Chapter 10

 In this chapter , the author mostly talked about the Shackleton's behavior's in the expedition, so it was rather difficult to follow the important part for the leader. However, I was very interested in the last part.
 The author says that good leaders think that things do not go smooth and it is natural that things often go wrong. I thought that leaders should act in order to avoid being in not-well situation. So I thought quite opposite from the authors. I learned that the important part of the leader was to welcome the conflict and be motivated to recover the situation. It is very difficult. And I felt that this ability may be come from leader's optimism. If we do not think in a optimistic way, we cannot be motivated to change the situation. I guess every strategy for the leader is somewhat connected.

Comments about Kitashiro's speech

 On Monday we had a speech of Mr.Kitashiro who was the manager of IBM. He had quite a few employees below him, and he made success during his job as a leader.
 I was surprised to realize that he was very sociable and tatlkative person. From his speech to us, I learned a lot of things.He talked about the tips for the ideal leader, and one of them was "Integrity". This means to behave honestly even when other people are not beside you. This was very unique idea to me and has never come up to me. Leaders have to be honest and have to be confident with his behavior. Maybe we lose confident often as a leader, but we should not lose it and be optimistic as a leader.
 Also, he wrote that "be prepared for the meeting." It is very interesting tip. I could not figure out why it is a inportant part for the leader, so I should have asked it.
 Overall he talked many things which were common with Shackleton's skills, so I felt that there are lots in common between ideal leaders.
 This opportunity was very valuable and I really enjoyed this. Thank you, Mr.Kitashiro and Ken.

How to deal troublemakers?

In this part, the author focused on how we should do with the troublemakers in the community. In the expedition, the was some people who troubles others. In those cases, Shackleton tried to set them close to him. Then, he tried not to cause troubles with others. In some time, he let that guy go. In some cases, the author said that it is better to leave them alone.

In today’s discussion, we talked about what we would do with that kind of people. All of us said we would leave them alone. I was among them. However, in a big community or organization, things wouldn’t go like that. There would be a time we have to focus on them even if we do not want to. That is, when troublemaker form groups and have a big influence. In Japan, DPJ always have to consider the Ozawa group’s opinion. In 内閣, there is always a person who is in Ozawa group. The Prime minister does not have a choice but to consider them because they are groups and have a power. So, I think that leaving someone will cause a big trouble, especially in a big group.

5 The Team Message

 It was very interesting to read this chapter. In this chapter, the author writes about the team. The author pointed that treating the upper people and lower people at the same time is difficult but very important point for the leader. The example about Weinbach was surprizing. He tries to make the firm better by collecting a number of opinion from all employees. Showing understanding, is very important. As we learned about the negotiation, that skill is also needed for a leader.
 As is written that Shackleton hold the hair-cut ceremony, and tried to unify crews. It is said "common identity." In sports, I think there is also an example of common identity.
 
There is a kind of custom that high school baseball players shave their heads and make integrity. I think this action is to show their motivation or strength. Also, it would be to share the "common identity." Not only baseball, a high school soccer team "国見" does the same thing. It is very rare in soccer, but it may be a custon of that high school to have thieir common identity.

Be optimistic

 For this post, I would like to write about the Strategy 3, Optimism and reality. As is written, Shackleton was known as a great optimistic person.I also thought that trying to maintain optimistic feeling is important during the expedition.
 In this chapter, I was really interested in the Chinese letter "危機”. I have never paid attention to each letters so I was surprised after learning this origin. "危" means danger and ”機” means opportunity. There is a word "ピンチはチャンス” . It means that "Change a pinch to a Chance". This is often said in sports. I learned that kind of optimistic way of thinking is important part for leadership.

Comments about the Wednesday's class

 In yesterday's class, we learned about the 8 tactics for the negotiation. And one of the strategies I am interested was Speed Ups. It was to make the deadline earlier, and bring the decision forward. I had an experience that others once used this tactics to me.
 When I was the third grade in high school, I planned with my friends to go skiing. We looked for the package plan, found a good one. I went to reserve this package, and tried to pay money after collecting all of them. A few days later, I got a phone by the tour company and was told " If you cannot pay money by today, the package would be fully booked by other people."
 In that situation, I guess the company tried to bring our decision forward, and tried to let us fully be a client of that package plan. So it is not certain that the package would be fully booked. I noticed that we and others often use these tactics in our daily lives.