It's happening now

The introduction seminar in Morzine was quite successful. 22 complete strangers organised themselves into formal and informal groups over the weekend. White-water rafting, 'accro-branche', a sort of tree-top adventure course and some hiking, with the odd presentation and snow-ball fight filled up our week.

Last weekend we started in earnest with 3 very intensive days on Organisational Behaviour (OB). I just had time to read the chapters before the course and to do some preparation for the first case study in Marielle's car as we drove to Reims in the morning. It was good to see everyone again, the memories of Morzine were still quiet fresh and we'd been communicating sporadically over e-mail since then.

I was put in a work group with Nicolas T, Lionel, Steven and Elisabeth. Despite the challenges presented within and outside the team, we stormed through successfully and ourpresentation was nominated 'best in the class' that week-end. It was a lot of work and I'm happy to have been able to participate in such a great team and to start off in such positive terms.

I bought Kotler's latest Marketing Management 12th edition in WH Smiths on sunday. It was horrenously expensive and is 15 years newer than my original copy! I've got 12 chapters to read, assimilate and summarize before the 5th July. I think the secret is to pace myself.

Nicolas Z, Olivier, Patrice and Eric are looking into ways we can 'collaborate' better. So I'm currently testing Googledocs with them to see if it fits our needs. Pretty cool tool but let's wait and see how people respond to it.

On a personal level I know that OB is probably going to be the 'easiest' of all the subjects during our MBA. I'm happy to have done well so far, I'd be even happier if I maintain that level throughout the course. My other concern is my Business Plan (BP). I have some very nebulous ideas that I need to flesh out in order to stay on the programme. Sharam's conference was inspiring and I hope to discuss my plans with him in the future.

There you have my resumé of my EMBA status. Exciting times are here.