This is my personal blog. Find out what i'm doing and what i'm thinking, along with a heap of entertaining content! JOSH JANSSEN - MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA About me.
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Some people get a kick out of giving money to the poor, I get a kick out of giving my money to the best computer company in the world, Apple. So after using itunes to play my limewire downloaded music for about 4 years, I decided to take the jump into paying for my music downloads. Yes I have done it before and blogged about it, but that wasnt using a software based system and didnt have the sweet intergration of itunes.
Yep, I did it, I used itunes to PURCHASE music and I feel fantastic! I don’t know why I feel so good, whether it is the playlist that itunes adds called ‘Purchased’ or if its the awesome intergration with last.fm. But i can now sleep at night knowing my purchase has helped some indie band feed their drug/prostitute addiction
I was looking at my blog stats. Not only can I see how many people are visiting my blog, but I can also find out how my visitors are getting to my website. This is my favourite one - this was typed in on google to find me:
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So, if you didn’t know, my heart has had a missing piece… I am going to call that piece ‘work experience at Rove’. But, that might all change! Rove is accepting one person for work experience. I created my 30 second application video, put up a website www.josh4workexperience.com - made another video for the website and now i must wait
Being involved in 3 schools over nearly 13 years as a student, most of which as a student leader, I have experienced the ‘brick walls’ when trying to get things done. All organizations, including schools, must have policies and procedures. The reason for this is clear; to have core organizational values and to respect the responsibility of duty of care. There is no denying that it is important to have a structure, but the problem begins when ‘the structure’ effects efficiency and communication.
Over the past two years at the VCE school I am attending i have observed numerous staff and students frustrated at the difficulty at getting things done.
How can you fix this?
Well at the moment, to get anything done you have to speak to a principal or ‘manger’. Four people that can say yes or no to your requests. First of all, the easiest answer is no. Which is why when asking for something related to you specialist field ( subject ) and management doesn’t understand, they generally say no. = your on your backfoot to begin with.
Not only does this make it harder to make positive change, but it also creates negative staff and management relationships.
A better way I believe to manage is by using adhocracy. Adhocracy was best summed up by Alvin Toffler ( writer of future shock ) who said ” Adhocracy is organized chaos.”Its the opposite of bureaucracy. The idea that not everyone in a company is a total dead-shit who can’t be trusted with making decisions.
I believe that if my school ( or any organization ) took the adhocracy approach it would boost staff/student morale, as well as increase efficiency and reduce work load on management.
You need to be more flexible and accept change, technology and lifestyle is always changing, you need to be able to adapt, or you will be left behind!
Josh
