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東京工業大学

ジョージア工科大学リーダーシッププログラム

Georgia Institute of Technology Leadership Program

（アメリカ合衆国・アトランタ）

Spring 2017

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Contents 1 Purpose............................................................................................................................................................................. 3 2 Schedule ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4 3 Members ........................................................................................................................................................................... 5 4 U.S.A. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 5 Details ............................................................................................................................................................................... 7

5-1 Georgia Institute of Technology .................................................................................................................... 7 5-1-1 About Campus .......................................................................................................................................... 7 5-1-2 Students Interactions .............................................................................................................................. 8

5-2 Georgia Tech Leadership Program .............................................................................................................. 9 5-2-1 Leadership Workshop ............................................................................................................................... 9 5-2-2 Strength Quest ........................................................................................................................................ 11 5-2-3 Final Presentation ................................................................................................................................... 12

5-3 A leadership and Innovation Case Study: The Belt Line Impact .................................................... 17 5-4 2017 InVenture Prize Finals ......................................................................................................................... 18

5-4-1 Overview ..................................................................................................................................................... 18 6-4-2 Results ......................................................................................................................................................... 18 6-4-3 Remarks ...................................................................................................................................................... 18

5-5 World of Coca-Cola ......................................................................................................................................... 19 5-6 Center of Civil and Human Rights .............................................................................................................. 20 5-7 CNN ........................................................................................................................................................................ 23

5-7-1 What is CNN? ............................................................................................................................................ 23 5-7-2 Headquarters building of CNN ............................................................................................................ 23 5-7-3 Tour of CNN .............................................................................................................................................. 23

6 Other................................................................................................................................................................................ 24 6-1 Foods ..................................................................................................................................................................... 24 6-2 Town ....................................................................................................................................................................... 25 6-3 Other ...................................................................................................................................................................... 27

7 Individual Feedback .................................................................................................................................................... 27

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1 Purpose 本プログラムは、ジョージア工科大学が主催する一連の学習活動への参加を通じて、海

外で活躍するため の実践的な能力やリーダーシップに必要な要素を育成することを目的

とします。

学士課程 3,4 年生の参加については,グローバル理工人育成コースの下記の 4 つのプロ

グラムのうち,4) 実践型海外派遣プログラムの一環として実施されます。

1) 国際意識醸成プログラム: 国際的な視点から多面的に考えられる能力,グローバル

な 活躍への意欲を養う。

2) 英語力・コミュニケーション力強化プログラム: 海外の大学等で勉学するのに必

要な英 語力・コミュニケーション力を養う。

3) 学技術を用いた国際協力実践プログラム: 国や文化の違いを越えて協働できる能

力や 複合的な課題について,制約条件を考慮しつつ本質を見極めて解決策を提示

できる能 力を養う。

4) 実践型海外派遣プログラム: 自らの専門性を基礎として,海外での危機管理も含め

て 主体的に行動できる能力を養う。

グローバル理工人育成コースにおける 4) の実践型海外派遣プログラムのねらいは,1)

～3) のプログラ ム履修後に学生を海外に派遣し,現在まで育成された能力を活用し,自身

の今後の研究やキャリア形成の 参考となるような経験を積むことであり,本コースの集大

成として位置づけられています。

実践型海外派遣プログラムは,下記の 4 つの能力の育成を目指すものです。

1) 自らの専門性を基礎として,異なる環境においても生活でき,業務をこなす力を持

ち,窮地を乗り切るための判断力,危機管理能力を含めて自らの意思で行動するた

めの基礎的な能力を身につ けている。

2) 異文化理解が進み,相手の考えを理解して自分の考えを説明できるコミュニケーシ

ョン能力,語学 力,表現力を身につけている。

3) 海外の様々な場において,実践的能力と科学技術者としての倫理を身に着け,チー

ムワークと協 調性を実践し,課題発見・問題解決能力を発揮して,新興国における

科学技術分野で活躍するた めの基礎的な能力を身につけている。

修士課程学生の参加については,以下の能力を育成することを目的とします。

1) 自身の長所や価値観,適正能力等についての気づきを通じリーダーシップに必要な

能力を養成す る。

2) 自身の将来についての方向性を明らかにする。

3) 異文化および分野横断的な環境の中でグループをまとめ,調整する能力を身に付け

る。

4) 異文化の環境の中での課題解決の方法を身に付ける。

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2 Schedule

Time Room/Where to Meet Activity Detail Stay

ARRIVAL- THURSDAY

3/9 4 :30 p.m. International Terminal Exit Leave Japan - Arrive Atlanta Flight: DL296Narita 17:35 / Atlanta 16:03

