WHAT DID I LEARN?

I think all semester along I learned interesting material. My 3 biggest lessons I would say are : the decision making and people’s behavior during the decision making, the power of vision and that vision without action is just a dream, and the organization design and the different type of the organization designs with their pros and cons. I didn’t really used the book that much I mostly studied from Wiley Plus and the slides on blackboard, but one thing that I remember from the book is the 4 I’s which are: improve, invest, incubate, and imagine. I think mostly what I remember about things said in class is the stories that the professor told us about his career, and the class activities that we did before every lecture. I think the professor managed the class pretty well; he used different management techniques to increase the feedback and tried always to involve everyone in the discussion. Overall the one think that I will never forget it will be the egg activity, because it was our first exercise of the class and it really challenged us during the entire process including the planning process. 

I personally had a great time in this class during the entire semester, and I thank the professor for all the effort he did to help us learn Management in the best way it exists.                HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

Motivation

This was by far the best class that I have taken at Baruch. The professor is really clear with the material and he uses different techniques that I think other professor need, to improve their teaching. Using the skill variety helped me a lot in understanding the different topics that were covered in this semester. The exercises before every lecture made me curious to attend the next class and see what the professor is going to talk about. Also I liked the way that professor allowed us to give feedback about everything: topics in class, about his teaching style, what we thought about the test and help him to improve the test format etc.

What motivated me the most is the rewards, and the way the professor was trying to meet our needs. Every time I got an extra credit for an exercise I got motivated and tried to participate more in the lecture. After the first exam the one most of the class did bad the professor was very generous in offering us to make a choice in what we going to do with our grades, weather to drop the lowest curve anything we wanted. I don’t think that any professor would allow that, and for that I thank Prof. Kurpis..Thank YOU!!

After all I don’t think that the professor needs to offer more for this class, because basically he gave us more than he should.

High S w/I

This was an awesome project and I really enjoyed the entire class session. I think that the decision did not surprise me that much because I am definitively characterized as S. I am a typical type of person and I like things done 100% at all time. Sometime speed matters but most of the time I think is important to have things done the right way.
This experiment is really good for most of the companies to use. In this way they know the different types of characters they have as employees, and it will save them a lot of money in research. As I mention it above this was a great project and I got the right results out of it. 

"The Vision of the future"

   As everyone has vision what to do with their life's in the future so do I. As we all know having just a vision without taking the action will not get nobody anywhere. At the age of 17 I had a vision to come to USA and finish my high school career, learn English and possibly continue college. Those visions ended up having success because I came to america finished with a US high school diploma and also learned the language very good.

   After I accomplished those goals I had other vision which was the transfer to Baruch College and maintain my my grade average above 3.5, and so far my transfer went well but my grade average is still on progress for another year.

   For the future I have the vision to finish college successfully, start a clothing business oversees, maybe open a subway restaurant in my country, and definitely buy myself a brand new car. As we know nothing is impossible, but we have to risk sometimes so later we can live a comfortable life.   

Decision Making Process

The decision making process on Monday was very tough in class, but after all we did it. During this process I saw people screaming, people that didn’t talk the entire class etc. In my personal experience I was using trying to make agreement that fit everybody so we can achieve together the compromise. During the class I saw people were competing to win trying to put on board what is more convenient for themselves, I saw people laying back and relaxing because of the good grade they had etc. I  think we as a group had a good leader, who was relax and stay calm during the entire process no matter what everyone was screaming about. Personally If I would had been in the leaders position I probably wouldn’t went the same way. So most of our achievement that we had we owe to our leader. Thank you!

The Group Project (Egg Protecter)

As for the planning part in the project our group applied the following steps of the planning process: we defined and understand our goals as a group, we went through step two, we did step four and we had several alternatives for the egg protector and the one we choose was the best. What we did not spend enough time was step three where we didn’t do enough predictions and that led the protector to change pointing direction and the item dropped into the weakest part. Also number five we did not spend enough time too because I think number 3,5 are linked and as we did not predict the drop we did have the need to change our model. I think our team worked together through-out the entire session, but the problem is and always will be the time. We didn’t have enough time to complete the project our more to design our egg protector. The material that we were using was hard to form anything out of straws and paper tape. Overall I think we did a good job working as a team, even though our plan did not accomplish the goal.

The difference between US culture and my countrie Culture

Even though I am not from United States I consider this country in one of the most lawful countries in the world. I come from the Republic Macedonia, which is located in Balkan-Europe. In my country the laws are in a poor level and the corruption is in a higher level than US. In US everyone can be convicted: politicians, rich people, even the president. In my country if you have a high position in politics there is a 90% chance that you will get away with it. Another thing that I experienced differently in this country is that police officers don’t accept money on the side; where as in Macedonia if a police officer pulls you over you probably can get away with twenty dollars. It sounds nice but people than forget to obey the law. Where in US the existence of the laws it’s what is keeping people mostly away from trouble.  

What I never liked about United States is the way the work with the tax system. People pay too much tax in this country. In Macedonia if you pay off the house you don’t have taxes after that. Whereas in here (USA) people pay sufficient amount of money for a house and they still have to pay taxes to the government after paying off their house. The way I see this is that buying a house in this country is pointless because it still going to remain as the property of US.

Another thing that I have seen these couple years that I live in this country is the divorce rate. It is going up every year; it is like people don’t want to have a family anymore. In my country divorce rate is less than 10% where here (US) it is over 50%. The worst things about these divorces are the children which most of them lose control and pursue life in the wrong direction. They get addicted to drugs, steal, perform poorly in school etc.

Altin Krcishta

My name is Altin Krcishta. I was born in December 24, 1989 in a little town in Macedonia called Debar. I did almost all my high-school career back home until the 11th grade. In 2007 I came into the US and graduated high-school in Randolph, Minnesota. After graduation I moved in New York and started my college career at College of Staten Island(CSI) in September of 2008. Then In January of 2010 I came into Baruch to continue my studies as an accounting major. Yeah my major is Accounting, I like numbers and also would like to make a lot of money. My minor is Information Technology and Social Responsibility, Its just to complete my tier III obligation. Well this is all about me if anyone will like to ask anything email me: altin.krcishta@baruchmail.cuny.edu.