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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” - Kahlil Gibran
The first company to offer such services was the Fung Wah Bus, which began routes between New York City and Boston in 1998.[3] The bus service was originally intended for transporting ethnic Chinese restaurant workers from one Chinatown to Chinatowns in other cities. Now, some bus lines are also used to transport large groups of mainly Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants to and from casinos such as Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, which are located in Connecticut. These gambling buses built upon the popularity of older bus routes to Atlantic City that also targeted Asian American customers.
Given their relatively competitive fares to the mainstream Greyhound Lines, it has become popular among non-Chinese customers as well, especially students. The bus service has gained such popularity that it was mentioned in several articles in the New York Times and on the radio programs Marketplace and Morning Edition on National Public Radio.[original research?] Recently, competition has come from the Jewish-owned Washington Deluxe and Vamoose, both of which have mostly non-Chinese customers.
Increasing popularity has also led to increasing regulatory interest. In September 2004, the City of Boston required Chinatown bus services to shift their operations from the city's Chinatown to the South Station transportation terminal.
Fung Wah นั้นถือว่าเป็นที่เพิ่งของคนเบี้ยน้อยหอยน้อยอย่างเราจริงๆ เพราะไปกลับ NYC ก็จ่ายแค่เที่ยวละ $15 เท่านั้น จะเห็นได้ว่าบนรถ ไม่ได้มีแต่คนเอเชียเท่านั้น ฝรั่งมังค่า เจ้าของประเทศเองก็ใช้บริการ Fung Wah กันอย่างอุ่นหนาฝาคั่ง ด้วยความที่มันถูกมากๆ ในขณะที่ quality ก็อยู่ในระดับที่พอรับได้
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Orlando - the rest |
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Sloan Follies |
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ThaiSloani |
Joana: “Is it time to eat yet?”
Magic 8 Ball: “My sources say yes.”
Eric: “Should we order pizza?”
Magic 8 Ball: “The future looks hazy.”
Mengjin: “How about Thai?”
Magic 8 Ball: “No”
Joana: “Let’s have Chinese then”
Magic 8 Ball: “Maybe another time”
Eric: “Should we order pizza?”
Magic 8 Ball: “Outlook not so good”
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Although the Magic 8 Ball was surprisingly consistent in predicting that we would not order pizza, we ended up ordering pizza.
After working for almost 10 hours on our presentation for the McKinsey Business Technology Challenge, any excuse not to think was welcomed. The challenge: pick a Fortune 100 company and show how one of four technologies can dramatically improve it. That is a pretty broad topic to cover. The technologies were crowd-sourcing (like this blog), ubiquitous connectivity, virtual worlds and smart network elements. My team’s task was to build a case for the company to adopt a new technology complete with financial models. All that to be reduced into a 12 page PowerPoint presentation due within 48 hours.
Not knowing that it was a long weekend when I signed up for the competition, I was not looking forward to spending it PowerPointing at all. Amazingly, this challenge has turned out to be a lot of fun. I got to brush up on chapter 1 of my Mandarin lesson, made some new friends and learned new things including the risks that a company would consider when evaluating a new technology.
This has been a weekend very well spent. It was intense but enjoyable. I felt that I accomplished something rather than wasting my weekend away sleeping. I would strongly recommend anyone who is interested in consulting to participate in at least one competition. Having participated in both the AT Kearney Case Competition and the McKinsey Business Technology Challenge, I do prefer the shorter case competitions over the longer ones.
Good luck on your case competition!
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TSMIT Sonkran Party |
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The end of Spring Break |
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Seattle - 2nd day |
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Sanfrancis |
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SanFrancis |
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LA-1st day |
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Wine Tasting + Suki |
Reflection Paper | Distributed Leadership
Leadership is always a difficult topic to understand. I used to be a member of a team that designed a leadership development program for a company in
Through the past six years of my career in human resource development and organizational development, I have seen a lot of employees, especially senior ones, afraid of stepping out of their own comfort zone and with no aspiration for improvement. No one is to blame but the system. It is the system that prevents people at the bottom level of an organization from being creative and having self-confidence. To solve this problem, we need to refurbish our old beliefs and conventional organizational structure. Leadership should be distributed to employees at all levels of the organization.
Nevertheless, it is hard to break old habits. I have a lot of questions in my mind that the workshop did not answer. Does Distributed Leadership create a shift of power? If so, will top management feel secure to delegate their power? As a general rule, more power or more authority comes with more responsibility. Will people, who have been in a comfort zone for most of their working lives, accept that?
To be honest, I expected to learn more regarding the implementation of a Distributed Leadership concept within an organization, especially how to make top management buy-in. I see a lot of growth and learning opportunities in several companies which have been locked up for many years. Distributed leadership might be the key that can unlock those opportunities by letting people show their real potential and expose their creativity. The workshop gave a clear picture of how to develop leadership in oneself but did not touch as thoroughly as it could have on helping others realize their leadership potential.
Personally, one of the most rewarding aspects of the workshop was the opportunity to reflect about myself, my vision and my goals. I rarely have the chance to sit down quietly and listen to my inner-self. To do so made me feel revitalized and fresh again.
In sum, I think Distributed Leadership is a class that all MBA students should take. MBA often focuses us too much on hard skills but I personally believe that soft skills are far more important in the long run.
“The greatest leader isn’t necessarily the one who does the greatest things. The greatest leader is the one who gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan