Chapter 16

 In this chapter, I want to write about "Cultivate poised Incompetence" and "Come to terms with Fear". For the first one, I thought this is very important. I remember that Meiland said that students should not be hesitated by their incompetence. I don't remember the exact words, but I remember that he says something like this. This section reminded me of his saying. 

 When I was a captain of the baseball cub in high school, there were some teammates who had never played baseball before. I was very surprised that they tried to start baseball from that time. One of them, who was same grade as me had never touched the ball until then. At first, he was really poor at baseball. However, he was well in motor nerve (運動神経) and he played as a regular player at the last tournament. Why he could become a good player was because he really had a motivation, I think. He was not embarrassed with his incompetence and worked really hard. Most in lunch time break, I went out to the playground and practiced with him. I was glad that he could become a good player.

 Talking about the next part, it is very difficult that we receive "Risk" or "Fear". But if we are in that situation, I think we can enjoy that situation. Three weeks ago, our club finished spring season. The last game was very serious game. I was very nervous during that game. The situation was like this;　If we win that game, we can finish the season. If not, we would be lowest rank and have to have match with the top team in the lower division. During that game, there were many times we would lose that game. As I was a pitcher, so the "lose" would be decided if I was hit by the batter. Each times when throwing, I thought we might lose, for many many times. But after other player came to my place and said me something, I lost that "lose fear" and tried to enjoy that situation when I noticed. May be I was enjoying that fear or risk at that time. As a result, we could win the game and successfully win with that fear and risk. That was very good experience for me. 

Case studies

 For this blog, I want to write about the case studies which we did last week.

 My part was Malden Mills, which is a textile company in America. The challenge of the leader of this company, Aaron Feuerstein was to recover this company from an unexpected fire. I would like to show some tactics he used to recoer the situation.

 When the fire came out from the building, he thought that if he could save the 4th building which was safe at that time, and told employees to focus only to save that building. He showed employees short-term objectives and implied that there is still a chance.

 After the accident, they could not do business for about one month. However, he decided to pay salary to all employees, though the debt of the company would become higher. He showed the feeling that we are all one, we die altogether.

 Learning about leaders who used Shackleton's strategy in case studies was very interesting. Also, other members' research were interesting. I really enjoyed last class.