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One week until Semester 1 finals

September 30th, 2009by Randy Zwitch · No Comments · Semester 1

It seems too ridiculous to type, but next Wednesday marks the starting period for the Semester 1 exams.  Between October 7th and October 11th, the push will be on: get all the class assignments done, study, then take the Accounting exam, followed by Managerial Effectiveness.  At this point, I’m not even concerned with GMI and [...]

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Planning for Dubai

September 25th, 2009by Randy Zwitch · No Comments · Semester 2

It’s hard to believe that it’s already time to start planning for Dubai!  This week, I booked my flight, which looks like it has the potential to really hurt.  First flight gets me to D.C., then from D.C. to Dubai will take nearly 13 hours.  Repeat on the way home. Round-trip, I’ll spend 30 hours [...]

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Optimism Bias

September 20th, 2009by Randy Zwitch · No Comments · General, Semester 1

It’s starting to become a weekly occurrence that I have an “Eureka!” moment after the Managerial Effectiveness class.  Yesterday, we dealt with two topics: overconfidence in estimates and decision making, and strategies for managing conflict in decision making teams.
As a professional prognosticator of probability, managing overconfidence is something I really need to be aware of. [...]

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