Missy Ingonyama Fang, an MBA

Part 4  – Finding Your Passion According to an introduction from the Wikipedia, Ten thousand villages (website, https://www.tenthousandvillages.com/ ) is a nonprofit organization that markets handcrafted products made by disadvantaged artisans from more than 120 artisan groups in more than 35 countries.  It was founded by American Edna Ruth Byler in 1946 to fight against poverty she witnessed. It is a founding member of the International Fair-Trade Association and a certified member of Fair-Trade Federation. This fair-trading art piece is the passion I can envision myself to share. I am an Artist ---- by @hilihouserock.com Driven by passion, seized by obsession delighted by creation enthralled with expression entranced by vision diverted by daydreams filled with emotion fueled by compulsion consumed with beauty and blindsided by inspiration A couple of years ago, I was so distressed with a situation of widespread denials for who I am. One day, I was

Part 3 - Leadership Interview       The Writing Center serves the entire 5000 students of the CU, its tutoring staff are students as well but has at least a 3.2 GPA. The Center has its academic mission to empower its student clients to improve in their individual writing project and to provide information & resources for their specific writing projects, but its tutoring objectives “recently changed from helping out school assignments to address higher-level academic concerns (Fang, 2018)”. Plus, its new director Dr. Pom is a completely different style director compares to its former director’s homey easiness style. The curiosity is if Dr. Pom is the leader who can lead the Center to accomplish such upgraded objectives?       When Dr. Pom started her job as a director, she discovered the Center has a status quo of “welcoming, inclusive, loose-tied hard-working, freelance scheduling, assignment finishing focused, and enthusiastic, but disobedient ethical norms (Fang, 2018).

Part 2 – Serving and Being Served       Servant leadership is "a philosophy and set of practices that enrich the lives of individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world (Greenleaf, 1970)", which focus on the customers, followers, and organization itself (Wikipedia, 2018). The core belief in servant leadership is leading to consistently providing high-quality personal service to everyone that one comes into contact with, including one’s self (Shek & Lin,2015). Servant Leadership is Serving-ship       Different from a transformational leader, a servant leader focuses not on the goal of the organization but on providing services to organization itself, customers and staff; a servant leader influences others not by using known psychological models but by satisfying others’ needs; a servant leader focuses not on an issue itself but on developing in people’s growth, on improving people’s skills to solve problems, and on bui

Part 1 – What Is Your Leadership Style? Leadership Style Leadership is to get the job done Leadership style is a leader’s unique talents to set tasks, to provide guiding, to build up a team, and to achieve the objectives. Brain Neese in his 2014 article “6 Business leadership styles” identified coercive (“Do what I tell you”), authoritative(“Come with me”), affiliative(“People come first”), democratic(“what do you think”), coaching (“Try this”), and pacesetting(“Do as I do”) as the 6 basic leadership styles in business. “Each one springing from different components of emotional intelligence. Each style has a distinct effect on the working atmosphere of a company, division, or team, and, in turn, on its financial performance (Goleman,2000)” My first job was a pharmacologist in a China-FDA Nanjing branch, that part of this job was the yearly inspection of the local pharmaceutical industry. This work experience trained me to have coercive leadership style when rules or the