This Saturday the GIBS MBA Blue group 2011/2012 class spent the day with Professor Dave Beaty. http://www.2btassociates.com/pdfdocs/Resume_dtb.pdf
His wisdom and knowledge comes from working in a wide range of different posts including the Pentagon and as a professional golf mind guru. He applied his magic on our class. His wand touched our careers as we unlocked our “Career Anchors”. http://www.careeranchorsonline.com/SCA/startPage.do
He deftly manoeuvred the entire class into understanding the importance of co-operation through his Big Foot/Little Foot game.
We learned about a career mishap that befell on the protagonist George, in our first cartoon case study. The parable revealed layers of learning that had everyone in the class promising to make BIG mental notes not to fall into his “Peter principle” syndrome. It cost him his job. Another insight from the case was “where was management?” while George slid into a management billabong.
This is what separates the GIBS MBA from the other MBA’s in South Africa. We are not stuck in silos; we are being elevated to a strategic advantage point high above the day-to-day management idiosyncrasies and ruts. We are undergoing a leadership metamorphosis.
See you at GIBS.
