Missy Ingonyama Fang, an MBA

MBA Leadership Reflection MBA509 Program Final Project: Organizational Assessment (PPT) MBA513 Final Project: Committed to Leadership (Course Reflection Summary PPT) MBA503 Final Project: Leading Organizational Change (Course Reflection Summary PPT) MBA509 Organization Assessment  (Summary Final Project PPT) I was asked why I want to have an MBA and what will be my concentration, I said I want to know how I can start my own business, and I want to learn where and how to start if I walk into a for-rent space. After this Organization Assessment course, I know  I have learned knowledge that enables me to analyze internal challenges about an organization, and to lead the organization or to start a small business of my own. The objectives in learning Organizational Assessment is to learn to assess an organization according to the performance excellence standards to identify an organization's overall internal challenges in achieving its mission. In this project, the asse...

Part 5 – Leadership Challenges In his 2017 interview with Mosaic, Ten Thousand Villages’ CEO Carl Lundblad mentioned one of the Villages ’ challenges is being far-stretched in the Villages’ efforts to help others to “discover their own abilities and potential by achieving something they might not have thought possible (Mosaic, 2017)”, especially in how to thrive through empowerment-focused model to bring retails business with the mission together to “help families to thrive the communities to flourish around the world (Lundblad, 2017) ” Far-stretched, which will biologically cause muscle pain and psychologically cause low confident in achieving probability, possible is due to the aloofness caused by a remote connection with the targeted recipients of the efforts that Ten Thousand Villages are trying. As Lindblad mentioned, how to bring retails business to serve the Villages’ mission is the challenge the Villages currently facing in its efforts to reach to its artisan communiti...

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 d...

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 disobedien...

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 p...

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...

This is an introduction to my new blog that will be mainly used for MBA related articles. This blog will start off with Leadership essay for my MBA 513 class, and I will upload some posts from time to time if I have some thoughts on MBA related. This is also to celebrate I am about several months away from Master of Business Administration graduation in 2019. So far, I have graduated from Master of Computer Science in 1999, and Bachelor of Pharmacology in 1990. ----October 31st, 2018