11 a.m. Meet at OIE, Savant Building Welcome & Icebreaker & Campus Tour Campus Map: http://map.gatech.edu/

TBD Leadership Workshop Led by Dr. Wes Wynens, Director of Leadership Education

5 p.m. TBD Reception, Student Meet & GreetTokyo Tech presentation

9:30 a.m. -Noon

Meet In Hotel Lobby Atlanta Beltline- Info & Activity More information about the beltline:http://www.news.gatech.edu/features/beltline-impact

12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

Krog Street Market Lunch More information on the Krog Street Market:http://www.krogstreetmarket.com/

3 p.m.- 7 p.m.

Meet at GT LeadershipChallenge Course

Campus Recreation-LeadershipChallenge Course

The site is at the corner of Hemphill Avenue & Ferst Drive.http://www.crc.gatech.edu/orgt/lcc/content/1/about-the-course

Day 3- SUNDAY

3/12 Travel on Own (Free day: students will visit the place ontheir own, i.e. Museum of Design )

http://www.museumofdesign.org/

11 a.m. Clough Building, Room 323 Lecture/Classroom Observation GT1000 LED Class; Topic: Giving and Receiving Feedback

12 p.m. Walk Together as Group Lunch at The Varsity Iconic Atlanta Eatery (popular with GT students)

3 p.m. Meet at OIE, Savant Building,Room 308

Strength's Quest:Individual LeadershipAssessment and Training

More information on workshop:http://engage.gatech.edu/content/strengths-leadership-initiative

10 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Meet Outside of World ofCoca-Cola

Guided Tour of World of Coca-Cola &Center for Civil & Human Rights

121 Baker St NW, Atlanta, GA 30313http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/plan-your-visit/faqs/

6 p.m. Mellow Mushroom DowntownAtlanta

Dinner with Tokyo Tech Professors http://mellowmushroom.com/store/downtown-atlanta-0#store-page-store-information-block

TBD Culture Map Presentation & Discussion

1 p.m.- 5 p.m.

Savant Building, Room 308 Presentation Preparation (room available,as needed)

6:30 p.m. Meet Outside of OIE (willwalk together to Ferst Center)

2017 InVenture Prize Finals Event http://inventureprize.gatech.edu/

Day 7- THURSDAY

3/16 Travel on Own (Free day: students will visit the place ontheir own, i.e. CNN)

http://edition.cnn.com/tour/

2 p.m. Savant Building, Room 308 Final Presentation PPT presentation followed by individual feedback for students

TBD Farewell

DEPARTURE-SATURDAY

3/18 Leave Atlanta Flight: DL295Atlanta 12:10

On board

3/19 Arrive Japan 15:30 Arrival in Narita

Georgia Institute of Technology Leadership Program March 2017

Date

Day 1- FRIDAY 3/10

Atlanta

Day 2- SATURDAY 3/11

Day 4- MONDAY 3/13

Day 5- TUESDAY 3/14

Day 6- WEDNESDAY 3/15

Day 8- FRIDAY 3/17

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3 Members ●：リーダー，◎：サブリーダー，○：エディター

氏名 Passport Name

所属（学科・専攻・コース） 学年 性別 Sir Name Given Name

Wang Gaoqi Wang Gaoqi 土木工学専攻 M2 F

●西本 達志 Nishimoto Tatsushi 生体分子機能工学専攻 M2 M

朱 正奇 Zhu Zhengqi 国際開発工学専攻 M2 M

Shigematsu Momoko 分子生命科学専攻 M2 F

◎ミョウゲツ Miao Yue 地球環境共創コース M1 F

岩瀬 駿 Iwase Shun 電気電子工学科 B3 M

小山 純樹 Oyama Junki 経営システム工学科 B3 M

小山 奈緒子 Koyama Naoko 生命工学科 B3 F

Mori Miki 生命工学科 B3 F

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4 USA introduction The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States

(U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2) there are over 324 million people. The United States is the world's fourth-largest country by total area.

