Even though i think that the video " The Power of Vision" is made 50 years ago, it does remind us something. Sometimes we are lost in the track of life. Soimetimes we don't have head or tail of what we are doing. Sometimes we are afraid of changes and feel good about doing nothing, think nothing. Especially under the blow of economic tsunami, school seems a good shelter. However, we cannot keep in this state forever. We need to think ahead about our future.
If anyone has ever read the 'Poor Dad, Rich Dad" , s/he probably knows what i am going to say. I want to financial independent prior to normal retire age. To accompolish this goal, it's better for me to plan early.
Capital is the first thing I need to get my own business started. To get the capital I needed, I know I must spend some time for other people's business. But I don't want to spend my most important years for other people, that's why I plan to get a bachelor degree asap ( most likely in 2 years) , then to get a MS degree on accounting (1 more year), lastly to get a CPA license. Getting good education may not gurantee me a decent job, but it does provide me more oppurtunities to get close to my goal. Therefore, no matter how boring textbooks are, I still have to slap myself to wake myself up.
After collecting the capital I need, I plan not to stay only in New York. Probably I may head back to China and see if there is opportunity out there. To my preception, China has a larger business protential than other countries so far as I see ( that might just because I am not familiar to other countries), though the competition there is vigorious too. It would be easier for me to start there than US. My friends in HK and I have planned to start our own business together, we have given ourselves 10 to 15 years to collect the capital for our goal.
This goal will be challenging and take us many years, but we find it worthy. In this way, we find the objectives in life. Hopefully we could be financially independ before 50, so that we can spend more money and time on charity, helping those who are still suffering in this planet.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
How do we hnadle conflict in decision making process?
Last week in the management class, professor gave the whole class a chance to decide how the exam is graded and the format for the next exam, as we did really bad in our first exam. Sounds really liberal, isn't it? The only criterion is that we have to come up with the 100% aggreement. If ONE of us disagree, the suggestion will be turned down. That could be really hard to reach the 100% agreement for 80 people.
Everyone has equal power, but not everyone plays equal in this game. Some people competes to win, they keep expressing their voice and hoping everyone else will agree with them. Some avoids to make decision, like one of guy wants to leave the classroom as he might feel really frustrate and think there is no way to come up with a good final decision. Most of us compromise, accommodate and collaborate in the process.
I personally take this role too. Part of it is because English is my second language. I perfer to let those who speak English fluently to bring up some ideas, as I know that the majority did bad in the exam, they will provide effective ones. The only thing I have to do mainly is to sit there and vote for the best solution. I won't be a bustard to object a suggestion if every else agrees on it. But I won't rise my hand for the ones I don't really like. It works. We come up to the alternative that we all satisfied.
The result is satisfatory. However, I believe we could get an ever more desirable result if we don't need to get 100% agreement. We all sitting there, looking around and hope there isn't any hand's up in the classroom when a desirable suggestion is out there. This is not fun at all. Like there is a term called Standard Error in statistic, why can't we have our 5% error?
Everyone has equal power, but not everyone plays equal in this game. Some people competes to win, they keep expressing their voice and hoping everyone else will agree with them. Some avoids to make decision, like one of guy wants to leave the classroom as he might feel really frustrate and think there is no way to come up with a good final decision. Most of us compromise, accommodate and collaborate in the process.
I personally take this role too. Part of it is because English is my second language. I perfer to let those who speak English fluently to bring up some ideas, as I know that the majority did bad in the exam, they will provide effective ones. The only thing I have to do mainly is to sit there and vote for the best solution. I won't be a bustard to object a suggestion if every else agrees on it. But I won't rise my hand for the ones I don't really like. It works. We come up to the alternative that we all satisfied.
The result is satisfatory. However, I believe we could get an ever more desirable result if we don't need to get 100% agreement. We all sitting there, looking around and hope there isn't any hand's up in the classroom when a desirable suggestion is out there. This is not fun at all. Like there is a term called Standard Error in statistic, why can't we have our 5% error?
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Planning.
