Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Presentations Day 1

 I found all of them a quite fascinating. Atsuko and Shiori (Asakura) talked about the global leader which is very practical. I used to think that the Global standards are American standards, since they have so much share in the Global business. However, it turns out that it is not that way. we need to be social, create shared value, be logical and ownership which is universally applicable. Shiori had done great job, bringing images to visualize those elements which made listener easy to understand.  Moe talked about the negative thinking is not always inferior and keeping them in appropriate ratio is important to the success. With clear wording and images, I surely thumbs up to her presentation. Kenta showed us three types of leadership styles. Especially the last one, Servant Type is very new to me. Recognizing these styles, I think it is much easier for leaders to see the benefit & problem of their
style and they can keep such problems in mind. Sayaka talks about Starbucks which, I was always wondering why the people working there seems so happy all the time. The answer is, it seems, this company actually treasure it's employee and created an environments that they likes to belong.
Mao mentioned the populism, in which too strong leadership will not always eventually lead to preferable outcomes. I agree with his view since, I think, it is true that populism sometimes become stronger than their contents of proposal which make public to become irrational at their decision making. Sumire talks very confidently about the modern leadership.  The new thing for me, was the "Flex Time Schedule." She showed us a graph showing that the more we take time on somethings, we pay for their work, the effectiveness will eventually fall at one points. I think this study can be used in various parts of our living. It is set time to your work, if you want it to have effective. Overall I think I had learned a lot things from today's presenters. Again thank you!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Xaotian,
    Thanks for this final post, and what a great summary you have made of these presentations. Very nicely done. Maybe I should have required everyone to have made summaries of every lecture!

    Thanks too for all your work this term. I enjoyed having you in class and especially liked that you aren't shy about asking questions. You have a great curiosity which will serve you well in the future. I wish you the very best!

    Ken

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