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Realization... Facts...

This week, what I get is, I realized that I hate presenting the same thing. Due to the fact that I can detect people’s reactions when we talk about something that they already know. People will get bored, I will get bored. My realization makes me lost interest in presenting what I should present better. Well, it’s true that it is without preparation; of course lecturer will surely realize that, she’s the expert.

What to do, it’s me who prepare the report, editing the report, preparing the slides, presenting also, and what else. What more should I do? Why don’t just give the entire thing and put all the things in my shoulder? And then everyone can just put all the blame onto me.

What I learn? What should I learn? Being in group sometimes is helping, but sometimes it’s not. Stress every week because of this business activity. Stress isn’t something I should learn I think. But I learnt that.

But one thing I know, we, group one, has done our very best for these whole business activities. Nothing to regret and all the things we learned are valuable experiences whether good or not, we all successfully faced them all and we proud of it. Other people’s opinions can be put aside because we all know how we really are. God and I know how I really am. That’s what the most important.

Thank you for spending your precious time reading these blogs, if you read that is. Sorry for everything to my lecturer and all my dear classmates. Sometimes being too direct is not good, right? But this is how I am.

Well, this is it. My last blog.

4th Week Of Business Activity

Expect This???

Expect the unexpected. Actually many groups already closed their business activity in last week but we still continue our business this week because there are lots of positive responds from customers who want our service. However since we don’t have much time to do this business, we just operate for one day only which is on Friday. Even just one day operation, we still gain a good profit. It is unexpected though.

We want to go to donate the money, but no one knows the location of the orphanage house? Why? Didn’t I ask you to find out the details? What? Not enough transportation also? New problems occur again. So, tell me, what to expect now? Think…. Where are the solutions? Think, think, think and think…. Force my tiny brain to think, not just every week but almost every day.

Then, on the day of donation day, one more thing about expecting the unexpected. We got lost. Isn’t that funny? We lost in middle of town? Expected? Why drives so fast? Are we in that kind of hurry? We think about ourselves, not about our group. That’s why this happens.

On the day of donation day also, I got calls from UUM staffs. They ask about our business whether it is still operating or not. They want to get our service. However we already closed at that time. I can hear their disappointment from the sound of their voice. Sorry to disappoint you, our dear customers. So, I just explain why we closed, but they thought that we will re-open our business next semester. Well, we just do this business because of assignment, so, no next time.

There you go… The unexpected and expected the unexpected.

3rd Week Of Business Activity

Do we really understand??

Discussions make us understand each other better. Is that true? Or it will just make you understand them too much which will cause even more dislike? Why every time we have meeting, there’s no question from my team members? Is it I’m too scary to be asked? Or are they too shy? Or is it they don’t pay attention?

We talked about the positives and negatives of our group’s business activity. And I asked each one of them to give me at least one opinion. Well, being forced to do that, they all seemly can give opinions, unlike before. In a group, of course sometimes disagreement will occurs. Even in small group of 3persons, can occur that, of course it is even more in bigger group.

We start our business with a bad start. No cooperation. It’s too stress out. We only expect the positive results and blame on each other when the result is not as what we want. People don’t think things the same way as we do, even though they are expecting the same thing. That’s how humans are. If we all can think the same way, there’s no need for discussion or meeting, right?

One more thing, I realized that my group members sure are sharp. They understand people’s reaction. We all realized where we stand in the class. People think our idea is lame. Well, no need to deny it. We can see… But, never mind. That’s how this world works. We can’t force people, unless we have powers and money that is. Well, we just students, the money we have is from loan. Powers? What power do we have?

So, the thing left for us to do is just, prove them wrong. That’s it. But how? Think….

What I’m glad is, at least my team members did share a tiny bit of my stress. So, we can understand each other a little bit more this week.

2nd Week Of Business Activity

Why always think???

This week, what I learn is that we need to think far, think of many possibilities, think of opportunities and also think of alternatives. What to do if the thing you expected to be as a good thing but it suddenly turned out to be a bad thing. What other option that we should take? Don’t rely on other people to think for you but instead, you should think by yourselves.

Well, it is true that our business activity is different from other two groups. Due to that also we can’t collaborate with them. Don’t get me wrong, it doesn’t mean that we can’t have good relationship with them, but it’s just can’t work together. To tell the truth, it is quite sad. It looks like our group seems to be left behind.

Why is it we can’t get many customers? Are we lack in promotion? What should we do? Knock doors? Isn’t it embarrassing things to do? Are we daring enough to do so? Are we willing to put aside our shyness? What other option beside that?

At the beginning, we make many plans but every time faces new problems and need to change the plans. Try, not right? Try again. Not right again? Then try again, again and again until it is right. Think far, always find suitable solutions. Be cooperative; think the best for group, not the best for yourself. Many heads is better than one? Yeah, right. But when only all the heads are being used that is. Think a creative way but since many lazy to think, and not even attend meetings, we all stuck in this uncreative way of doing our business.

So, what should I learn this week again?

1st Week Of Business Activity

What did I learn in this week? Many things. I learn how hard it is to start a business, how hard it is to get approvals, how difficult it is make a new business to be known, how many things you should know and prepare before you start and how challenging it is to lead a big group of new people that I never know before.

Beginning of starting our business, lots of challenges occurs. Even people don’t say this but I know and I realize that many people think low of our idea of doing this business. But, that’s what they are wrong. They don’t know us, don’t understand us. And we proved them wrong. People can’t see how hard we tried to make our business a success.

Getting the approval is a pain. We’re running out of time to get the approval because too many procedures to follow, the dean is not here and the YAB Principal is out to KL and that day is the last day of the week to get it, or else we need to wait 3 more days before getting it. How unluckily of us, we didn’t manage to get the approval in time. Therefore, our business got delayed one week.

Handling big group of new people from not only different races but also from different countries is very challenging. We can’t cooperate well. What went wrong? Is it me whom not capable of uniting us? Why is it so hard? Why is it my group differs from other groups? What are the things that blocking our way to cooperate well? I tried my best to be a good leader, but maybe it’s still not good enough.

Friendly speaking, the thing that I learned the most from this business activity is that, being a leader is most stressful, need to think many things, extremely tiring and requires a lot of patience. Many people see the job of leaders as an easy job, just gives orders and the underlings will do all the jobs, but that’s wrong. It is totally not true. Especially when you have underlings who are lazy to think and can’t even think solution by themselves. Leader is not a machine that does all the thinking for you.

Leadership

What is the most valuable thing you learned in Project Business Plan?

The difficulties as a leader. Being a leader is much more challenging when we group with new people that we just barely get to know. We don’t really understand each other and it demand a lot of communication and interaction. We cannot expect them to understand us, because they don’t. Being a good leader is extremely tough because not only we must have good relationship with team members but also we must know how to play our role as leader in giving orders and dividing the works. A good leader is a leader that is being respected by his or her team members. However,people are not what we expect them to be. Not all our team members will follow our instructions. Sometimes, even they do their roles, it still cannot satisfy us because the outcomes that we get are not as what we anticipate.Nevertheless, that's how this world is. Whether you act as leader or just a member,it's still the same because if you are not a leader to others, you are still a leader to yourself.