26th August 2009 – Lesson 11
30 August 2009
Ms. Suma told us that she’s going to show us two videos today. Ms. Suma asked us to discuss on our industry project while waiting for the video buffering. So for our group discussion, we have discussed our company would be an agency under Prudential Insurance. We had also planned schedule and brain stormed for the three types of work life balance activities that we had decided during the previous lesson.
The first video that we watched was about a guy called Richard Branson and the title of the video was “Life at 30,000 feet”. He was the leader of an airline company called Virgin, which has around 55,000 employees working in his company. In this video, Richard Branson shared his success behind the story which includes the ups and downs of his career which lead him to become a multibillionaire today and also talked about work life balance that practice in his company. Richard Branson had a strong believe that if you treat well, people will come back for more, which means that if you treat people good, in return they will treat you good also or even more. He also emphasized that we should be fair in dealing with people. From this video, I’ve learned about leadership and motivation.
The second video was about teen millionaires. The first one was Cameron Johnson, who started his business since he was young and was very successful during his age of 12 and can managed to earn $50,000 in a day. Now he was a millionaire and he had 12 businesses at his age of 21. In this video, he also shared his success which was motivated by Donald Trumph. The second one was Ashley Qualls, who started her web pages business during the age of 14, which lead her to earn around $50,000 to $70,000 per month and she managed to buy a house and staying with her mother currently. Both of them started to make money at a very early age and I’ve learned that motivation can lead to success. Before Ms. Suma dismissed the class, she reminded us to submit the minutes of meeting in the next lesson.