Dreamer

"What I learned in Business School"

어린왕자 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:35:33 GMT

an excerpt from "The world is flat" page 512
same reason I want to do business

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What would possess a 43-year-old father to abandon an extremely successful 20-plus-year career in the non-profit world for a two-year slog through business school and the trauma of starting a new business halfway around the world? My life has always been about doing the greatest good for the greatest number. I have chosen to focus my efforts on protecting the environment, which is the underpinning of human existence on the Earth. For me it has always been about the mission,with organizations being the means to that end. For over twenty years that organization was the non-profit Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), one of the world's most effective environmental advocacy groups. At NRDC I had the good fortune to have worked on four continents helping goverments and businesses create policies, programs and projects that help the environment. As a founding member and volunteer for the U.S. Grean Buidling Council, I founded the LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building rating system, which - due to the dedication of hundreds of volunteers like myself and tireless efforts of the USGBC staff - has become the premier green building ceritification system in the world. Without a doubt I had made a difference.

Yet, my experience in the field made me realize that I needed to chart a different course. For many years when people come to me at NRDC for advice about how to get involved and make a difference with the environment, invariably they would ask me to which law program or environmetal science program they should apply. Instead, I would recommend that people go to business school. My advice was based on my belief that the legal and regulatory frameworks for environmental protection largely have been established. Given our current situation, I realized that now it was about diffusion and implementation - and implementation is where business excels. This belief coupled with the simple fact that there were far more environmental lawyers and scientists floating around than environmental businessmen and that green business was needed to put environmental protection on the ground

I felt that the main reason mainstream business continues to be a cause of environmental problems instead of its solution is that business-as-usual continues to use 19th-century economics and 20th-century engineering when trying to solve 21st-century problems. i saw the need for new green frameworks for business- where the clean path is the most profitable. Economics, finance and accounting are human laws and can be changed unlike, say, gravity, which is a natural law- one that applies to all species,not just one. We need to realign these human laws with natural law unles we want to be a bad biological experiment on the planet. I felt that as a (hopefully to be successful) businessperson I could make the case for this paradigm shift more effectively than as a non-profit environmental advacate. But to be an effective change agent, I felt I needed to know something about the system I was trying to change. So I finally took my own advice and went to Columbia Business School. Over the course of my MBA program I learned or reaffirmed three main things

1. Doing business well is very, very hard.
2. Few people do business well
3. The conceptual frameworks and tools underlying the conduct of today's business are hopelessly outdated - as noted above

I think the process of establishing a new business framework will be one of learning by doing - where theory and observation play each other to create a truly sustainable way of providing people with what they want. As a first step, we need to get the market and regulatory polemicists off each other's back. Both are right and both are wrong: markets and regulations each are necessary, but not sufficient. Good regulation makes markets work properly and removes the worst actors, while markets stimulate innovation and efficient delivery of goods and services. My goal in going to business school and switching hats from the non-profit to the business sector is to be a model for a new paradigm where business can effectively and efficiently operate on a large scale for the betterment of humankind. Wish me luck.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

어린왕자 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:45 GMT

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

눈치 채지 못하게 가르쳐라

어린왕자 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:43:13 GMT

눈치 채지 못하게 가르쳐라

배움은 아는 것을 찾아내는 것이다.
행함은 아는 것을 증명하는 것이다.
가르침은 다른 사람들에게
그들도 당신만큼 잘 알고 있음을 알려주는 것이다.

- 리처드 바크

알렉산더 포프는 ‘사람을 가르칠 때는 그 사람이 눈치채지 못하게 가르치고,
새로운 일을 제안할 때는 잊어버렸던 것이 생겨난 듯이 말하라’고 말했습니다.

사람들은 누구나 남에게 가르침을 당한다는 것을 꺼려합니다.
스스로 알게 된 것 처럼 생각할 수 있도록 해주는 조그마한 배려가
결국에는 혼자 일어설 수 있게 하는 자양분이 됩니다.

p.s how can I do this? um... I really want to learn these skills.

POSTECH 대학원, 국적 안 따지고 ‘철강 석학’ 영입

어린왕자 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:12:28 GMT

http://news.joins.com/article/aid/2009/10/22/3515053.html?cloc=nnc

Postech에서 1000억을 들여서 추진하는 철강대학원.
Fighting! Postech!

"지식인 리더십 꼴찌, 교수 공직 부적합"(종합)

어린왕자 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:58:06 GMT

http://media.daum.net/society/others/view.html?cateid=1017&newsid=20091020094106595&p=yonhap

Not at all surprising.

Leadership is a kind of an art governed by the law of Anna Karenina
" Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".

Scholars (experts) are on the exact opposite side to this. Leaders try to maintain certain level in every area but scholars focus on only one area.

Mark Twain

어린왕자 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:55:16 GMT

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"
Mark Twain

An important thing is to read and to read "good books". That's why the quantity doesn't matter.

La fracaise

어린왕자 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:13:04 GMT

Je vais etudier la francaise.
Je vais ecouter la radio "rfi" chache jour.

http://www.rfi.fr/

c'est parti.

프랑스에도 뛰어난 MBA 과정이 많답니다

어린왕자 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:10:29 GMT

http://news.mk.co.kr/outside/view.php?year=2008&no=747791

가장 중요한 부문.

"두 번째 특징은 의외로 세계적으로 높은 평가를 받는 곳이 많다는 사실이다. 올해 파이낸셜타임스가 발표한 세계 비즈니스스쿨 순위를 살펴보면 HEC, ESCP-EAP, ESSEC, EM Lyon, EDHEC를 포함한 9개 그랑제꼴이 전체 톱 20위 스쿨 안에 포함돼 있다. "

그리고

"그는 “상경계 그랑제꼴에 입학하는 덴 직장 경력을 필요로 하지 않는다”면서 “열정이 넘치는 젊은 한국인들이 많이 도전해줬으면 한다”고 말했다. "

박사 과정 후에 이쪽으로 방향을 잡아야 겠다.

Surprising science of motivation

어린왕자 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:14:44 GMT

We no more need carrots and sticks.
I want to make a company which will be a role-model of this thought.

To my husband : Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation

what a wonderful speech is...

thank you so much, soo-jung~~

일본 "꿈의 직장" 미라이공업

어린왕자 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:47:04 GMT

일본에서 '꿈의 직장'이라 불리는 미라이공업. 창업주인 야마다 아키오는 인본주의 경영으로 직원들의 업무 몰입을 유도했다. 그는 "사람은 말이 아니다. 당근만 주면 될 뿐 채찍은 필요없다"며 직원들에게 무한한 신뢰를 보냈다.
직원들이 열심히 일하고 있는지 일일이 살펴보지 않지만 직원들은 자신들에게 부여된 신뢰에 보답하기 위해 100% 이상의 능력을 발휘한다. 미라이공업의 하루 노동시간은 7시간 15분에 불과하고 연간 휴일도 143일로 일본 상장기업 중 가장 길다. 정년도 70세로 늘렸고 출산휴가도 3년이나 되지만 실적은 업계1 위다.

출처. 매일경제
http://news.mk.co.kr/newsRead.php?sc=30000017&cm=%EA%B8%B0%EC%97%85%C2%B7%EA%B2%BD%EC%98%81%20%EC%A3%BC%EC%9A%94%EA%B8%B0%EC%82%AC&year=2009&no=484917&selFlag=&relatedcode=&wonNo=&sID=501

p.s. 이런 회사 좋잖아~~
우리나라 모든 회사가 이렇게 된다고 생각해봐^^