EMBA Survival

USA Today Article about Olin '98 MBA class

One of the managers at work pointed this out to me today:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2008-05-07-mba-grads-olin_N.htm

Overall, it paints a favorable picture of MBA grads

Speed Reading

My classmate, Rob Jefferies, sent this out...

 I had a few inquiries last weekend on what tools I have used to increase my reading speed.  The following are two books that I would recommend. I have used the first book personally and a close friend of mine has used the second one.  If you were to spend 20-30 minutes every other day during our summer break you could possibly double your reading speed.  I've seen about a doubling in my speed.   Speed reading really helps in lighter reading like IT, ethics, and marketing texts but it will not be huge help in Finance etc.  I can't recommend doing this enough it has really helped me out.

Breakthrough Rapid Reading  by Peter Kump (Paperback - Nov 1, 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBreakthrough-Rapid-Reading-Peter-Kump%2Fdp%2F073520019X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1187920273%26sr%3D8-1&tag=wwwrobjefferi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

Triple Your Reading Speed, Fourth Edition by Wade E. Cutler (Mass Market Paperback - Jul 2003)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTriple-Your-Reading-Speed-Fourth%2Fdp%2F0743475763%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1187920273%26sr%3D8-2&tag=wwwrobjefferi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

 

Team 8 was Great

Last semester, I was fortunate to be on a great team with some fantastic people.  We were team #8: Seema, Faycel, Thomas, Bob, and myself.  These folks are very smart, motivated, nice, and fun to work with.  We accomplished a lot, worked well together, and laughed a lot.

A notable achievement was our victory at the Ice Cream Game, where our team sold more of the virtual product that we made than any other team:

That's us at the top :)

Here we all are at the end of the semester smoking victory cigars:

I miss working with them, but I don't miss them because we're all good friends now and will definitely keep in touch.

The Dip

Once you start an EMBA, you will hit a wall.  Or, as Seth Goden puts it, the bottom of The Dip.  His book will change the way you think.  It's not a bad idea to pick it up before you start you MBA.  If you've already started graduate school and you don't have time to read it now, put it on your list of things to do before you start your next job search.