September 18, 2007

Lecture 1 - Strategic Management - Introduction to Course

Course
- suspend your disbelief
- perception vs. reality
- what is reality

What are you trying to be?
- Myths - what societal/corporate myths exist?
- Look at differential
- (Positive/negative) energy
- Strategic inflection

10 years:
- China as a military superpower?
- Shift in wealth: M-> F?

Discursive formations
- Dialogues
- The narratives of the day
- Intersections
- Strategic formulations

Liberal arts - what does it mean?
- What are the duties and privileges?

Cognitive formations
- Company revelations
- Personal revelations

Population Ecology
- Cannot let go
- Inertia
- Sanctioning is a powerful force

Construction of reality
- What is the vision document of US?
- What is the vision of the company?
- Who owns it? CEO? Board? (not the employees)

Governace vs. Capital models
- Communist china engaged in capitalist market.

Understanding needed to advance
Are you synched up?
Do you understand the system?
How does it function?
How do you want it to function?

Entropy?
- 2nd law of thermodynamics
- anything which does not have a positive energy applied to it will tend toward a rest state.
- rest state may be less ordered (ex. water).

Strategy
- Governing systems to generate an outcome.
- positive force on the system.

MBA Academy
- Truth and knowledge
- To advance, explore, challenge
- School of thought
- Others in the academy: BA + Professionals
- Duties and obligations
- Privileges
- Following a doctorate
- Reverence
- Earned
- Obligations to community
-- When not followed, community steps in with SOX.

Posted by ledlogic at September 18, 2007 06:10 PM