The first module was amazing. Between the tremendous desire to get started with our MBA and the excitement to meet so many new people from so many corners of the globe; we didn’t notice that at the end of the module we had an assignment to complete. An ‘Oxford Style’ essay with five thousands words of a subject that no body agrees about: What do managers do.
Does any body know what managers do? I don’t; and I have been working as such for more than 8 years. It gets worse. When you start to sink your teeth into the recommended literature; you find that there are as many definitions of managers and leadership as scholars have tried to define it.
After skimming two books and studying fourteen white papers you have a revelation; this assignment will look great if you had six months to prepare it, but you have only a couple of weeks to read all literature, analyse it and finally write your essay. Against your will and your better judgment you need to make a crucial decision. Stop reading and start writing. Before I knew it I had more than six thousands words that was in a desperate need of cleaning, editing and finally cutting down to five thousands words as required by the assignment. The first draft is finished and you don’t like it. You want to start to write everything from scratch but you get a wake up call. The pre reading for the next module is already in your inbox and it looks massive. Time to submit your essay with your fingers crossed and with one hand covering your eyes. Done!!! Did I survive this one? Don’t know until the results come back, but I don’t have a lot of time to dwell on it as the next module is already here and it looks scary; Decision Science.
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