A day before halloween, many of the students were dressed up! But that did not stop us from having one of the greatest presentations (in my opinion) this term. I was not able to participate in Kitashiro-san's lecture so I cannot say anything about that, but I really enjoyed the presentation that Mr. Floyd and Dr. Daisy did today.
Although it was brief, the information was very packed together and kept my eyes open the whole time. It's incredible to think that one person, in this case Dr. Daisy, was able to turn the whole situation around and is still continuing to prosper. When Dr. Daisy was telling us about how he gave the vice presidents and directors the right to speak up and actually do more work, it reminded me of the lessons that Shackleton taught us. Shackleton gave all of his crew members a special job so that they felt a good kind of pressure to do their job for the team. Dr. Daisy was doing the same thing with his co-workers so that each person had their own job and so that they can create a better environment together. Dr. Daisy was also in a completely different environment than what he was used to and he had to completely change the way things were run at the college. Like he said near the end of his presentation, I can imagine how there will be some people who will have trouble coming out of their shell. But I found it great how Dr. Floyd believes that he can get at least 80% of his people to get used to the new way of things:) At the very end, when Mr. Floyd wrapped things up, I realized how I was so drawn into their presentation that I completely forgot about the time! Even though we did not have much time to peer edit, I really enjoyed today's presentation and am glad that we got to spend a good amount of time on it.
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