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What a great idea!

After all of the insightful class discussions that we have had this semester I think that it is very unfortunate that we are graduating so soon. We have come up with a lot of valuable and creative ideas that can be used here at Quinnipiac and looking back, I wish that I was able to have a class similar to this earlier on in my college career so that we might have been able to implement a few of our ideas. Because we are in our senior year we have seen and done almost all that there is to do at this University and who better than us to inform the faculty and staff of what we found helpful and what we might have done differently. I really do hope that the semester long projects that we present to the deans will resonate with them and they can provide new opportunities to future graduating classes at Quinnipiac.

Suggestions for QU

Hi everyone, please post to here any helpful suggestions you have from today's class discussion regarding careers, internships, and improving the education at QU. Thanks as always for an interesting class discussion!

Orignal Post

The first main idea that sticks out to me from Drucker’s article is the idea of self awareness. He says, “Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong. More often, people know what they are not good at – and even then more people are wrong than right” (Drucker 3). This was interesting to read because I think that it is almost human tendency to know what you are good at and know what you aren’t so good at. Drucker attempts to drive home this point by saying one has to really evaluate and know oneself before they can really perform up to their potential whether it be individually or within teams. He goes on to talk about how feedback and goal setting are essential tools for getting to know one-self. I particularly enjoyed how he talked about feedback analysis and even though this isn’t a new and novel idea it is still something that is concrete and still works. The one part of the whole process that I was surprised about was when he said, “Practiced consistently (feedback analysis), this simple method will show you within a fairly short period of time, maybe two or three years, where your strengths lie – and this is the most important thing to know. The method will show you what you are doing or failing to do what deprives you of the full benefits of your strengths” (Drucker 4). This was interesting to me because through my experiences feedback is usually only in the form of a superficial team member evaluation that we as students usually don’t even get to see. Besides that I can’t remember any other type of feedback except for feedback that one would have received from being in a class with a STC. I am a little biased here but I do believe that getting feedback from someone that doesn’t have any influence on your grade or any influence on the group’s overall performance is beneficial. It allows people to really get another view of how they work from a point of view other than their own and their teammates, which is usually a little biased to say the least. In the end, even though Drucker goes on to talk about many other factors that go into really honing in on one’s own talents, I believe his most important point is in becoming as self aware as you could be.

Drucker

I thought this article was very good and practical. Looking back over a span of time to see whether you are accomplishing your goal is good common sense. This allows you to correct what you have potentially done wrong and to lay the groundwork for future development. "If it does not work, don't do it" That would be a good name for this article or "Do what you do best." Concerning the latter, I agree that if you are not talented in one area you should generally not waste your time trying to perfect your abilities there. In business, time is money. Furthermore, comparative advantage (even at this micro-level) states that everyone should specialize in what they do best for then everyone benefits. Certainly, if you are a very talented person, it will be good to develop all of your talents. But most people should stick to what they do best in business!