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In the 3 years I have been at Baruch I have met and become friends with many students who are from different parts of the world. Most of these students have inherited values from their families and others have learned them while in school. Some of the values I have seen in them are: accomplish, achievement, community, education, integrity, friendship, personal growth, pursuit of goal and teamwork. New students might have one or two different values as the ones I mentioned but overall I think all of us have between three to five values in common which I believe are: pursuit of a goal, education, teamwork, personal growth and achievement. In the article by Collins and Porras “Building your Company’s Vision” mentions that core values are very important because they are the essential and enduring principles of an organization and they must stand the test of time. This statement is very true because students at Baruch have many different values but the ones will stand for a long time I think are pursuit of goal, achievement and personal growth. The other values I mentioned above are indeed values that they have now as students but I believe they will fade as time goes by and may not become core values in their lives.
As stated it in the article Building your Company’s Vision “envisioned future consist of two parts: a 10 to 30 audacious goal plus vivid descriptions of what it will be like to achieve the goal”. The majority of the students at Baruch who are business majors envision landing an internship or a full time job in big corporations such as Ernest and Young, Deloitte, IBM or Chase while others who are international students plan to go back to their country of origin and work there in a big corporation or in their family business. This is their short term goal but their long goals I believe are to work there for a long time until they finally reach their goal of becoming the new CEO or CFO of any of those business or corporations. I think that the values learned in school along with their capabilities, convictions and their commitment to personal growth would make them to be the next great generation of leaders that can make changes to the world where we live now.