The country's capital is Washington, D.C. and its largest city is New York City; The other major metropolitan areas, all with around five million or more inhabitants, are Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Houston, Miami, and Atlanta. English (American English) is the national language. In 2010, about 230 million, or

80% of the population aged five years and older, spoke only English at home. Spanish, spoken by 12% of the population at home, is the second most common language and the most widely taught second language. Most of the American people have the religion belief, which is shown as follows:

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The statue of liberty in New York City is a symbol of U.S. and the idea of the Freedom, democracy, and opportunity. The United States is a highly developed country, with the world's largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of socioeconomic performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP, and productivity per person. Mainstream American culture is a Western culture largely derived from the

traditions of European immigrants with influences from many other sources, such as traditions brought by slaves from Africa. More recent immigration from Asia and especially Latin America has added to a mix culture. It is so important to respect for difference. In world college ranking of 2017, there are 51 of them are college from U.S.A in top 100, (more than 50%) and including Georgia Institute of Technology.

5 Details 5-1 Georgia Institute of Technology

5-1-1 About Campus

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech, GATech) was founded as Georgia School of Technology in 1885. It changed its name to present name in 1948. It has 6 main colleges: College of Computing, College of design, College of Engineering, College of Science, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Scheller College of Business. Student population is more than 25,000 and undergraduates about 15,000. Male:Female ratio is about 65:35 now, which female population is about three times as large as that of Tokyo Tech. International student population is about 26%. Student ambassadors who took us around during the campus tour were also international students, from China, Indonesia and Japan. GATech is located in Midtown of Atlanta. There is the Coca Cola headquarters and

AT&T near the campus and you can easily visit them. The campus is divided into four main parts: West Campus, East Campus, Central Campus and Technology Square, which is known as Tech Square. The campus is very large, its total are is about 400 acres(1.61 ㎢). Because the campus is very huge, students take buses or Tech Trolley to move around the campus. Within the huge area, there are Student Recreation center, where there is a large swimming pool which was used in Atlanta Olympics, and Library, where there is only few books. All the books are e-books, or you need to request if you want paperback books. In Tech Square, you can find some restaurants and a large book store (Barnes&Nobles) where you can get not only books but also some Georgia Tech items, such as T-shirts, hoodies and sweat pants. A lot of these items have mascots on,

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which is known as Buzz. There is also famous Tech tower. The camps if full of green, though buildings looks very new and nice. And from the rooftop of a building inside the campus, you can see great scenery of Atlanta.

↓Campus

↑Campus Recreation Center and Tech Trolley

5-1-2 Students Interactions

We had a lot of opportunity to interact with Georgia Tech students. On the first day, the campus tour was led

by student ambassadors. All of them were international students. They showed us around the campus. One of the most interesting thing I remember is a building where flags of many different countries are being hanged. Those flags represents the countries of the international students of Georgia Tech. They explained to us that if a last person from a country were to leave Georgia Tech, he or she would have to pull down the flag. Throughout the program, we had a lot of workshops with small group discussions.

Each workshop had some students, called facilitators, to join our discussion. I was impressed by how well they lead the conversation and each had strong opinion related to the topic.

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We had some time to hang out with Georgia Tech students after school as well. On the first night, there was a reception. We made presentation to Georgia Tech students who are coming to Tokyo Tech this May for summer school. We introduced about Tokyo Tech and Japanese culture. After presentation, we had dinner together and talked about various topics. We talked about each other’s school life, family and asked them

where to visit in Atlanta as well. We also went out for dinner on another night. It was great talking with everyone and we enjoyed it very much! It was really good opportunity to get to know each other. Now that we are connected, we are all looking forward to see each other again when they visit Tokyo Tech.

↑workshop dinner→

5-2 Georgia Tech Leadership Program 5-2-1 Leadership Workshop

Dr. Wes Wynens, who is the director of Leadership education, led the leadership workshop. Based on the reading of The Culture Map. A lot of discussions were held on the workshop, such as different countries have different level of contexts, and the way that they give feedbacks, and a discussion about pros and cons of two leading styles on Egalitarian vs. Hierarchical. How can we become a better leader under the different cultural contexts. Moreover, in order to be a better leader, we need to answer the questions on

1. Who I am I? 2. What the strength I have? 3. Which of the strength helps us work in a group? By reviewing on the results of Strength Quest, which helps us better understand the

strengths we have. Applying the strengths into GT1000 Cohort Framework, which includes, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, encourage the heart and model the way. The objectives are 1. Giving self-awareness, 2. Working with others, 3. Taking action & making an impact. In addition we applied this model to a case study based on a New York Times article, and delivered a presentation of the

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result of case study.

