VISION

I believe “Vision without action is just a dream. Action without vision merely wastes time. Vision coupled with action can make things happen!” I have my future goal that I want to be a great financial consultant, to have a good family relationship and maintain a good healthy body. In order to make those dreams come true, I think I have to work hard in the school and get a degree in order to make it easier to get a job. My friend has recommended that I go and listen to a finance group meeting. That is just a group of people who come from various business fields and gather together in this group. They tell others what they did and explain how to succeed in their own business fields. My relationship with my family is fine and I hope I can keep it up in the future as well. As far as health is concerned, I think everyone should have a good body in order for them to work, play, and enjoy their life. So I will eat well and keep my body in a healthy way.

Decision Making

I think I have used Compromise, Avoidance, and Accommodation to handle conflict in our class decision making exercise. First Compromise: I think some people and I had to use compromise because it is a fair and necessary way to handle things like our discussion. Although we did not quite agree about the final vote, and yet we still have to do so. Second, Avoidance: I believe there were a lot of people who have good ideas, but they just decided not to express them. Decision making is challenging under time constraints and uncertainty. People usually need more time to think of a best idea for their own situation, but in our class discussion, I think was impossible because everyone was prone to self-serving behavior, thinking of what was best for them. Personally, I don’t like to keep the essay part because English is not my first language. On the first exam, I lost a lot of points on the essay part. However, I think there are more people who like to keep the essay part because they think that is a good way to gain points. Therefore, I just chose not to express my feeling, although I don’t like it because I don’t want to hold everyone back. Third, Accommodation: this is seeing issue as more important to others than self. In our class discussion, this was not a individual concern, it’s our whole class concern, so we couldn’t just think of a way which would have the best benefit to oneself, we should think of a decision that would be beneficial to everyone.

Egg-cellent

The “Steps in the Planning Process” that our team actually went through was:
Step1. We defined our goal of preventing our egg from cracking when dropped from the air to the ground. And step 4: make a tactical plan.
Although we did make a tactical plan concerning what must be done in order to prevent l our egg cracking when dropped. The planning process that our team has missed:
Step 2.We determined our resources and current status vis-à-vis objectives.
Step 3. We developed several alternative strategies.
Step 5. We implemented the plan and evaluated the results.
I don’t know why our team has missed so many of them. But I guess is because we were overconfident about our planning. We didn’t think too much about the planning. Our planning was not good enough nor did we develop a better way to do it. We didn’t develop as many strategies that we should have. We should have thought of more methods to protect our egg. Our team simply went through the plan that we had after we all agreed to do so. I think we should have to listen each team member’s idea, and then we should have decided the best one. We have to make sure we use the 5 steps of “steps in the Planning Process”. Although we failed to achieve our goal, we accomplished something together as a team. It was a pleasurable experience to work as a team with everyone. It’s a nice planning process that our professor has given and thanks to our professor for letting us go through this learning experience.

Management Problem

I used to have a part job on the weekend, but I recently quit the job. I think I should spend more time on school work because I am taking six classes this semester. I am now thinking that I have need more time to spend school or on anything else, but I am also worried that I cannot use the time efficiently. I usually procrastinate about homework and projects, leaving everything to the last minute. I think this is a lot of people’s problem although it is not a good thing, but I think a lot of people just don’t know how to overcome it. Or it maybe it is just about my laziness. I still hope I can solve this problem; if I can finish everything before the due date comes, then I won’t have to worry too much at the last minute. On another hand, I also want to find a job, and then maybe my financial problems will be better because I love online and outdoor shopping too much. It seems like I have conflict about myself and my life, however; this is maybe just called management and I am not a good manager. But I hope somehow I will be a good manager in the future.

Getting to know me

Hello, everyone,
I hate to introduce myself, but I would like to introduce a little bit about myself. I’m Yu Lin (Joey) and this is my junior year at Baruch College. I transferred from Hunter College a year ago. My major is Finance and my minor is Psychology. I am now looking for an internship and I hope I will get one soon. I came from China and I am living in Brooklyn now. I love to go shopping like most of girls do. I like to play badminton although I don’t play well. I am exciting about our management class. I wish for all of us to have a fascinating semester.