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Nov. 8 Does any one in Group1 have a list of the question and individuals you selected for the Inquiry Session 5 on Sept.

From: McKee, Kristi L.
Sent: Tue 11/7/2006 9:30 AM
To: Heimovics, Richard D.
Cc: Burt, Christopher Taylor (UMKC-Student); 'Scott Jarrett'; 'Lind, Matthew'; Taute, Justin Hamilton (UMKC-Student)
Subject: REMINDER--BMA516 Class location

Professor Heimovics, Can you please forward to everyone in our BMA 516 class?

For our group's class project, we would like everyone to meet us at Swinney.

Class will meet at the Swinney Gym in room 233/234 at 7:00pm.

See everyone on Wednesday!

--5-Pack-a-Roos

Nov. 1 Note change in due date. The application paper can be turned in at anytime, but no later than 11-29. I'd prefer hard copies under the door of my office if you plan to turn it in Thanksgiving week. If you leave a paper under my door, drop me an email. heimovicsr@umkc.edu to let me know. Make sure your name is on every page and the pages are numbered.

Oct. 4

Class next week will be in Room 3 where there is a document camera we can use for you to show us what you found.

Note changes in schedule for Oct 11 and Oct. 18 We now have two shared inquiry scheduled on Oct. 18 led by Group 2, Roo Crew and Group 3, Heimovics Maneuver. There will be two periods set aside for planning your learning activities. One id next week Oct. 11 and one Oct. 25. Bring ideas for your learning activity next week. When you submit the shared inquiry be sure to indicate the appropriate session.

Folks,

As mentioned last week, you'll be better served if you come to class hungry this week.

Does anyone have food allergies that we should be aware of?

If you have food allergies or extreme dislikes, please send me an e-mail at JohnRoushkolb@umkc.edu before tomorrow's class.

Thanks!
John

Sept. 21 This is the article I mentioned last night. Here's what I think. What do you think?

The Chronicle is the most important weekly press in higher education, read by most academics. The authors of these findings are from major, quality institutions. The journals in which the research is published are reputable. These are important findings. What do they mean to you? How do you understand and explain them?

What I find interesting in the article is not just the discovery of MBA cheating but also the explanation of the findings provided by the authors. The issue, they say, is a culture of learning which values "greed" and "get it done at all costs" as the guiding MBA value.

Someone said last night that this is one of the few courses in which we talk about values other than returning value to shareholder equity. I think so too.

Leadership is what this course is about. There are many values to guide us in our work as leaders in organizations. This is not to say that increasing share owner value or making money are not important values. But integrity, honesty, valuing and helping others, are as well. Actually in our robust economy, among smart folk like you, I think making money is the easiest of these values to achieve and be guided by, although when you are just getting started, hand to mouth early in your career, it may not seem so.

Last night's discussion was about diversity, but I think we were talking about a lot more. Most major high quality corporations do say "diversity" is a core value. These are the organizations that earn the awards, "the best places to work" you often read about. And the leaders of these organizations who argue for diversity say diversity is not a value to pursue just to make more money, as someone suggested last night, but diversity is the right thing to do. For example, it has been said good managers do things the right way while leaders do the right things.

For example here's what Sprint-Nextel says . You will find the same stance at Cerner, HNTB, and many other of KC's best and most successful companies. Another example: Proctor and Gamble is one of America's best companies and has been for decades. Here is what P and G says.

We can hold many values in life to guide us, about ourselves, our families, our friends, and those with whom we work and lead at work. What are the values that guide you now and in the future of your organizational life?

This course is about leading teams. Learning how to pull a group a people together, setting the conditions for high group performance can result in making a lot of bucks. How we put our teams together can also do a lot more.

Back to the discussion at hand. Helping others we lead live fulfilling lives, being a good citizens in our companies and communities, returning to our communities more that just products or services, being fair and honest, creating a diverse workforce, these are the values that guided Henry Bloch throughout his life, not just after he made his millions. His whole life reflects these values. Making lots of money guided him as well. He'll say it was the easiest part. He was just smart about all these values not just returning share holder equity.

