THE POEM TO END IT ALL

Management can make you and management can break you

Turn a boy into a man, or a girl into a woman with an Iron hand

It helps you discover yourself, and learn about everybody else

Forces you to make a decision in a moment’s notice

Make the right one, and the office on the top floor is within your focus

Say the wrong thing to your assistant

And If her name isn’t Monica, you’re out of luck in an instant

You need an open mind with a heart full sole

But manage yourself differently in every role

Autocratic, democratic, or laissez faire

Nothing will ever be evidently clear

Management will give you experiences in life

Some probably harder to deal with than having 2 wife’s

A woman is lazy and wants to start work at one

Do you accept or decline?

Or ask Kurpis, the mighty divine

Management is difficult to conquer and learn

But once you do, the victory will be mighty earned.  

its 2011 ppl : BLOG!

I have not had a class where I got the chance to blog; being able to express my opinion about the various things going on in our class and our world. I believe that it is a great idea and that it is an extremely easy way to allow yourself to earn 20% of your grade. The problem was that many people did not manage it properly, with the blogs going to end up hurting them rather than helping them out.It was really fun, discussing our activities that we did and writing our opinion about our class. The blog gave a chance for people to get to know one another in the class, learn from one another, and see how different people really think. This is great practice for us as managers in the real world because we will always be surrounded by different types of people who all think differently and come from different backgrounds, our goal is to adapt and be able to understand all of them. Overall, I got to read others peoples blog, understand all our activities in depth which further allowed me to understand the general management concepts that we were trying to learn I will continue to post on this blog after the class is over and I believe that this should definitely be a component of this course.

what's your DISC?

Unfortunately I missed out the class where we did the DISC personality test, but from what I heard of the test you can possibly be 4 different characeristics. One is a C, which is someone who takes time in analyzing details, whos systematic and uses analytic approaches to everything. Type D looks like the opposite, who is dominating, takes controls of the situations and leads things his or her way. Type I is someone who is influential and has the ability to persuade people and lead the way. S, seems like the type that is more laid back, likes to feel sympathy for everyone and put feelings first ahead of everything; which I believe is a negative as a manager.
Personally, I believe that I would be a DI, because I am one who likes to lead in situations, love to have my way with things, and am pretty good at persuading people to follow my theory and ways. Yet, I believe that in an work environment people switch their personalities depending on the situation; where sometimes they feel comfortable enough to lead and other times they want to sit back and go over details and be consciousness about things.  Managers and leaders do need to be sympathetic as well but it is their job to mostly lead, organize, and direct, which would be a perfect DI, which I believe would be me.

My dream, my actions, my Vision, my Power

There are many goals that I have set for myself in my life. One of my main goals is to be  a successful corporate lawyer; this required and still requires ample amounts of actions. First it required me to get a base education in elementary school, junior high school, and high school, at a high level; it then required me to attend a good school and continue to increase my education level, which is where I am now. From here on, I will have to finish up school with a high GPA, and alongside prepare and take the excruciating LSAT exam in order to get into law school. I will then have to suffer three years of law school, take the BAR exam and hopefully get my degree. I have planned for all this, now I all I need to do it execute.
Another goal that I have is going to require several different actions but with a different result; that goal is to get married and raise a family. Once I have a stable career, I would like to get married to a women that I fall in love with, have kids, and raise a family that I can protect, love and care for, who will continue my legacy and be there as support for ever more.
My last and final goal is possibly the hardest one for me to achieve. This is a personal dream that I have had, and it is to get into an acting career. Unfortunately, with the previous goals that I have planned, this might be pretty much impossible. But whenever I have the chance to possibly take acting classes, seek some sort of management, and possibly go to several auditions, I will definitely take that opportunity. Maybe at a later time in my life, when I first succeed with my first two goals.

oh yeahhh! decision time yeahh!

In class, we had to come up with a way to relieve our poor scoring grades on our first exam. We had to come up with a decision that would help us raise the grade, but at the same time be reasonable and fair. At the end, we had a succesful decision, where we get the chance to do extra credit as well have a curve added on to our exam. I was personally absent for that day due to sickness, but from what I hear the process was hectic, annoying, and somewhat even overwhelming. Had I been in the class, I would definetly had taken a Compromised type stance, where I would want to get at least something from the whole process, where no matter what people scored, everyone can benefit, espcially for me, since I really messed up. I was filled in that many people tried to take an accomodation stance, where they only tried to benefit themselves, and they did that by being agressive and trying to compete to win to always try and get their point across. I don't believe that, that is the way to go; then again I say that we cannot compare trying to agree on a grading system to that of managing a company, where peopl usually work more for the better increase of the whole company. In a situation like this, I believe that the best way would actually be to have one leader, who would be able to quiet everyone down, and try to by statistics sort out the ways in which we can all resolve these issues. this person should have gone from topic to topic, like first talking about the curve, then the extra credit, then the format of the next test, all with the patient participation of the class. That is somewhat of an utopic view of decision making thought, but would probably give us somewhat better results in a less chaotic  circumastance.

Two of the greatest + Forbes

Warren Buffet and Jay Z sit down with Forbes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtttlFS_Q7c

America: Family, Culture, Respect, Independence?

Although I feel as if I am an American myself because of growing up here since the age of 7; there are things that still differ in American culture compared to that of my families. In my culture, your family is everything; I have been taught to respect my parents no matter what they say or do, even if I want things to go my way. Growing up in an eclectic but American cultured community, an ample amount of kids around me did not seem to hold the same respect for their family that I did; they would be spoiled in always getting their way and sort of doing what they want. A sense of intense independence is given to the average American kid, which results many times in their misdoings. In my family, my parents allowed me to have my independence but it was in a way limited so that I do not make irrational decisions that may injure me in the future. Not to generalize, there are of course those kids that with that independence they grow up to be wonderful beneficiaries of our society that hold the future of tomorrow; but this sense of being a separate entity from your family was always what I have seen from the American culture, which was completely opposite of mine.