BUS600 how OTHER people will characterize you as leader? Using the VCM model

The leadership VCM model:
There are 3 characteristics, Vision, Commitment and Management Skill are part of leader's personal profile.
The reason leadership is important because it involves a set of interpersonal influence processes. Balanced VCM is critical for success, because it aim at motivating subordinates, creating a vision for team's future and developing strategies for achieveing goals.

Below I paste a reference - it is summary of the article of by Daniel Goleman, from Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review Article

What Makes a Leader? (HBR Classic)

When asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally associated with leadership. Often left off the list are softer, more personal qualities--but they are also essential. Although a certain degree of analytical and technical skill is a minimum requirement for success, studies indicate that emotional intelligence may be the key attribute that distinguishes outstanding performers from those who are merely adequate. Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman first brought the term "emotional intelligence" to a wide audience with his 1995 book of the same name, and Goleman first applied the concept to business with this 1998 classic HBR article. In his research at nearly 200 large, global companies, Goleman found that truly effective leaders are distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence. Without it, a person can have first-class training, an incisive mind, and an endless supply of good ideas, but he or she still won't be a great leader. The chief components of emotional intelligence--self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill--can sound unbusinesslike, but Goleman, cochair of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based at Rutgers University, found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable business results.

BUS600 business analysis - Bench mark competitor

Dear Sir,

Please find my business analysis at below link, the topic is Bus600 - bench mark competitor, let me know if you have any comments.

http://ulearn.calmat.us/blog/index.php?userid=71
Thanks, Evelyn

BUS600 Ethics

Topic on Ethics dilemmas - Social responsibility vs maximizing profits
From Wikipedia, Social responsibility is an ethical ideology or theory that an entity, be it an organization or individual, has an obligation to act to benefit society at large.
But in reality, many corporations care more about maximizing profits of their stakeholders, they claim a profitable business could create job, pay taxes which could support government's social activities. On the other hand, some industries' product could bring harmfulness to human being.
For example, cigarette industry in China, is very popular and is one of major income of local government because of higher tax. In many poor area, especially mountain area, majority of blue collar workers have heavy smoke habits, which is the only way to relieve them from long hours' & intense work load; Smoking could induce lung disease or even cancer, suffering such disease, they could only wait for death, no money to go to hospital. Now some improvement from Chinese government to set up aid for poor people, but the fund is far from sufficient to cover all poor people need. Those people are the victim of cigarette industry. Statistical data shows the smokers' age trends down, younger, which makes me worry a lot.
What can we do?

My SWOT

Strength: goal driven, good understanding of technology, highly discipline
Weakness: lack of humor, presentation skill
Opportunity: program / project manager
Threat: knowledge / technology out of date

BUS516 Entrepreneurship

Reading Chapter 1.5 Economics, the entrepreneur and productivity:
"Society, operating at its best, works through entrepreneurs to effectively manage its material, environmental and human resources to achieve widespread prosperity."
"The entrepreneur turns a social problem into an opportunity, a productive organization, and new, well-paid jobs. Productivity growth is important since it provides all the increases in people's standard of living."

Thinking of California, silicon vally, there are many entrepreneurs, many successful stories, start-ups, e.g. Yahoo, google, apple, ebay, in united states, the best environment for economic activity, why is un-employment rate as high as 12.4%, the highest across country? How come the California state goverment is going for bankruptcy? What is wrong with it?

CALMAT BUS600 Foundation of business management

Business Vision:
to set up private foundation for providing financial help to those people in need.

Mission:
To run this non-profit organization and expand and grow it for more people's benefits. In order to meet our goal, we need to learn how investment and get positive growing.

This is always a dream for me.
We are lucky to live in US society, although America history is short ~200 years comparing with China, but its system is well establisted, based on constitution, everything follows its rule, people's behavior is compliance with law, regulation, the whole sociaty is healthy and in harmony.
What about the rest of world, many place are still suffering war, starving. Everytime when I think of this, I will make up my mind to do something for them.


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BUS 520 leadership challenge

Two years ago, I just switch my job to my current company. I need to take care of our products which were fabricated in the foreign foundries, both logistic and technicals. Internally, I need to work with design team, product engineering and testing team to find out root cause if anything goes wrong, any issue happen to my products. For example, if my products were found any low yield issue, whether they are due to design error, or product / IP block definition is wrong or testing vector is not suitable, program bug, etc., I need to call a meeting or face to face talk to each individual and follow up on the action items; Externally I need to work with factory to push them to investigate the issue.
With my boss trust, I am able to manage them well and complete some new projects, as well.
When my manager inspire me and support me on something I am doing, I felt I am very powerful. He often talks to me, say "you are technical very strong, I support your decision". His trust often made me feel I can do thing better. I also spend time to learn new stuff by myself.

Once my manager pointed out I didn’t follow his instruction, he was not happy with me. I remembered he was saying I was not able to be trained or can not be trainable, something like that. I was hurt and shock. At that time, I feel powerless and weak.

Now I learn how to handle this, I am getting progress.

what kind of leader you admire

I admire a leader, who either could be very knowledgable in technical area or is with the lenient personality. It could be both or either of them.

My previous manager, Mohammad, is such kind of person. He is very knowledgable in our field, and very kind, honest, tolerant, lenient as well.

CALMAT BUS 528 PJ

Dear Sir,
I am happy to get into CALMAT program. After many years working in industrial, I realize I need to recharge and go back to school.
At the beginning, it is really hard for me to catch up the pace. I have a lot of responsibility from my work. No much time left for my study.
Fortunately project management is not strange for me. I have managed many projects in my life, learning the theory behind is a big help to understand what should be done correctly to make thing better.