Liz lemon what is business school

In one of my favorite episodes of 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy drags Liz Lemon along to a corporate retreat. There, among fellow managers and industry gurus Jack is the CEO of General Electric , he participates in team building exercises designed to hone soft leadership skills. As Jack reconnects with his fellow business bigwigs each of whom "embodies a pillar of the Six Sigma Business Philosophy: teamwork, insight, brutality, male enhancement, handshakefulness and play hard" , Liz is left alone first to observe and eventually participate in the strange docket of workshops.

During L. While "Retreat to Move Forward," as this episode is called, finds the humor in team building retreats, it also oddly parallels the last week at SOM.

Since Monday, the first years have engaged in a week-long mini-course called "Managing Groups and Teams". With our first round of finals behind us insert sigh of relief here! We've formally analyzed our leadership and communication styles and have likewise explored the leadership personalities of our seven fellow Cohort Group teammates. By taking the time to deliberately weigh our strengths and preferences, we hope to maximize our personal growth and the experience and results of our team over the next year.

A diverse array of hands-on activities has structured all of this introspection. On Monday, we learned how to interpret our "Insights Discovery Profile," which placed us in one of eight leadership style categories based on a survey of questions that we answered.

The profiles highlighted our strengths and our potential "blind spots" as leaders and even indicated our "opposite style type" and how best to manage that type.

Tuesday was seemingly spent in explicit homage to 30 Rock : creating trusting relationships with members of our cohort groups in the morning and team-constructing a "LegoMan" from a model that we could study and draw from memory but not physically handle. The exercise tested our abilities to coordinate, specialize and strategize so as to produce a final product as quickly and efficiently as possible.

I made every mistake you can in a negotiation: I spoke first, I smiled, I negotiated with myself. If I had done that in a mock negotiation in business school, Professor Widmer would have spanked me in front of the whole class - bare bottom! Liz Lemon : OK, but it's harder with someone like a nanny, right? I mean, there's an emotional component: she takes care of your baby. Jack Donaghy : Lemon, you just had a structural, analytic insight. Professor Widmer would have given you a "Good Job" spanking!

Liz Lemon : What IS business school? Jack Donaghy : In addition, I have a huge presentation coming up. Meeting Magazine is already calling it "the first great meeting of the decade. Jack Donaghy : Lemon, a word. Hang on. Recent breakup, fanny pack, cat? Who is the lead character on NCIS? Jack Donaghy : In your office, now.

Liz Lemon : There's only one question I can't answer. Who was Anders? An old Harvard chum of Toofer's? The son of one of Jack's senator friends? Jack Donaghy : Do you realize what you're doing to me, Sherry?