The End

Dear Friends and Lecturers;

This is the end, I will not be able to write properly on my blog, namely it may be the last entry until September. Today is early hours of Wednesday 2.30 am. I am doing some research about the website which my lecture and also supervisor Peter Vlachos recommended that it would be useful for my dissertation. The webpage was created for those who have been tracking interviews with well known and respectable business people.

Here is the website that you may be interested in;

http://meetingsreview.com/emailers/68/mr-mr-68.htm

Now it is the time to read at least 3 or 4 interviews from the webpage before sleeping. Tomorrow is going to be the same, namely I am occupied by the responsibility of my dissertation.

Have a good day

Orhan Toprakci

Sleepless Nights and Late Night Tales

Dear Friends and Lecturers;

Nowadays, I have not slept properly and stayed all night long to be able to comprehend the general lines of the articles which i have been reading. Frankly, after a while my eyes just stop to do their general duty and I decide to sleep in the morning either 4 or 5.

Meanwhile I have some resits to hand in before my departure to Istanbul, that is to say I shall be quick and efficient. My time grows by skim reading the academic articles and books related to my dissertation and correcting the mistakes which I have done in some previous assignments in the light of feedbacks. I hardly find spare time for myself, the only action that i have not missed in these weeks was going to gym regularly at least one hour and 4 days in a week

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

All the best

Orhan Toprakci

The Arrival of Summer and Researchs

Dear Friends and Lecturers;

I hardly believe, how fast the year passed by and now I found myself with in a room, full of academic article papers and books trying to take note from every single expression which I think they might be useful for my further research.

A lot of friends of mine have either gone to their countries or on holiday, to put it other words I have plently of time to study on my project before my departure to Istanbul. To be honest I should increase the tempo of my studying style as when I will be in Istanbul, there will be no time to work on my topic.

Lastly, I have done a good afford but still think that there will be more to do, read and write.

Have a good holiday wherever you are

Kind Regards

Orhan

Critical Hours

Dear Friends and Lecturers;

It has been a really hard day. I need to do a lot of research today about my dissertation, despite of the feeling of laziness and boredom, I am aware of writing my last assignment with the supportive documents, articles and books as soon as possible. Nowadays i have been busy with the last assignment as I said above. That is to say i had not enough time to do research for my dissertation. However if can manage to submit this last coursework on time, i will be concentrated on my next goal 'the dissertation'.

I do expect to take notes and do research on my subject of dissertation next week on these books;

Mills, D., Q., 2005, Principles of Management. 1^st ed. Waltham, MA: Mind Edge Press

Low, M., B., and MacMillan, I., C., 1988. Entrepreneurship: past research and further challenges, Journal Management, Vol: 14, No: 2, pp.139-161

We have survived the whole academic year by writing thousands of words and now this one is the last assignment that we need to survive before our dissertation.

I hope you all will manage to do your best and get the best results that you are expecting.

Kind Regards.

Orhan Toprakci

The Last Assignment

Dear Friends and Lecturers;

Yes, we are nearly there. We have nearly finished our academic year and this reseach proposal will be the last project of ours which i have been prepearing for after all these troublesome and exhaustive hours and days. However the time has come. We will be free. Besides nowadays I have been still both working and trying to find the right articles and books for my dissertation plus my research proposal. I can proudly declare that I am now taking advantage of what I have searched and got knowledge for my proposal and also for my dissertation project.

Nowadays I have been searching the papers of these books;

Silverman D,. 2001 Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction. Sage, London.

Price, L., T., 2000. Explaining Ethical Failures of Leadership. Vol: 21/4, pp.177-184

Prabhu, G., N., 1999. Social Entrepreneurial Leadership, Vol: 4/3, pp.140-145.

I hope I will be submitted by tomorrow 12th of May. Hold fast, After our tiresome academic year we will be exactly what we have been expecting to be.

All the best

Orhan Toprakci

3.09

It is nearly 3.10 a.m. in the morning and I am still sitting and trying to add some ideas to my assignment but I think I should sleep otherwise I will have no chance to write something on my next assignment which is investment proposal. To be honest still I haven't got any idea what to do for this assignment but hopefully I will check the charity commissions out to find a good company to analyze.

Secondly I feel like I am in the middle of nowhere as the more I get information about my dissertation the more I get confident that is for sure. However in my point of view, knowing where to start is going to play a huge important role. I have done a couple of researches but also sensed a lack of motivation and unwillingness. I estimate it is related with the other assignments that I will have to hand in. The good news is, as far as I am concerned it is just a temporary feeling which everybody might suffer. Another crucial fact that I want to mention is, in these confusing diffucult times discipline comes first and I think I am going to push myself forward by reading more articles so that it will provide a self discipline statement.

Here is another one. Have a look to this article;

Zimmerman, R., 2004. The carriage trade: stay-at-home moms get entrepreneurial. The Wall Street Journal, October 21, pp. A1-A16.

Kind Regards

Orhan Toprakci

New years, Holiday and Researchs

Dear Friends and Lecturers;

Previously I was talking about my struggle on assignments but now let's talk about holidays. As you all know very well, after this week we will have 3 weeks to spend our time with sleeping all day and night long. I do not know what are your plans but i am looking forward to sleeping afterwards.

Joke aside, these 3 weeks will also be crucial for those who are thinking to use this spare time as a productive tool for their future works. I consider myself one of those as time can grow really fast.

Here are the objectives that i set for this holiday;

1. Continue reading academic articles,journals and books to gain more information and knowledge in order to start writing efficiently.

2. Doing research again to find more results which are relevant for my dissertation subject

3. Finally have some rest as without sparing time for myself i will have no energy to accomplish other goals which are shown above.

Lastly, you can see the results that i have found to read and digest for these couple of weeks;

Machiavelli, N., 1984, The Prince. Plymouth, U.S: Bantam Classics

Schneider, M., Teske, P., and Mintrom, M., 1995. Public entrepreneurs: Agents of change in the American government. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Damanpour, F., 1991. Organizational innovation: A meta-analysis of effects of determinants and moderators. Academy of Management Journal, Vol: 34, pp.555–590.

Bateman, T., S., & Crant, M., J., 1993. The proactive component of organizational behavior: A measure and correlates. Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol:14, pp.103–118.

I wish you a merry Christmas with health and prosperity and hope to see you in the next term.

Kind Regards

Orhan Toprakci