The Storm

I am a Daughter;

Clinging to the power of my parents love

I am a Sister;

Walking in my siblings shadow

I am a Friend;

Leader of the pack

I am a Solder;

Taking orders from my commanders

I am a Commander;

Marching my troops to victory

I am a Civilian;

Governed by the law

I am a Student;

Learning how to become a leader.

All through life we have opportunities to lead or to follow, to manage a situation or to be managed by a it. The path we choose to take is the choice you have to make. So lead, follow or get out of the way.

Communicating Via Blog

In my opinion (and I'm not trying to over compliment) this blog entry assignment that we had through the semester is a great tool of communication. after each assignment that we had in class we needed to write a blog entry . that made me think deeper on each topic and also have my voice heard. I can surly say that now I will never forget how to plan, since the egg should always be protected. I will always remember that I am a D personality, and that it is what makes me different from others and also what makes me be right all the times about everything. I will never forget that vision without action is practical worth nothing. and I now know, and will never forget that some people take decision making in different ways. As you can see I learned allot from this blog and the assignment we did in class. they were fun, rememberable and active and I think that that is the reason all students participate and liked it so much.
I also really liked that the professor made us write a comments to each other. through those comments I learned a little about my writing and about the subject matter. Simply by letting us comment on each others blog emphasis our communications skills. Learning through experience is the best way to convey a topic, and I think that this blog entry was a wonderful way to express ourselves and to learn management.
Sadly but honestly I would say that I will not continue to post more blog entries for the rest of the year, I simply don't have time to do so. With work, my family and school I only have time to do homework (papers, blog entry and study for exams) and don't have any spare time simply for myself. I hope that ones I will finish school it will be more comfortable for me to do the things I love, such as writing a blog. Funny that I say so since my first blog entry was all about how I hate writing and how I didn't think I will enjoy this experience. I guess this Blogs assignment proved me wrong and made me change my mind.
Thank you for that opportunity!

Personal Profile System

In the Personal Profile test that we did in class I discovered few things about myself that were some true and some new. After calculating the numbers I discovered that my dominant letter is D in the DISC evaluation. If you are a D dominant you are described as a person who "Emphasis on shaping the environment by overcoming opposition to accomplish results". I would say that this statement pretty much describes who I am. In arguments I am the person who will "compete to win", I always think that my opinion is the best and I am sure that if everyone will change their mind and follow mine then the results will be much better. Even in my personal life, in my relationship with my husband, I never take my husband opinion into consideration and I constantly try to convince him that my way is better then his way or the highway. Other D characters that I can identify with are; accepting challenges (that is why I work in sales), questioning the statues Que (always trying to change the impossible) and making quick decisions. I can say that I am happy to be a D personality, I think that it fits my vision or ambitions in life. I want to be something else, I don't want to be the normal I want to take the challenge and I want to get results quick. I don't think that I can even become another type, I have tried in the past to be more detailed oriented or to be accurate or to even try to be more organized but it obviously didn't work. I think that it is highly important to know someone personality type, especial to  know your boss type or your partners type so that you can better analyze their behavior which will give you an advantage over them, in that way you will know how to approach them and how to talk to them.

The Power of Vision

My vision for the future is very clear, I want to have my own business and I want it to be successful. I currently work as a sales person for a small company that generate great revenue. All of the revenue that the company makes comes from retail, the staff make their salary strictly by commission which encourage them to make more money. I have been working for that company for few years and now, right before I finish school, I feel like I want to go solo. I want to open my own shop and hire the same kind of people that I work with now; people who are ambitious, hard working and charismatic. I have been doing sales for so long that I feel as thou I am ready to do this and that I have the knowledge that is requires to succeed in the industry. In order to accomplish that I need to do few "small" things such as: rent a shop at the right location, recruit skilled people who will be eager to sale and train them to be the best (which I have done before) and I will need to improve my connection with the wholesale distributors. However, I know that if I don't put my heart and soul into this I will not succeed. I have seen friends of mine who tried and failed and I learned from their mistakes. one of the patterns I see is that ones the business became successful they started to become lazier and think that the business will run by its own.
and here comes my second vision for the future. after I plan to make a lot of money by opening my own business I plan to reinvest my money in real estate and become the owner of few apartment buildings in NYC. I plan to buy the buildings, renovate them and collect the rent each month from the tenants that will leave in my luxurious apartments.
Now that I am multimillionaire, my wealth is secure and I don't have to work anymore, my third vision will come into place. I will want to establish my own Charity fund that will help all kind of people. from those who need medical health to those who are in debt to young people who have no money for education. however, I will be fully involved in where the money goes and how funds are distributed and will make sure that the funds go to the right hands.

