1. Mr. Niall Douglas

2. 1. Went on a business trip to London for a week 2. Wrote and submitted an academic paper 3. Sold some phones (bloody FedEx!) 4. Started conducting information warfare against Google no less...

3.  9am-9.30am: Week 6 and 7 exam results  9.30am-9.45am: Business Critical Thinking Skills Lecture Plan  9.45am-11am: Video worksheet on “The Century of the Self (part 1)”  11.20am-12pm: Pronunciation  12pm-12.40pm: Business vocab  12.40pm-1.20pm: Reading work

4. AttendanceVocabWrittenProjectPercentGrade 100%84%60%45%66.84%2H1 100%80%65%40%65.55%2H1 100%77%55%45%63.02%2H2 100%66%65%45%62.91%2H2 100%60%40% 52.10%3H 75%33%60%45%48.83%Pass 25%65%40%45%47.40%Pass 50%39%65%25%43.64%Pass 50%55%40%25%41.05%Pass 50%53%30%25%37.28%Fail 100%40%Fail 100%40%Fail 100%35%Fail 100%35%Fail 75%35%Fail 75%35%Fail 75%25%Fail

6. AttendanceVocabWrittenProjectPercentGrade 100%62%65%74%70.36%1H 100%88%20%84%67.54%2H1 75%83%65%52%67.48%2H1 75%88%10%84%62.04%2H2 75%85%10%84%61.31%2H2 75%61%40%74%60.00%2H2 50%70%40%71%59.15%3H 75%61%55%52%57.89%3H 75%77%10%74%55.75%3H 75%68%20%71%55.29%3H 75%67%40%52%55.22%3H 100%70%20%52%52.45%3H 25%52%30%74%49.43%Pass 75%63%0%71%47.82%Pass 75%60%0%71%46.73%Pass 100%28%0%84%43.61%Pass 25%74%Fail

8.  One definite problem was that all but one of the spreadsheets supplied in Week 7 didn’t follow the design specified in the task. The spreadsheet MUST have: 1. An input sheet containing ONLY the inputs 2. A calculations sheet 3. A report sheet containing ONLY the outputs (Show an example sheet...)

9.  Week 6: International Law  Week 7: Banking and Finance Mean81%61%52%37%53% Max100%84%65%45%67% Min25%33%30%25%37% AttendanceVocabWrittenProjectOverall Mean74%68%27%70%57% Max100%88%65%84%70% Min25%28%0%52%44%

10.  Questions?

11.  We are now into our last two weeks together... Boo hoo!  My opinion is that we ought to make best use of it in improving you  I am very glad to report that early this morning (2am!) Carol Springer from Georgia State University gave me permission to use the full Business Critical Thinking Skills syllabus – all eight stages from her 2004 and 2007 papers

12.  This is the continuation of the Safe Night Out (SNO) group task you had in Week 7  Here is what I am proposing: 1. You stay in the groups you were in Week 7 2. We reduce how much readings and vocab you must do (we have two weeks for the European Union) 3. We move to doing a Group Task starting tomorrow (Tuesday) due for Thursday 4. When then have TWO Group Tasks starting Thursday due for Monday next week

13.  And then next week, to put you in a very realistic Business environment:  Very small readings and vocab on the EU next week  And a SNO group task each night due for the following morning  This will cover all eight of the SNO syllabus stages  Each group task is the format as before: (i) Spreadsheet (ii) Presentation and (iii) Report

14.  This wouldn’t affect your TOEIC prep and other English language studies  We normally have two hours of theory and two hours of ELT each day, so this only affects the theory part  I suppose it depends on how much you like “the theory of the European Union”...

15.  Why would this be a good idea? 1. Remember from surveys of Business that Presentation skills are highly lacking in typical Business school graduates 2. Remember that effectively organising oneself and one’s group is also typically highly lacking in graduates 3. And so are critical thinking skills in general...  It will be a lot of work for both me and for you – I have to grade all these each night!  Do you think you can cope with this?

16.  Remember how I have been telling you about “cultural software”?  This is “programmed” by corporations to make us all behave a certain way (i.e. Buy stuff we don’t need)  For example, when women feel bad about themselves they feel an impulse to go shopping for a new dress or new shoes. This is programmed into women by corporations – it never happened 100 years ago...

17.  The following documentary is about the history of propaganda (nowadays called “public relations”)  This is the first part of four parts – it is about a man called Edward Bernays  He invented public relations – and had a massive influence on each and every one of you, and your parents, and your grandparents

18.  He invented “the consumer”  He changed how we used to perceive society as us being citizens/subjects to us being consumers  He invented making people buy stuff they don’t want or need  And interestingly, he did this for our own good...

21.  Explain Tonight’s reading

22.  Explain this week’s Group Task