Along with the lectures and workshops, we joined the “Leadership Challenge Course”. Different from traditional way of classroom teaching, this course will bring learners to the athletic course, and the learner performed various challenges 10 meters above the ground, “outside of comfort zone”. The group will perform several activities with a few restrictions by all group members. For example, we were to pass above the thin rope 10 meters above the group by everyone touching each other. Another activity was that the facilitator chose one group member who performed like a leader and cover his eyes. They we were to pass the station from one to others. This way, we need to communicate, encourage each other, decide the process, and overcome the physical fears. After each activity, the facilitator asked us to reflect it to real world experience. By overcoming the physical fears and meeting the activities goals, we made a great team work, which was truly an American way of team building.

Leadership and team building workshop

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5-2-2 Strength Quest

“Strength Quest” is the evaluation system to discover human strengths against 34 talents by GALLUP which have provided numerous survey data and advice to help leader and organizational issues to be solved. According to their previous surveys, it is proved that people succeed if they focus on what they are most proud of. Surprisingly strength building is more effective and useful to success than weakness fixing adapted by many Japanese companies and educational system. By answering simple questions in Strength Quest for about 30 minutes, the strength

of your own top 5 will be revealed. For example, people especially talented in the “Developer” theme recognize and cultivate the potential in others. They spot the signs of each small improvement and derive satisfaction from these improvements. People especially talented in the “Harmony” theme look for consensus. They don’t enjoy conflict; rather, they seek areas of agreement. To select 5 items from such 34 items, there are 278,256 possible patterns. Well, what does strength mean in practice? A strength is composed of talents,

knowledge and skills. First, we each have unique talents within us. One survey suggested people who are naturally good at speed reading can increase the number of words by training about 40 times as many as average readers. Knowledge is information and understanding you know such as language and geography. And skills are basic steps in a given activity such as programming and driving which don’t naturally exist. So, even if talents come naturally, we should earn strengths. By not only finding your talents but also strengthening them to strengths, you will gain higher productivity, improved performance and more ambitious efforts. How can you develop your strengths in your life and work, know yourself, know others,

manage yourself and manage others? These steps will make your strength even more excellent. In order to know others, I talked with five other students in the class who have different talent from my list. Compared to other skills, I realized that by combining several of my own top 5, my strength becomes more specific and unique than when thinking individually. In addition, I was able to understand more clearly the work environment and job I can adapt. It should be a great hint for strength assumption. Depending on their strengths, there are many kinds of leaders. Strength building is

necessary to take leadership. Through Strength Quest and lectures in the program, I could think about leadership associated with my strengths more concretely than before and learn how to utilize them in my career.

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5-2-3 Final Presentation

We made final presentation for our leadership case study. Following it the summary of each case study and finding.

5-2-3-1 A Great Leader is a Great Executer

Adena T. Friedman is the CEO of the company Nasdaq which is the exchange platform for an American stock exchange and the second-largest exchange in the world by market capitalization. Through studying her leadership, our team concluded that her career was related two practices of leadership, namely “Challenge the Process” and “Enable others to act”. First, her career can be divided to three phases; Freshman,

Career improvement and Great leader, and she faced with challenges in each phase. When she was young, she often walked around the office and asked many questions to senior employees so that she could learn much about the business. Also, she didn't wait for opportunities coming to her but seize the chance on her hand.

She did all the jobs whatever she had. As a result, she built trust and got reputation as a doer, who get the jobs done well and fast. After she married and had sons, she could keep working in good position. Her manager was kind enough to allow her to work part-time. She worked 3 days a week for 3 years and 4 days a week for the following 2 years. She made the balance between her work and family life. She became CFO in 2009 and CEO in 2017, but even after having successes like these, she did not get complacent of herself and still keeps trying to have new challenges. Second, she also knows how to enable others to act. In her opinion, great leaders are not only inspirational and motivational to their strategies, but also pursue execution. Furthermore, she believes both communication to others and using date and metrics are needed to turn strategies into execution. Through this program, we leant same thing. In our case, we challenged tightrope walk to study teamwork and leadership. During this activity, we could communicate each other a lot, but sometimes forgot to make sure the details of strategy such as calculation of the steps from start to goal and sharing the standard of “finish the course”. Without date and metrics, we couldn’t finish the course. In order to execute strategies, leaders should follow it.

