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I’m type of the person that likes to lead by example.  When I was working as a manager on my parents’ restaurant, I was the one that is working the hardest.  I like my employees to see how the job is supposed to be done and what the expectations are for the job.  To lead by example is not always personally showing the employees how to do the job, it is also about the attitude that I bring to the work.  I will give 100% to my job, whether it’s slicing onions, taking customer orders or cooking meals.  I believe that when people are focusing, they can do a much better job on just about everything.

In all of my years as Baruch college student, I have plenty of opportunities to work in group for presentations, term projects and small discussions.  At the beginning, I really hate to work in group because I don’t communicate well with people.  Most of time, I would just follow along, do my parts and deal with it.  It is not until the later years of my school days, that I started to appreciate listening to people who has different opinion, and able to form a logical argument for their opinion.

Generally, the most challenging part of the group project is communication.  Everyone has their own style of doing things, their own timeline, and their own agenda.  Also on top of all that, we also face language barriers because Baruch is such a culturally diverse college.  Sometime it is impossible for all members of the group to work together, we often divides our responsibility into smaller parts, and assigns each member with their own share of work.  The digital communication plays a big role in communication.  Emails and text messages are the two most used ways of communication when working as group.