Day Two

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 (Day 2)

We had class with Ed Hill this morning and began talking about management of organizational behavior. Ed is a great storyteller and very enjoyable. He makes a lot of good points very subtly using entertaining stories.

Next up was Donna Miles. I can already tell she’s really going to be a hoot. I liked her right away and I’m excited to get a lot of constructive criticism. I have no doubt that I’m going to have a commanding presence when she gets through with me. She gave us the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator to take home, work through, and score to find out our personality type. Should be interesting.

After lunch we had a couple hours with the director of library research on how to use the USC library system. I was amazed how far library research has come in the ten years since I was in college. We had the opportunity to use about a half dozen of the many database subscriptions that the library has access to. It was astounding to be able to look up any company or industry and get analysis and insight into what they do, how they do it and whether or not they're doing a good job.

We also added a fourth to our carpool today: Dawn Davies from Safeway. It's been raining most of the day here (as it did yesterday and is supposed to do for the next week). I guess it's a good night to get some more reading done.