Class Notes: Brooke Bolofsky

[Brookebolofsky]

9/10/19
Notes:
Use fishbowl
Take notes always
Working in groups/teams
He sees the world through personal experiences
How do we see the world?
“I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you” - water fire (providence)
Class requires immersion in a practical sense you give the class at least 15 min a day
Quick response like twitter
Vocabulary is very important and it expands your view of the world
Goal: increase vocabulary throughout this course
Copying is okay as long as you understand/comprehend it
Letters and fishbowl are homework
Look up the words in the letters that are in vocabulary section and put that in fishbowl vocabulary and look up definitions
Tips: try to not use the dictionary in the computer use a physical dictionary (american heritage dictionary fifth edition) - copy it from there and change words to make sense
Take notes and make notes
Notes: taking and making notes
From class
Vocabulary: developing concept
Vocab with definition from dictionary
Reading: deconstructing letters
Having understanding the letter and rewriting what it is saying in one complex sentence
Interactive assignments
Characteristics to successful businesses
Successful business organizations
Individual assignments
Always do things that you will be learning

Always posting one sentence
How do we learn?
Imagination sharing images and talking about experiences and projecting it done through a felt experience (his generation got in touch with his inner child now people are getting in touch with their image)
How you see the world? What is the image in your mind?
How does Sanjiv see the world?
1. We are learning one word at a time
2. We are learning how to create word structures and sentences
3. We are sharing the images that are words evoke
As we do this we become a society and so strong that we become a tight knit group
When he asks us to do something he does it to “ you have to put yourself to the same task”
You can get anything you want

[Brookebolofsky]

Class Notes 9/17/19
Maximizing return for money
(Metaphor) When you enter the fishbowl you are entering the gym, exercising your mind, looking in the mirror and seeing how does your mind look
Like a gymnasium - you want to be exercising
Your mind yourself and the words your typing
If the letters get ahead of you and start piling up do not worry
In the fishbowl you are learning to create jobs/create a society and how to succeed with coworkers mentors will help to teach and guide you
Connectivity is big because of technology in the class with your group and with other classes
I am making a commitment to reach every text of my group members
Connection with other people will happen in my head
It happens through the exchange of symbols: are words
Values: words
We connect through words
We lead symbolic lives
Nothing exists outside of words
We lead textual lives: we lead lives of words
writing our words for the group- to add value to the group: carefully selecting words
Restructuring creates value : we are learning to recreate value
You are creating knowledge
Divisions and subdivisions
Creating knowledge and own reality, sociality, sustaining each others life(taking care of each other, adding value to group or exchange)
Interaction is in the head and doing it form the point of view group members will benefit
Distraction means I am not slowing down, I am not focusing and i am not selecting my words.
No substituting them to create value
Entering here to create value for other people here
Our differences are realized in our mental structures and we want to get at that: these differences are realized from selection of words differences in words that we selected meaning of words
We are trying to connect against across the differences
Key question throughout the semester “How so?”
Aghast: filled with horror or shock.
Social meeting exercise:
1. Pre individual: writing your notes out before the meeting, how you are feeling about the meeting
2. Etno graphic notes: open ended, social, over a drink, talk about everything besides class
Write down everything that happened after you leave the meeting
3. Circle six words /symbols and pairing them up
4. Pairing them up into 3 pairs
Have them be a dichotomy (.../…)
5. Two words should not be related to each other (opposites)
6. Take the meaning of the words further look their definitions in the dictionary
7. Create a simple sentence from the words you got. Total of 3 sentences
8. After each sentence write a paragraph short describing the social meeting/ should go with the sentence
9. 3 sentences
3 paragraphs
3 dichotomy
Creating history has possibility has to do with the symbols “ palo ferriera”
NUANCE: a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound.
You do not want to copy someone else you want to experience the connectivity : experience things for yourself - look for difference

[Brookebolofsky]

