Writing Assignment #1

Actually it is very hard to think about my future vision. But wherever I work for, I want to be a competent business person.

So my long-term vision is to be a capable person who, if being the top of the organization or a department, can lead others to the right place and make benefit.

And I think that competent person has a higher viewpoint. In my opinion, what ordinary people do is just to follow the superiors' opinions or ideas. However, I guess that competent person can look a present condition or something from two perspectives, one is from that person's own point of view and the other is the viewpoint of some organization itself. What I want to say is to become a capable person, I think I need a subjective view point and an objective view point.

To achieve this goal, I made a short-term goal. As you know now I am the captain of the ICU Baseball Club, and actually I decide every days' training (practice) menu and the starting lineup of the game by myself. This is really a good experience for me but sometimes quite difficult. This is because I have to grasp whose condition is good/bad to decide starting lineups, and what is worse, there are 6 seniors in our team so sometimes I have to say bitter messages to them.

Therefore, I would say that I have an opportunity to improve the two-dimension viewpoint as I mentioned above through my captain experience. By seeing other player's condition and deciding the starting lineups, or discuss seniors, I believe I can improve my objective point of view because nobody follows me if I behave based on only my own subjective opinion.

Now, to make this happen, I would like to do two things. First, I try to practice harder than anybody else in our team and make my message persuasive. I think nobody trust or follow me if my baseball skill is not enough but say that "you are not in good condition and I do not let you go to the ground" or something like that. Word is important, but behavior is sometimes more important. Second,  I try to treat me as another person, that is, I should be a leader of the team but also should be the one of the members of the team. If I am not in good condition, I have to stay at bench. I believe this is another way to make objectivity.

If I would say my short-term goal in one sentence, this is it. To make my leadership realize, get as many "wins" of the game as possible. 

Through this baseball experience, I want to get a higher perspective which other players do not have, and I want to connect this precious opportunity to my long-term vision. Someday I want to be a leader who is followed by every colleague.

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