Hmmm, this journey is really good - it lasts around 6 days, and every day I find that I've got new themes to think about. Although I started to think about my MBA consultancy idea today, I found that it wouldn't come into focus. Instead I was thinking about my own PhD, which is about management by relationships in a knowledge economy.
This idea is that control is a very difficult if not impossible task to do with knowledge workers - they know too much about their own areas to take control from someone who doesn't have as much knowledge. I've made it work in life, and now I want to know why.
But I'm confronted by the fact that most managers do the control bit as if it was the whole of the job. My line of thought at the moment is how you deconstruct some of this control stuff in a program such as an MBA.
At the moment I'm in the middle of a journey - of various kinds. I've changed my job; well, not my job exactly, I'm doing the same thing for another educational institution. However, in order to change employers, I have to move some thousand miles, and onto another island - my last job was on the South Island in New Zealand, and my new one is at the north end of the North Island.
Travelling is good "head space", and I've started some interesting lines of thought on this journey. One is how I can maximize my potential for business consultancy during my time in this new job. I'm determined that I could use my network of MBA graduates, both as potential clients and as consultants themselves. Geographical distance is no real barrier, so I'm scheming about what to do and how to do it.
Watch this space!
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