One foot in
Determine your own structure within your group
Communication is key
Responses are equivalent to lecturing
You are learning to construct meaning- not searching for truth of letter- constructing for yourself
The approach is deconstruction - take each word, go into dictionary to substitute that word, substitute the word, “reframe” the sentence
Innovation- are you innovative?
How are you creative?
Can only innovate if you are open to ideas, different substituted words
What does it symbolize- pick a word for text and say that is what it symbolizes
No right or wrong just take the action
Social meeting- breaks the ice
Friendship in the workplace= easier, happier
Become an identifiable group
Intersubjective spaces-
Your selective words symbols are making an impact to the group
Eyes looking at eyes
Learning non- linear thinking it is not about being confused.
We are craftsman of words
Critical thinking
Working to be a phenomenologist

[Brookebolofsky]

Trying to form a social between us

Universe= class

unit= 3 of us as a group interacting within the context (the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed)

Diversity helps = fantastic social work will be good , key to success

Transnational corporations, global businesses- Batlett and Ghosal from Harvard

Develop 4 factors knowledge and knowing of a 4 successful factors of a global business
Integrated networking structures


Fishbowl : 10+ 1 steps:
Structure- integrated network structure, entering the unknown with a given structure, always with a structure never without,
Word pool- gathering words, contextual relevant , go to the dictionary bigger the better, integrated/network/structure- write down words relating to those words, gather as many words as possible
Re-structure- rewriting the sentence, selection process, substitute words, use all 3 concepts integrated/network/structure, relate (make or show a connection between), abstraction

Fe Felt- experience- sentence to replace, integrated/network/structure, first person “I”, describing an incident , explaining it, coming from memory, experiential, thinking, interpreting, imagining, visualizing, must be grounded in experience, not fictional, point of us
*3 and 4 fit together

1/2/3 : 1/2/3: 1/2/3 - start interaction, need group members here, perceptual category, reduction technique , representation, interpretation, reducing to one word a symbol , you do not want to be told what to think, nine words

A/B- interactively, jointly determining what two words to form dichotomy out of the 9 words, jointly
Word pool- jointly
Structure- inflection point, ideas are going both ways, contingent on dichotomy you have created
Fe felt- experience- on your own again, 3 felt experiences, perceptual categories
1/2/3: 1/2/3: 1/2/3 - perceptual categories
Final paragraph: insight, understanding and realization

Dynamic decision making- go slow

[Brookebolofsky]

Catch up - to move on
Learn more
Shift your attention in this course
Hard copy hand in to get feedback
Successful global business
Constructing
Creating knowledge= own your own creating something with text and images, which you can sell and has value for someone else
Creating sociality
Learning to create a better society
Sharing knowin and creating knowledge - through self reflection - to create something of value
Self reflection what goes through your mind when looking at word, symbol, text
Add value to the group
Participant observation
Symbolic interaction
Action research
Auto ethnography
Looking at diversity differently
Looking at selection
Highlights we are all unique “highlights we are all footnotes but at the center of the page” affects the group keeps us connected to add value to the group
Creating value through value
It is important to praise one another - enhancing each other- have to look at what the other person is doing
Sentence structure is an abstraction
Journey is mid-wards
Never ending story movie
Integrated networking structure: On your own
Realization- an act of becoming fully aware of something as a fact
Insight- the capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of a person or thing.
self reflection, social reflection
Aghast- filled with horror or shock.
Peter Senge- learning organization - fifth discipline- a group of people working together collectively to enhance their capacities to create results they really care about

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Class notes:
- hand in integrated networking structure
- Sanjiv creating an analysis
- we decide the structure we create
- product is always digital : product is called whatever you call yourself
- Abstract
- taking notes is important
- talk to each other as equals and enhance each others - leveraging each other
- idealization is practical rooted in felt experience
- get in touch with words important
- focus and curiosity
- CMC- Computer-mediated communication
- as graduate play the role sanjiv is playing- teacher
- leader is a teacher
- integrated networking structure
- next one is give all three
1. integrated networking structure
2. complex adaptive systems
3. dynamic decision making
4. unique integrated capabilities
- characteristics of successful global businesses / organizations : the way we do business today

[Brookebolofsky]