In the egg drop activity in my management class, our egg " committed suicide" like most groups' eggs. Why so? I believe it's our fault. If we have given them " extra care" before hand, they might have survived.
In the planning process. it consists of 5 steps: 1) define goals and objectives; 2) determine resources and current status vis-a-vis objectives; 3) develop several alternative strategies; 4) make a tactical plan; 5) implement the plan and evaluate results. But as I mentioned before, IF our group have given the egg "extra care", it wouldn't break itself that hard. Obviously, our group bypassed some steps in the planning process.
We know what our goal/objectives clearly. That's to use eight straws to "protect" the egg, whatever shape/ structure it will be, so that even the egg won't break even it is dropped from 10 feet high. The only criteria is that half of the shell needed to be seen. How to use only eight straws and tape to do this in 20 minutes is kinda challenging. Lastly one of our group member suggested to make a hexagon to protect the egg. Of course, it failed. The idea of making a hexagon is good in theory. However, we ignored other factors -- the tape and the height. The tape was obviously not strong enough to support the egg for this height.
One of the problem is that we didn't develop several alternative strategies. Time is a constrain. We didn't have enough time for contingence plans. The other problem is that, some of the group members are too insist on their ideas, which made them ignoring other's idea. Not even putting them into back up plans. Made it worse, we didn't have clear roles for each one. Some of us just stood there looking other members dealing with the egg and straws. Moreover, we didn't evaluate our result.
If we have a second chance to do it again, we must have better planning. First of all, we should have back up plan, so that we'll have a second chance to reduce the risk. Like one of the famous term, " dont put all eggs into one basket". Second, we should have consider all factors that would affect the result. We put too much focus on the egg and straws, but we forgot the role of the tape.
Third, we should have clearer roles. We should know who is going to be the leader of the group, who will be the builder, who will be the supervisors, etc. Last but not the least, we should have time to discuss and evaluate the results. So that we could know what we did right and what we did wrong. Then we could learn from the wrong.
Anyway, this is a good experience =)
In the planning process. it consists of 5 steps: 1) define goals and objectives; 2) determine resources and current status vis-a-vis objectives; 3) develop several alternative strategies; 4) make a tactical plan; 5) implement the plan and evaluate results. But as I mentioned before, IF our group have given the egg "extra care", it wouldn't break itself that hard. Obviously, our group bypassed some steps in the planning process.
We know what our goal/objectives clearly. That's to use eight straws to "protect" the egg, whatever shape/ structure it will be, so that even the egg won't break even it is dropped from 10 feet high. The only criteria is that half of the shell needed to be seen. How to use only eight straws and tape to do this in 20 minutes is kinda challenging. Lastly one of our group member suggested to make a hexagon to protect the egg. Of course, it failed. The idea of making a hexagon is good in theory. However, we ignored other factors -- the tape and the height. The tape was obviously not strong enough to support the egg for this height.
One of the problem is that we didn't develop several alternative strategies. Time is a constrain. We didn't have enough time for contingence plans. The other problem is that, some of the group members are too insist on their ideas, which made them ignoring other's idea. Not even putting them into back up plans. Made it worse, we didn't have clear roles for each one. Some of us just stood there looking other members dealing with the egg and straws. Moreover, we didn't evaluate our result.
If we have a second chance to do it again, we must have better planning. First of all, we should have back up plan, so that we'll have a second chance to reduce the risk. Like one of the famous term, " dont put all eggs into one basket". Second, we should have consider all factors that would affect the result. We put too much focus on the egg and straws, but we forgot the role of the tape.
Third, we should have clearer roles. We should know who is going to be the leader of the group, who will be the builder, who will be the supervisors, etc. Last but not the least, we should have time to discuss and evaluate the results. So that we could know what we did right and what we did wrong. Then we could learn from the wrong.
Anyway, this is a good experience =)
Monday, February 16, 2009
Time = Everything
A good news for this semester, I got a full time job in this economy downturn. However, goods' always come with price.
Being a full time student as well as a full time employee at the same time, it means I have no free time for my family, friends and church.
