Leadership

Have you ever feigned confidence to superiors or reports? Hidden the fact you were confused by the latest business results or blindsided by a competitor's move? If so, you've bought into the myth of the complete leader: the flawless being at the top who's got it all figured out.

It's an alluring myth. But in today's world of increasingly complex problems, no human being can meet this standard. Leaders who try only exhaust themselves, endangering their organizations.
There is a better way to lead: Accept that you're human, with strengths and weaknesses. Understand the four leadership capabilities all organizations need:

a) Sensemaking--interpreting developments in the business environment
b) Relating--building trusting relationships
c) Visioning--communicating a compelling image of the future
d) Inventing--coming up with new ways of doing things

Then find and work with others who can provide the capabilities you're missing.
Take this approach, and you promote leadership throughout your organization, unleashing the expertise, vision, and new ideas your company needs to excel.

Incomplete leaders find people throughout their company who can complement their strengths and offset their weaknesses. To do this, understand the four leadership capabilities organizations need. Then diagnose your strength in each:

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9. Dress like a successful businessman

Dressing appropriately creates an image of a trust-worthy person. Hotel emplyees can guess approximate income of their guests by seeing how they are dressed.

President Sugawara is probably the most well known image maker consultant. He has consulted most successful CEOs and news anchors in Japan. According to Sugawara, the follwing must be kept in mind to create good image

1) Avoid shoes with worn off heels and have them polished

2) Avoid white or patterned socks

3) Do not pull your pants up all the way to your belly if you have big stomch and have them ironed

4) Wear dark tone jackets. It appeals leadership

5) The backside of the jackets should not have fold marks

6) The sleeve of the jackets must be approximately 1cm shorter than the sleeve of the shirt

7) Bright tone shirts, such as pink yellow is only for fridays right before the weekend

Apart from above suggestions, it is important to carry a pen with you, so that you don't borrow from others. Apart from dressing, it is also important to have claean hair style, short and clean nails, clean breath, accesories and a memo.

reference : http://blog.naver.com/gregchoi?Redirect=Log&logNo=140021027010

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20600674 - Entry #9 (Wrapped for Success)

Take a look at this car's design. It's Matiz, a campact car built by GM Daewoo. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Matiz, the company held a design contest for the car's exterior. The grand prize went to a college student Shin Hye-kyung. She received 3 million won.

When I saw this design, I thought that it would be really nice if the car manufacturers would put these kinds of designs (chosen by the customer) on the car exterior. If the car manufacturers allowed customers to choose designs for their cars, then we could each have an individual car that is distinctive. ;) We could personalize it to our style and taste.

about presentation

We had presentation last week and as a professor mentioned that

presentation has to be visualized when we have to present. Since

then, I am trying to visualize most of presentation for the most

of my classes. However, what I realize for presentation in the

real world is different from what I just learned. Even though,

most of presentation has to be visualize in order to deliver

information simple as possible to the other, presentation of the

real world has sort of different from what I expected. What I

realize is definition of presentation is for clients or listeners.

Eventually one of friends of mine who work at Deloitte showed

her presentation for LG Display and her presentation has a lot

of words. One of the biggest of reasons that has a lot of words in

presentation is taste of clients. I think if we look at worldwide

business then visual presentation is not the only way to present

to others. The best way to present is customize presentation for

clients in order to deliver as much as I can.

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Shizuoka Broadcasting (Interesting Ad)

Shizuoka Broadcasting (Interesting Ad) (continued)

Introduction: Consumers are no longer subject to loud shouts by the companies, or are they just gullible enough to accept the facts as they are exposed to. They think and know their rights as they hold a special power called the consumer sovereignty. It is rarely aruguable that a company's success derives from a strong, intimate and personal relationship with its customers. The saying that, "customer is the king", has become one of major business priciples and companies better be aware that these group of people should not be perceived as just money-makers, but a potential factors that can influence success on its longevity scale.