Class notes:
- everyone got a-/b+ work harder and get an A-
- meeting in class is important/ to clear things up with group
- even if class is repetitive still come it is important
- self reflections- can have examples: example from personal life, a moment it happens it is fragile (break easily)
- shift takes place in perception we want to capture
- empowered by comments- revisit what you have written
- underline phrases and raise how so is the question
- take the words further, the simpler it becomes - makes felt experience easier
- learning is preceding in leaps and bounds
- all goes back to felt experience
- learning to do deep thinking / deep learning
- googling is a methodology
- what does he see when we google?
- reflexive leadership
- abstract expressionism- artist term became big in 1940-1950's: "Abstract expressionism is the term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often characterised by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity"
- Things we have done: (notes professor has made)
-we have captured and configured spontaneity very consciously
-performative writing (active learning)
-started with an empty canvas, entered with a structure, then started creating something (a painting on the canvas)
-something intrinsically american : freedom and individuality, we were free to select whatever word we wanted, reflected the individual self
-developed each paper as a free individual style
-papers aren’t intellectual they are action oriented, not philosophical
-you are developing a form of writing and you can take any form you want
- freedom and individuality
- not representing something else just representing something totally different
- singularity
- movement of ideas in paper is happening through subconscious
- choices we make are manifestations
- paper is signature of the mind
- have made an imprint of your mind
- papers change the way you think
- going into the inner self shown the journey is inwards not outwards
- layers of depth in the papers
- deliberative process
- process is the product
- selling the process
- all over the place composition: the nature of something's ingredients or constituents; the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.
- does not have a clear focus points
- sweeping statements which embody and elicit emotions
- anyone can do it but only you can have written that
- your privilege is to take ownership of words
- deconstruct other person
- paradox anyone can do it only you can have written your paper
- opening the words and deconstructing them
- throw in felt experience
- empowered itself
- action writing/ active learning/ performative learning
- learning from unconscious and revealing hidden truths
- signature technique
- like in fashion
- sharing technique and asking viewer to do the same thing
- Inspiration Excerpt- Jackson Pollack : splatter painting "American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement"
- "You can't build Rome in a day"

[Brookebolofsky]

- 4 structures- in total
- once they are done semester is finished
- will be finished by Thanksgiving
- some papers are done so perfectly: did what was asked and has effected him and whoever reads it
- in the second round read again- raise the question how so?
- for final grading he will be grading what is posted in the fishbowl- he will be reading it all post everything
- gives out B, B+, A-, A: if you get an A you will get a letter of recommendation from Sanjiv
- Feedback is saying things in different way so we can understand
- wants to see that we get what we are doing and can move on
- stepping back, sleeping on it and raising the how so question
- How so? = forcing you to think deeper
- change the audiences life
- come up with anecdote takes time does not come automatically
- to do the deep thinking is an effort does not come easily
- logistics- good not to miss class, not in touch, alleviate fears and stress

- second abstract- not happy about it- read them and know where it is going
- keep reading his letters
-if the organization you belong to is rich and country you belong to is rich- always show up to these conferences = trying to beat that system
- strategize is our approach
- get our name into the conference if people type our name our paper comes up
- in class we may feel

-1st hurdle is getting the paper done by the 21st
- write the authors names 135 of us
- problem is people who do not show up or do their assignments

- this is important
- getting along with teams is critical
- in all aspects of life and business
- Peter Senge- learning organization
- effectiveness how well the team is getting along

- on the 21st type ins 135 names and addresses
- has to figure out who to cut out of the paper
- friendship abstract is stronger
- fight for resources through text

- engagement and expression for building knowledgeable content
- Engagement- engaging with outside world
- expression- inside world
both adding value, creating meaning

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- Mike T
- spoke about selfies
- 4 characteristics of globalization
- pull out the text felt integrated network, dynamic decision, complex adaptive system, unique
how did we experience?
- take the selfie
- pull out paragraphs of own text and underneath it, sound professional,

can do textual not selfie if want:
FINAL DUE 12/17 ALL IS DUE!!!!!!

talking about four global phenomenon
- make it anecdotal
- interaction had in fishbowl and with one another in groups
- share your story with felt experience
for all 4 of the structures


written option 3 pages:
- individually
addressing
4 global phenomenon
looking back our experiences and adding value to it
reflecting on doing the 4 things