Here is my schedule:
Monday & Wednesday: 4 classes, from 10am to 9pm
Tuesday & Thursday: 2 classes in the morning, from 8.40am to 12.25pm;
Then work from 1pm to 7pm.
Friday to Sunday: Work from 12pm to 7pm.
As a result, I don't have any dayoff technically. I'm occupied by work and study. Every time I back home, my parent, brother and sister are all in their beds. I am always working in weekends so that I can't hang out with my friends. I'm always the one who miss out all gatherings. Make it worse, my boyfriend and I run conflicting schedules. When he has free time, I am either at work or shool. When I get off work, he's having evening classes at the other school. Again, it's impossible for us to spend even one quality afternoon in summer weekends. For my religion, I feel sorry about it. I am a christian, but always late for Friday Fellowship and miss out all Sunday Worship on Sundays because of my job.
This time management problem is driving me nuts. I can't afford to lose my job, since I need to support my family with rent. We all know that how difficult it is to get a job these days. How can I ask for more? But all relationships need time to develop. Can anyone giving me any suggestion that I can balance between work, study and relationships? I cannot afford to lose neither of them.
Being a full time student as well as a full time employee at the same time, it means I have no free time for my family, friends and church.
Here is my schedule:
Monday & Wednesday: 4 classes, from 10am to 9pm
Tuesday & Thursday: 2 classes in the morning, from 8.40am to 12.25pm;
Then work from 1pm to 7pm.
Friday to Sunday: Work from 12pm to 7pm.
As a result, I don't have any dayoff technically. I'm occupied by work and study. Every time I back home, my parent, brother and sister are all in their beds. I am always working in weekends so that I can't hang out with my friends. I'm always the one who miss out all gatherings. Make it worse, my boyfriend and I run conflicting schedules. When he has free time, I am either at work or shool. When I get off work, he's having evening classes at the other school. Again, it's impossible for us to spend even one quality afternoon in summer weekends. For my religion, I feel sorry about it. I am a christian, but always late for Friday Fellowship and miss out all Sunday Worship on Sundays because of my job.
This time management problem is driving me nuts. I can't afford to lose my job, since I need to support my family with rent. We all know that how difficult it is to get a job these days. How can I ask for more? But all relationships need time to develop. Can anyone giving me any suggestion that I can balance between work, study and relationships? I cannot afford to lose neither of them.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Hi everyone,
alright, let's do some boring stuff first ( as it is required =P )
my name's Chui Pik, Wong .. for some reason CUNY makes it Chui, Wong which i hate the way it is. But I believe i'm not the first nor the last chinese encountering this kind of problem. I prefer others call me Avery, so next time when you see me in class, please call me Avery =)
As I mentioned, Im a chinese and come from HK, been to NY for 2 years and half. The first impression of this city was, WHERE ARE PUBLIC RESTROOMS??!! it took me 2 hours on the street looking for restrooms.. it wasn't a pleasant experience in the first weekend of my new york life. Well, fortunately it was summer night. Never expected this would happened in my life, since public restrooms are like everywhere in HK. But that's also a fun part of life, full of unexpected. =)
This is my junior year in Baruch, if i want to be a CPA, i still have 3 more year to go though.
It's nice to see all of you in this class, wish we will all have a fruitful semester =)
my name's Chui Pik, Wong .. for some reason CUNY makes it Chui, Wong which i hate the way it is. But I believe i'm not the first nor the last chinese encountering this kind of problem. I prefer others call me Avery, so next time when you see me in class, please call me Avery =)
As I mentioned, Im a chinese and come from HK, been to NY for 2 years and half. The first impression of this city was, WHERE ARE PUBLIC RESTROOMS??!! it took me 2 hours on the street looking for restrooms.. it wasn't a pleasant experience in the first weekend of my new york life. Well, fortunately it was summer night. Never expected this would happened in my life, since public restrooms are like everywhere in HK. But that's also a fun part of life, full of unexpected. =)
This is my junior year in Baruch, if i want to be a CPA, i still have 3 more year to go though.
It's nice to see all of you in this class, wish we will all have a fruitful semester =)
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