{"id":159,"date":"2011-03-27T14:58:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2011-03-27T14:58:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:58:56","slug":"early-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Early Exit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For once I am leaving the library ahead of schedule!\u00a0 I arrived at 1130 and have had a very productive 5 hour session.\u00a0 My productivity was \u201claunched\u201d by some early morning thinking.\u00a0 Increasingly, I am realizing that my best idea generation occurs early in the morning,\u00a0when I am partially awake and very relaxed.\u00a0 I was able to see how key\u00a0concepts and discussions about\u00a0datasets that I have had over the past few weeks can come together for a practical and original solution.\u00a0\u00a0 My thesis will focus on integrating several areas of the literature that exist in isolation but not in combination.\u00a0 I am hoping that I can use Structured Equation Modelling to evaluate relationships between gender, leadership style, engagement and REAL business results.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I now have a very rough draft research proposal that is about 7000 words.\u00a0 I plan to write another 1000 early next week and then submit the draft paper to my supervisor.\u00a0 I have a\u00a0school week scheduled for the first week in April, I will use this time\u00a0to focus\u00a0complete a solid draft for my supervisor&#8217;s review on April 6.\u00a0 We will then meet on April 11<sup>th<\/sup> to do a final review.\u00a0 It remains an aggressive schedule but I am committed to staying on track.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am heading out shortly to complete some errands.\u00a0 Looking forward to this evening, dinner and dancing \u2013woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For once I am leaving the library ahead of schedule!\u00a0 I arrived at 1130 and have had a very productive 5 hour session.\u00a0 My productivity was \u201claunched\u201d by some early morning thinking.\u00a0 Increasingly, I am realizing that my best idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/?p=159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-proposal","category-supervisor","category-highs-and-lows-of-the-dba-journey","category-time-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingadba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}