Even though Adena is such a wonderful female leader, considering the situation in Japan, we found that the number of the companies which have female leaders account for 88 percentage, but the Japan is only 7.4 percentage. We have to know that in

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Japanese culture, most of the female who get married and having babies will prefer to give up their job and focus on the housework and take care of kids. On the other hand, in Japanese company, the promotion system is based on the age, so it is pretty hard to be promoted to a relatively high position when you are young. Therefore, from this case we would like to make summary from two aspects: first of all, in order to be a great leader, it is very important to Challenge the process. Which means not only following the traditional process, but try to find the new way to make the work better; and also, enable others to act is important. A great leader is not only a great executer herself/himself, but also could encourage others to execute leaders’ strategies. Secondly, based on the different culture background and company leadership system, there no judgement for which will be better, we should try to understand and respect for each other, but not tend to change the others. In different country, we could learn some benefit from the others and improve ourselves based on our own situation.

5-2-3-2 The Alchemist How Larry Merlo is Transforming CVS

[1]Background The article is how Larry Merlo as the CEO has transformed CVS which is one of the

biggest healthcare companies. U.S pharmacy market is the biggest healthcare market around the world. And CVS is a leading pharmacy company which has 9600 drug stores in U.S. Figure 5-1 shows of CVS Market share and it shows CVS market share is more than 50 % in 2015 Q4. There would be no such successful results in CVS without Larry Merlo even though

when he took over his CEO position, CVS economic situation was quite bad. Larry Merlo started his career as a pharmacist 4 decade ago in the company acquired by CVS. And then, he became CEO of CVS in 2011.

After he became the CEO, he changed CVS drastically. Figure 5-2 is changes he has made. Firstly, he changed the company name from CVS caremark to CVS Health. Secondly, he improved the revenue on pharmacy services. CVS has two business areas. One is retail pharmacy and another is pharmacy services (Figure 5-3). Pharmacy services didn’t have good revenue in 2010. And after he became CEO, in 2011, the revenue of pharmacy services improved a lot. It’s almost doubled. Lastly, he removed tobacco from CVS stores. As a result, the share price has skyrocketed. And it really demonstrated how people trusted him as a CEO. However, he faced with a central challenge during 10 years. The challenge he faced

was the changing health care environment. There is more demand of pharmacy

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services. And people pay more attention to their health. That’s why they did such as removing tobacco removing from the selves.

Fig. 5-1 Total Segment Market Share Q4 2015

Fig. 5-2 His innovation for CVS

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Fig.5-3CVS revenue on each business from 2010 to 2014 [2]Analysis Larry’s core value is health. He wanted to help people in improving health. In order

to achieve this, he had three goals in mind: increase accessibility, lower the overall cost of care and increase the quality of care. Therefore he did three things: Change the name of the company, stop selling tobacco and start MinuteClinic. He changed the name of the company from CVS Caremark to CVS Health. By doing this, he showed two practices of leadership: model the way and inspire a shared vision. Next thing he did was to stop selling tobacco. This was never done before by any other companies. Since tobacco selling had $2billion revenue, it was very challenging. By this action, he showed model the way and challenge the process. Last thing he did was to start MinuteClinic. MinuteClinic is a walk-in clinic where people can see doctors without making appointments. This had increased accessibility for sure, since half of the patients who use MinuteClinic in the evening hours or weekends when private doctors are not available. By this action, he showed two practices of leadership, model the way and challenge the process. [3]Recommendations for Larry Since Larry is a vision and value driven leader. We decided to make recommendations

based on Larry’s value. Larry really values ‘health’. This is why he put ‘health’ in the company name and stopped selling tobacco. In order to achieve ‘health’, Larry had 3 goals. Firstly, improve the access to health care; secondly, reduce the cost of health care; thirdly, improve the quality of health care. By promoting MinuteClinic, Larry did a good job on the first 2 goals since MinuteClinic is a cheap walk-in clinic located in

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CVS stores. However, since MinuteClinic is inherently a ‘fast-food restaurant’ type of clinic, we believe it is difficult to achieve the 3rd goal. Therefore, we made 5 pieces of recommendations targeting on improving the quality of MinuteClinic. We firstly recommend Larry to hire not only doctors but also nutritionists in side