What kind of leader are you becoming? I hope it is someone who can hold a complex and complete set of values as an organizational leader, not just returning value to share holder equity. That was the point I was trying to make last night. What do you think? What values are you learning at Bloch?

(Post Script: Life has taught me that making a lot of money is no big real deal. My wife and I tithed for our portfolio. Ten percent of everything we earned since we moved into our 30's has been invested in different and quality tax differed mutual funds, another kind of diversity. Investing in one's future really works. I wish we could have started earlier, but we were hand to mouth for quite a while. The longer you tithe, the richer you become. This a very simple formula that has made us a sizable portfolio 30 years later. I learned this without ever earning an MBA, by the way, poor me. But you don't need to be very smart to learn this life lesson. It is very easy.)

Dr. Heimovics, For our group's shared inquiry, we're going to really shake up the norms. Could you tell the class to come hungry and bring a few bucks (or a credit card) for dinner. I would also like to sit down with you and go over our group's plan, as it's quite radical. When would you be available to chat for about 15 minutes? ---- John Roushkolb Graduate Assistant, Sports Information UMKC Intercollegiate Athletics --Sent from my Sprint PCS Treo 700P--

Sept 19 Daphne Tabbytite dropped the course for personal reasons. Grp 3 needs a new point person.

This e-mail may be misdirected; if so, don't shoot the messenger. I had a request from an instructor who teaches in room 114 on Tuesdays and Thursdays that the room is occasionally being re-arranged into a circle/semi-circle format, and then left that way when a previous instructor leaves the room. Although we're not certain, it appears that the reconfiguration is occurring sometime late on Wednesday.

A favor: If you're using this arrangement with your class, which is perfectly OK, please take a minute or two when the class wraps up to put the tables back in their "standard" arrangement so that the following instructor can "hit the ground running." Most important, let me know if this e-mail should be going to someone else. Thanks much.

Oct. 4 We meet next week Oct.11 in room 3 to have access to a doc camera on which you can present your findings.

See message on the Bulletin Board posted 9:45AM Tr Aug 24 about modification to "Other Activity" preparation for next class.

I erased it as I don't need any Viagra and assume no one else in the class needs any either, or has a supplier already. Humph!.

I moved the location for posting of inquiries as a fix. It doesn't change anything for you. Continue to post as before.

Nothing seems easy in this digital world. In the future if you find spam on the posting page, before I do, let me know. I'll erase it and try another fix.

(Did you here the about the guy who swallowed a Viagra pill, it got caught in his throat when he swallowed, and he ended up with a stiff neck. Ho ho!)

Aug 24 First shared inquiry postings due Noon next Monday. Let's make the first ones, really good ones. When they are, our time together is always more interesting.

Aug. 24 I sent the class an email message 9:45 AM Aug 24. If you didn't get it, you are not checking your UMKC email which you need to do to stay up with this class. If you are using other email (e.g., Yahoo or you company's email) you can direct your UMKC email to that email.

Aug. 24 Changes were made to Other Activity on the Schedule for next class because we didn't get to other introductory matters last night.

Take a brief look at this CNN article and then Power Point at: Intro to Making Sense of Behavior. I want to talk from it next class Aug 30. It is an important argument for how to think about and understanding our own and other's behavior. The argument is the rational for the design of the course and it explains Hackman's basic argument that a leader can effect other's actions by creating the best situation for high performing teams rather than trying to "fix" the behavior of individual team members. I want to try to help explain his basic argument. Also look briefly at Job Design, from earlier work by Hachman and a guy named Oldham. It may not be clear to you yet, but Job Design also makes the same theoretical argument for the design of this course. You need to understand this argument to understand the basis for the design of BMA516. In other words, this is very important stuff to know about in introduction to the course.

Aug. 11 Please let me know if you happen to find a missing, confusing, or incorrect link. heimovicsr@umkc.edu

Aug. 11 When you submit your shared inquiry questions, remember, after you hit "Submit Comments," you must reload (or "refresh") the page with your browser in order to see your posted. Submit the posting only once. Otherwise multiple copies of your will appear. Trust the system; it works.