Decision Making

It is really hard for me to choose one way in which I acted during the decision making exercise we had in class. I think that as we reached our deadline my interaction became less active and I became more pessimistic. At first, when we were just introduced to the assignment by the professor I was very aggressive, I tried to speak my words and convince the whole class that my ideas are the right ones and that they should listen to me. However, when the first "manager" took initiative and approached the whole class I found it comforting and my reaction was that the best way is to collaborate. At first it was very organized, each person spoke his mind and we brainstormed alternatives, which seem to be the right path. Then something happened that changed my behavior to the worst, the manage lost control of the class so there were more and more people who stood up and tryed to "help", which only created more confusion. at that point my behavior became "avoidance" i did not care anymore. It seemed as if we totally lost control and that there is no chance we will ever come to a decision. So I didn't say anything and just talked to my neighbor who was accommodating the class since he received a high grade and he didn't care so much about the consequences of the discussion.  Five minutes were left to the end of the exercise and we haven't spoke about the second test. At that point I started to get frustrated and anxious but there was nothing I could so, it already escalated to a much bigger problem.
I think that the conclusion that I need to draw from this exercise is that if I think that I could of been a better manager then anyone else then I should off taken the initiative (like the first manager) and "control" the class.

Planing

First of all, before i will get into the details of how we planed our assignment i would like to say the I'm upset. I really thought that our egg will not break and that we will get the reward. However 2 toms up to the group who one, great idea you guys came up with.
Planing in our group was a major part, we carefully examined our time and prepared ourselves correctly to how we want our model to look like. our group was very strong in communicating with each the ideas of how the model should look like. However, when time was up and we had one more minute to finish our planing, one member came up with a different model that shacked everyone confidence in our original model, and so we changed the model in the last minute. I suspect that if we would of stayed with the original model, we would of won. I also think that if we would of stop for a minute and think outside the box we would of done better. we were so focused on how to protect the egg from breaking that we didn't even think "is there a different alternative"?! two groups thought outside the box, by using the tape as an extension, and they are both won the assignment.
I think that our group did very well in the planing process. we communicated correctly by letting each individual speak his mind. we were able to combine all the ideas together and create one perfect model (that did not succeed, but we though it was great). However, our model could of been more effective if we would dedicated more time to think outside the box and see how we could use our materials in an unconventional way.

hello again I'm here today to tell you about my experience with the American culture. As a person who was not born in the u.s I found my integration to the American mainstream to be pretty difficult. Eventhough there are many aspects to the American culture that are much easier to handle then my culture I still feel like i am not part of it. The one main difference between my culture (I came from Israel)and the American one is that in my culture there is a greater emphasize on the family then on the individual. We value family time as much as the Americans value their privacy and space. Israeli families stick together throw thick and thin, and I mostly think it is because of our devorce rates. Israelies don't rush to get a divorce just as much as they don't rush into merried moreover having kids. So ones they create a family of their own they cherish that. I am merried to an American today and that is why I live in ny. I see the interaction my husband have with his family and I can certainly say that it is much diffrent then my own. Holidays are not a must for them and family time is not as important. Each of the members in his family has his own personal life and that is what they focus on. Moreover I see even people in the street or at work who must have their space and do not like to be bother with other people. In my culture that is how you get to know people, throw interactions such as these. To sum, i would like to say that eventhough it is had for me to connect to the american culture I do feel like it contribute to my self awareness .