The company: As I was streaming through interesting video clips in youtube.com, I have found a very funny clip about Shizuoka Broadcasting. The above video is the one. This led my curiosity to search deeper about Shizuoka Broadcasting System, Inc. It is a Japanese broadcaster in Shizouka. Its radio station is affiliated with Japan Radio Network (JPN) and National Radio Network (NRN), and its TV station is affiliated with Japan News Network (JNN). However, it first started with Shizuoka Newspaper in 1941. Then in 1952 the broadcasting was born as the civil law radio station of Shizuoka. It was not until 1958 that it started its television broadcasting. Ever since then, the company has grown with viewer's attention of the SBS as it became more accustomed to Japanese tv station.

Expectations:The commercial was very interesting and simple. Basically the theme of the ad was that Shizuoka was enthusiastic about viewers' wants. However, was the ad just to catch viewers' attention without any firm promises or guarantees that the Shizuoka's main interest was really the viewers' wants? I have searched via internet and have found that Shizuoka is a real promise-keeper. In January 2008, Shizuoka has selected Datacraft, Asia's leading IT solutions and services company, to construct earthquake-safety High Availability Network (HAN) equipped with Network Admission Control (NAC). Shizuoka headquarter is based on Tokaido fault line where earthquakes occur every 100 to 150 years (last one being occured at 1854). The contract to adopt Datacraft by Shizuoka was valued at $600,000, but as Mr. Koichi Sugiyama (Managine Director of Admin Dept of SBS) said, “the SBS media organization has a long-standing commitment to ensure that it continues to broadcast news – on radio, television and in print – even in the worst possible physical circumstances", the investment is considered more valuable than the digits mentioned. Ever since the lesson of 911 attack of New York, a quick recovery in disaster is very crucial for broadcasters which communicate daily updated news and etc. In case of such emergencies, SBS is preparing to meet the viewers needs as they expect what is expected of a best broadcaster.

Conclusion: Not only is SBS dedicated in producing what they have been doing, they are concerned about the extreme circumstances. When such circumstances occur, SBS is ensuring the viewers to count on them to produce fast news. Truly, isn't that what the viewers want? Fast news despite the hardships broadcasters might face to produce them?

(resource) http://www.datacraft-asia.com/pages/subpage3_1.asp?page=3&rptid=262

(video link) http://youtube.com/watch?v=jsw_iBZlgMI&feature=related

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20600674 Entry #8 (Daddy diaper bags, barking robots fill ’08 niche)

Rucksack-like diaper bags that dads can carry without embarrassment, tourist packages for senior citizens and mobile phones with tracking chips for children are among the year’s most promising products, according to the National Statistical Office’s analysis of “BlueSumers.”BlueSumer, a word created by the statistics agency, means consumers drawn to “blue oceans,” a phrase that describes new, uncontested markets. The agency designated seven BlueSumer categories for 2008 yesterday.
They include:
1. parents of only children
2. young consumers seeking high-end goods and services
3. middle-aged and older consumers actively seeking travel and cultural services
4. childless couples and couples whose children have grown who have time for romance
5. stay-at-home dads and house husbands
6. people who live alone
7. children and parents concerned about the increasing crimes against children.

“We interpreted changes in social trends and consumer sensitivity based on national data,” the statistics agency said in a statement. “After analyzing the population, consumption and other statistics, we have designated the BlueSumers.”For example, the agency pointed out that people in their 50s accounted for 17.5 percent of overseas tourists last year, higher than any other age group. In addition, spending on culture and entertainment by people in their 50s or older is increasing. Accordingly, the agency said travel and leisure packages for older people and cosmetic surgery that hides aging are promising products.Also, with the number of sexual crimes against children under 13 rising to 1,081 in 2007 from 642 in 2003, worried parents will purchase mobile phones for their children with tracking chips and security services that guard children’s safety, the agency said.

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Due to the change in social trends, it seems like travel agencies, cosmetic surgeons, and mobile phones with tracking chips industries are going to do well this year 2008. With increasing sexual crimes against children, it seems like the industry with security services that guard children's safety is going to boom this year.
Also, with increasing babyboomers who retire, the travel agencies with leisure package programs for the retirees are going to do really well.

If you are planning to invest in Korea, invest into the industries mentioned above.