Here are your (updated) groupings, at last.My thinking had been that groups were needed in China, and not before. But I learn that your work in groups is part of your overall program in the EMBA. You need your groupings sooner, not later.
There will be four times during the visit in SH and BJ during which I will need to meet with groups, in many cases over a working lunch at or near our hotel. That schedule will be on the blog and I'll have it for you this weekend. The Health Group will meet as a large group (not split into groups I and II).
The point of the groups (from my POV) is to share related learning with one another and build a more general vision of the theme or themes of the respective groups for presentation to the while class at the end of this unit.
The other (and formerly out of my blinkered view) value of these groups: to provide a setting for sharing pre-trip, as a reality check, and a general support for this excursion. Dr. Gallos, who has your collective back on these matters, deserves thanks for pointing this out to me. Without further ado:
CULTURE/ The value of meanings
Christy Cubbage
Tayro Christiano
Ron Coker
Steve Evans
Ravi Peru
Per Stromhaug
Scott West
FINANCE/ The meaning of value & values
Montira Clippard
Laurel Harbour
Julie Kempker
Jolene Jefferies
Melissa Walton
Eddie Dziuk
Jon Roos
HEALTH/ Group I: Health & healing
John Sallis
Chet Jackson
Patricia Beatty
Corlis Panis
Angela Connelly
Health/ Group II: Health & healing
Timothy James
Melanie Morris
Becky Sandring
Dan Soliday
INDUSTRY/TECH: Making & marketing things of value
Gordon Brest • Natasha Clark
Tom Burke • Michael O’Grady
John McClelland • Girish
Andrew Jones • Brad Peak
John Miller • Mark Amick
I love Koi fish! The image is so appropriate for the teamwork topic and China.
ReplyDeleteKoi fish have stood for perseverance & strenght and you will see plenty of them through out Asia and even in some Chinese resturants in the U.S.
The world Koi is short for the Japanese word Nishikigoi, which means "living jewels" in English. Stories told were that Koi was the only fish able to swim up the river falls. According to Japanese legend if a koi succeeded in climbing the falls at a point called Dragon Gate on the Yellow River it would be transformed into a dragon. Based on that legend, it became a symbol of worldly aspiration and advancement. Thus, a nice symbolic image for our group. Dr. Bolman would be proud...
And, in Buddhism, the Koi is important because its eyes never close, reminding us to be awake and aware. Thanks for that Dragon Gate story! I never heard that.
ReplyDeleteOur group rocks!!! Julie, Montira, Jolene, and Eddie. The "WU" team!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Koi fish are really cool. Koi 鯉
Anyone find the list of prescription medications we can take? Everything we have been given has been a dead end. I can find nothing on the Chinese Embassy Website.
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteYou take whatever you want. No one will bother you. No one will search your luggage. No one will ask you what you are bringing in to the country. Just fill out the forms correctly, and have your Rx stuff correctly labeled. You'll be fine. You can buy most Rx things over-the-counter in a lot of places, by the way, and often the quality of the pharma product is quite good (a lot of it comes from Australia. . .).