People wrote books and articles about anything you will ever want to know..

The more I look for something the more I come to conclusion that if I got interested in something it is only so because many other people wrote a whole collection of books and articles on the topic. Because original ideas never come to my mind. Even when I think that I've got a very cute and deep thought and I write it somewhere - people think that I'm quoting somebody...

Road Ahead

So the assignments are done and now the real lonely journey starts.
Feeling a bit scared and unsure. The questions:
- What do I plan to accomplish?
- why do I want to do it?
- how am I going to do it?
And I'm full of doubt - why do I do it? For that matter - I'm deeply in doubt - why do I do anything at all?
Feeling like staying on an abandoned road in the middle of the night. I have no wish neither to go forward nor back. What am I seeking? I do not even know what is valuable for me. Nothing in the past that I want to return, nothing that inspires me now, nothing that I'm dreaming of in the future.
Maybe I should just rest till the energy comes back and the annoyance with the staleness will push me forward...

Amazing

I'm incredibly amazed with myself - I've managed to finish writing my methodology and even read it!!!

Internet

Internet is certainly a fabulous invention for a researcher... With the exception of the fact that after 2 hours you find yourself on a site largely unrelated to your research topic wondering why did not you do a research on a value of optimism in sports psychology!

Single vs Multiple Case????

Ahhh, can't decide!!!
If I will write an assignment for single - I can probably still change for multiple for the proposal, isn't it?
UPD:
It is too difficult to deal with 2 cases initially. Therefore - I will write methodology as if this is a single case.
Why it is helpful: I will analyse better what information I can get and how it will be useful. It would be a good learning experience. After that I will feel easier to expand it to multiple cases if necessary. Yay!

Methodology: sad thoughts

The more I write about my methodology - the less logic I see in what I was going to do. In general I think that with I have access to 1 virtual team (D object), but there is no signs of a VT in my other research object(E). There is virtual work, but the teams do not exist at all. How was I going to interview them, I mean whom, I mean why?
Thinking further - if I will drop the idea at all and just interview D team - it seems that I can get some more or less clear data there. But is it good to have clear data? The real world is not clear and everything is complicated and congested and the logic is hidden. Therefore...
It is better to interview both.
But how would I find the correct strategy to dig out any useful information?
Maybe my uncertainty is my bias?
How do I deal with that? If I feel that the processes in one organization are overcomplicated and unmanageable - it might be not true, it might be just my personal view of it.
I need a clean way to extract data, hmmm - wanted to say - objective - but I'm not looking for objectivity. Though I'm looking for something verifyable and internally consistent. If I have a bias against one of my research objects - it is internally invalid, isn't it?
Lost and confused...
I wonder if I have to start with the question - is there a virtual team at all?

Methodology vs Gauteng Winter Trail Series

I do not want to write methodology assignment, but I want to run GWTS. If I won't finish methodology by Sunday - I won't run trail series. There is no perfection in this world!!!
So sorry for myself :(((

Voice & Dance

Voice is like dance - if it is boring - nobody will watch it. It should be provocative, entertaining.
And just a bit of entertainment at the end:
"Research based on a Jungian personality schema
(Blaycock and Rees 1984; Nutt 1979, 1986; Slocum 1978;
Stumph and Dunbar 1991) suggests that the preferences
of the ‘‘analytical scientist’’ type seem to reflect
many of the exigencies of doing hard, quantitative research.
Empirical studies of these ‘‘types,’’ for example,
show that they value precision, accuracy, and reliability,
and they perform best when they can impose
models on a decision situation to specify the relevant
data needed and provide formats for logical analysis.
The two ‘‘feeling’’ types, the ‘‘particular humanist’’and the ‘‘conceptual humanist,’’ in contrast, provide a
closer approximation to the interpretive/soft systems
style of research. Particular humanists, for example,
prefer to conduct research via personal involvement
with other people; they prefer qualitative data and report
through personalized descriptive accounts."
As quoted by Mingers, J. (2001) Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology, Information Systems Research, 12(3), p. 240.

Trying to be interpretive...

"They ain't nothin' till I calls them."
Sounds like what I am. But I am nothing until I call myself :-)

But then I call myself - and I'm immediately not what I've called myself anymore - because I've influenced myself by identifying!

Nothing again

As I have nothing to say, I will quote myself:
"Tomorrow you will be sorry that you did not start doing what you think is too late to start"

About nothing

I'm not writing anything, because I want to sleep and in general my interest shifted hell knows where!