(Post) MBA Blog

It's 6 o' clock and most of the events have been played out. The score is brutal, but we console ourselves that we are in fact better looking than our counterparts at Oxford. And cooler.

Anyway, we lost football 3-1, we lost table tennis (yes, I'm the captain) 10-2 and we just lost chess 3-2.

I am confident, however, that we will win the bar olympics at Queens, to be played out over the coming hours.

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Having just taken the Myers-Briggs test, I can now announce to the world who I really am: INTP!

That means:
More Introverted than Extroverted
More iNtuition than Sensing
More Thinking than Feeling, and
More Perceiving than Judgement

For a rundown on the types, see team technology or personality pathways.

To be fair, I fought the careers councillor all the way when pinning down my type. I'm not sure it's a good idea getting an ex-philosopher to do a psychometric test ;)

It turns out that I am destined to be a strategy consultant. I better get cracking on the applications then!

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Tonight a bunch of us MBAs popped over to St Catherine's College to hear Anthony Giddens speak on Globalisation.

He described the three phases of Globn.: the scholarly debate as to whether it extisted (80s & 90s), the rise of the protesters in the mid 90s and the coming together of protesters and corporates to figure out what should be done.

He then said something interesting, that the most powerful driver of Glob. was not economics but rather communications technology, since that was what allowed Glob. to take place at all.

Giddens also spoke a little about the USA, and recommended that we get rid of Bush before the US can engage properly with the world again. This was met with a round of applause!

An useful evening all in all, even if I don't agree with his point that the media is keeping a check on corporate and governmental shenanigans (they may report it, but guess what - the people just don't give a damn!). I have to say, I'm more Silverstone than Giddens.

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