean of the program. It was like an [...] [...] my Kenan-Flagler Business School graduation last month (see speech), 99.9% of the graduates shook hands with the Associate Dean of the program. It was like an [...]

]]> By: DJ Waldow http://socialbutterflyguy.com/2009/10/12/p-mba/#comment-236 DJ Waldow Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:26:39 +0000 http://socialbutterflyguy.com/?p=413#comment-236 @Christina: I always (try) to have fun. Not fun = boring, right? I'm not necessarily anti-grades. I just think that when the focus is on "making an A" (or H for "high pass" in this case), the emphasis has a tendency to move from learning to grow to learning for a grade. Not always, but sometimes. @Eric: Thanks, dude. YOU were the inspiration. Sorry I didn't give you proper credit during the actual speech. Hopefully I covered it in the post above. As far as you comments...you know I agree. Thanks for stopping by. DJ Waldow @djwaldow @Christina: I always (try) to have fun. Not fun = boring, right? I’m not necessarily anti-grades. I just think that when the focus is on “making an A” (or H for “high pass” in this case), the emphasis has a tendency to move from learning to grow to learning for a grade. Not always, but sometimes.

@Eric: Thanks, dude. YOU were the inspiration. Sorry I didn’t give you proper credit during the actual speech. Hopefully I covered it in the post above. As far as you comments…you know I agree. Thanks for stopping by.

DJ Waldow
@djwaldow

]]> By: Eric http://socialbutterflyguy.com/2009/10/12/p-mba/#comment-235 Eric Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:10:17 +0000 http://socialbutterflyguy.com/?p=413#comment-235 Great post and great speech, DJ. Re: grades in business school - most MBA students aren't motivated by them at all. High academic performance *may* be *loosely* correlated with high real-world performance, but I certainly don't think it is a causal relationship. .-= Eric´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.ericboggs.com/blog/2009/9/4/twitter-forcing-a-strategy-switch.html" rel="nofollow">Twitter Forcing A Strategy Switch</a> =-. Great post and great speech, DJ.

Re: grades in business school – most MBA students aren’t motivated by them at all. High academic performance *may* be *loosely* correlated with high real-world performance, but I certainly don’t think it is a causal relationship.
.-= Eric´s last blog ..Twitter Forcing A Strategy Switch =-.

]]> By: Christina http://socialbutterflyguy.com/2009/10/12/p-mba/#comment-233 Christina Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:26:02 +0000 http://socialbutterflyguy.com/?p=413#comment-233 Thanks for sharing the video of your speech! It looked like you were having fun while speaking to your fellow graduates. :-) While hopefully all MBA grads (and the rest of us, too) will focus on people, I don't think eliminating grades will facilitate it. Grades don't always correlate with mastery of material (which includes application of it in real life settings), but in my experience students who score high in class tend to be those who use the information well outside the classroom. Does that mean a *greater* emphasis on grades is warranted? I don't know. :-) .-= Christina´s last blog ..<a href="http://iamtooprettyforthis.blogspot.com/2009/10/garlic-in-glove-compartment.html" rel="nofollow">Garlic In The Glove Compartment</a> =-. Thanks for sharing the video of your speech! It looked like you were having fun while speaking to your fellow graduates. :-)

While hopefully all MBA grads (and the rest of us, too) will focus on people, I don’t think eliminating grades will facilitate it. Grades don’t always correlate with mastery of material (which includes application of it in real life settings), but in my experience students who score high in class tend to be those who use the information well outside the classroom.

Does that mean a *greater* emphasis on grades is warranted? I don’t know. :-)
.-= Christina´s last blog ..Garlic In The Glove Compartment =-.

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