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Week 102 of 186 (BMAL 770)

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Week 101 of approximately 186 is in the books in my doctorate program.

It was an interesting week this week in BMAL 770 we had to write a critique of a critique from one of our peers in the course. This was the first time I have ever done this and it was a good exercise in learning how to be somewhat restrained.

It is hard to believe we are already heading into the final two weeks of this course and I have just one more course before the fun really starts in the fall as I begin my project.

Join host Michele Forto as she starts her brand new podcast, Wellness Wednesdays. Please give it a listen and leave an honest review wherever you download your podcasts.

Oh, if you are on Twitter, I highly encourage you to follow the hashtags, #AcademicChatter and #AcademicTwitter both are great threads with advice, motivation, and a very supportive community and if you wouldn’t mind, give me a follow at @robertforto and send me a tweet letting me know you found my blog helpful!

Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and getting close to the finish line! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn. This week she is doing a mock-up Winter Olympics proposal for Anchorage, Alaska. Whoever said grad school was boring!

Score: */40

To read the paper:

Paper will be uploaded later in the week, please check back.

 

Week 101 of 186 (BMAL 770)

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Week 101 of approximately 186 is in the books in my doctorate program.

It was a heavy writing week for BMAL 770 Business Ethics. We had to do a critique of a scholarly paper that is less than five years old from one particular journal. After more than four hours of searching, I finally found one that was interesting to me and met all of the criteria. It is sometimes difficult to critique another scholar’s work when it has already gone through a rigorous editing and peer-reviewed process. Nevertheless, I found a couple of points I could hammer home and hopefully it doesn’t make me look too critical. In a doctorate program, you have to learn how to straddle the fine line between opinion and bias.

Also this week my two podcast hosts and I dove deep and recorded an episode that discusses the hero’s journey as it pertains to character development and organizational change through the lens of the 1985 Rocky IV movie. It was a fun project and will drop in a couple of weeks and I will embed it on a future blog post.

Join hosts Robert Forto, TJ Miller, and Michele Forto as they discuss the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team on the Peak Experience podcast

Oh, if you are on Twitter, I highly encourage you to follow the hashtags, #AcademicChatter and #AcademicTwitter both are great threads with advice, motivation, and a very supportive community and if you wouldn’t mind, give me a follow at @robertforto and send me a tweet letting me know you found my blog helpful!

Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and getting close to the finish line! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn. This week she is doing a mock-up Winter Olympics proposal for Anchorage, Alaska. Whoever said grad school was boring!

Score: 71/75

To read the paper:

Forto article critique

 

Week 100 of 186 (BMAL 770)

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Week 100 of approximately 186 is in the books in my doctorate program.

It is hard to believe that I am halfway through the course already for BMAL 770 Ethics and Leadership. I am getting docked points because of APA issues that have never been a problem in the past. Just know that every instructor grades and interprets APA a little differently and it is important that you show changes in your writing from week to week even if it is only small.

The first paper of the course was due this week and it was a case study on an ethical issue in the Johnson (2018) text. I choose the sweat lodge incident in 2009 where two people died at the hands of a self-proclaimed guru.

It made for some interesting research and a fun paper to write. You can read it here later this week. I learned a very valuable mistake a couple of courses back if I post the pdf of the paper here before it is graded by the professor it will trigger a 100% TurnItIn score! Be careful if you post your work online as I do.

 

Join hosts Robert Forto, TJ Miller, and Michele Forto as they discuss the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team on the Peak Experience podcast

Oh, if you are on Twitter, I highly encourage you to follow the hashtags, #AcademicChatter and #AcademicTwitter both are great threads with advice, motivation, and a very supportive community and if you wouldn’t mind, give me a follow at @robertforto and send me a tweet letting me know you found my blog helpful!

Also, my wife Michele is getting deep into her Master’s program as well and getting close to the finish line! Please do me a favor and follow her over on LinkedIn.

Score: 95/100

To read the paper:

Forto case study assignment Groupthink in the Sweatlodge

The Java Screw

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The Java Screw cocktail Robert Forto
Inspired by our love for coffee and whiskey, this tasty drink was inspired from a TikTok video and our friend’s YouTube channel. It is something that we had to run out and try right away.
You can pick up a little frother at the local grocery for about 12 bucks and it makes instant whipped cream! The secret to this drink is the sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar on top!

🥃 The Java Screw

Ingredients

1.5 oz @screwball_whiskey
1.5 oz cafe dulce coffee liqueur
Top off with frothed heavy cream and a dash of cinnamon sugar over ice

Hiwassee River Water

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When it comes to making whiskey, it’s hard to overstate the importance of the water sources in Tennessee – thousands of creeks and springs that’ve hydrated the process from the start arrive naturally filtered by limestone, pitching in purity and a unique minerality. The aquatic artery Nneka Ijeoma nods to with this cocktail, though, hasn’t factored into the prevailing lore of the spirit, but with a rush of refreshment like this bearing its name, that could change. Have a taste of this cooling mix of whiskey, honeydew, and a bit of lemongrass, and let the chill vibes of a lazy river day wind their way right to you!

Ingredients

1 ½ oz of Tennessee Whiskey

¾ oz honeydew syrup

4 dashes (not drops) lemongrass tincture

3 – 3 ½ oz tonic water

Shaken

Collins Glass

Instructions

  1. Add the whiskey, syrup, and tincture to a shaker. Fill the shaker with ice cubes and shake vigorously until it is ice0cold and shows frost on the outside.
  2. Double strain the shaker’s contents into a Collins Glass over fresh cubed ice, then stir gently and tip with about 1 ½ oz of tonic water -we recommend using your bar spoon to force the carbonation all the way down to the bottom of the glass. Place the spoon, standing straight up, down into the center of the glass. Place the mouth of the soda bottle near the top of the handle, right at the edge of the spoon, and pour, letting the soda spiral down the handle all the way to the bottom of the glass.

Enjoy!