MiniuteClinics. We believe people are paying more attention to their lifestyle nowadays so they have a general incentive to ask for nutritional advices in MinuteClinics. We also believe that nutritional advices contribute to people’s long-term health and therefore improve the quality of health care as a result. We secondly recommend Larry to sell more vegetables in CVS stores. This has a synergy effect with our first recommendation because as people taking more nutritional advices, demand for buying vegetables will be generated. We thirdly recommend Larry to ask customers to complete a survey before meeting a doctor if they want. This would give doctors more information, and save diagnose time, which indirectly improve the quality of health care. We fourthly recommend Larry to give discount on drugs based on customer health check result improvement such as blood pressure level. This would give customers an incentive to improve their own health. We lastly recommend Larry to enhance information sharing between MinuteClinic and patients’ personal doctors. This would give a check and balance to minute clinic and provide better health care through collaborations among different doctors. 5-2-3-3 The Truth May Hurt, But It Also Heals

Our group shared a result of case study about Aaron Bell and his company, AdRoll. He is a great leader who specializes in three skills related to leadership. He is good at encouraging employees’ heart, fostering their collaboration and showing the model of works. Also I learned each of these skills is not effective with just that. In fact, one skill is related to another skill and Aaron Bell specializes in most closely related skills. This means Aaron Bell can make groups work in the most efficient way. These learnings from case study about Aaron Bell is very helpful for me because according to my result of Strength Quest which evaluates one’s strengths as a leader, I am also good at encouraging the heart and fostering collaboration and a leader such as him is my ideal leader who can make comfortable workspace where employees work pleasantly and actively. So if I follow learnings from him, I will be able to come up to my ideal leader, I think.

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5-3 A leadership and Innovation Case Study: The Belt Line Impact

As you walk along the Beltline, you will find a statue of modern art, tranquil restaurants, a person running, a younger riding bicycle, and a family walking with a dog. Beltline is the name of a 35-km road surrounding downtown Atlanta. Origin of Beltline was one master’s thesis in

1999. Ryan Gravel grew up in Georgia and entered Georgia Institution of Technology. He majored in architecture and studied in France when he was senior. And his experience in Paris led to his idea of Beltline. Through his experience and curiosity towards human society, he found that life in Atlanta was more isolated than social commutes like Paris. Then, he took leadership in order to provide more greening facilities and parks and execute walk-run-bike concept. Eventually his ideas were accepted by citizens, and not only city but also NPOs and the main train MARTA started to support it. Currently the project has become one of the largest urban project in the United State, involving more than 5 million people for completion in 2030. In an activity of this program, we walked in Beltline and had for lunch at Ponce City

Market which has been reinvented as a community hub gathering shops and restaurants. I felt that Beltline has already deeply penetrated people's lives, and Atlanta is a constantly challenging city. It was the best day in Atlanta when with my friends from GATech and Titech, I went cycling in Beltline and the park Meadow on the free day. 1)Beltline, 2) Ponce City Market (Below is called PCM), 3) the fancy candy shop in PCM, 4) the park Meadow where Atlanta Botanical Garden and Lake Clara Meer are located, 5) Bicycle which you can hire by the hour on the 1st floor of PCM, 6) a cheese hamburger in PCM

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5-4 2017 InVenture Prize Finals 5-4-1 Overview

InVenture Prize is an interdisciplinary innovation competition open to all undergraduate students and recent graduates of the Georgia Institute of Technology. And the event is held at a great studio (Figure. 5-4-1). Created in 2009 and organized by Georgia Tech faculty, the competition brings together student innovators from all academic backgrounds across campus in an effort to foster creativity, invention, and entrepreneurship. Partnered with Georgia Public Broadcasting, the InVenture Prize transforms an ordinary invention contest into an electrifying televised competition. The first-place winning team receives $20,000, and the second-place winner or winning team receives $10,000. The winners will receive a free U.S. patent filing by Georgia Tech's Office of Technology Licensing, valued at approximately $20,000, and automatic acceptance into a Georgia Tech business creation and innovation program.

Fig. 5-4-1 the event place

6-4-2 Results

The team who won the first prize was Cautry Guard, a safer electrocautery device. And it eliminates any chance of injury caused by electrocautery devices. The 2nd prize

was InternBlitz which is the common application for internships.

6-4-3 Remarks

I was surprised by the enthusiasm of both the university and students at GAT for

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this competition. GAT invests more than $ 35,000 to winners. Furthermore they give the winners a free U.S. patent filing and automatic acceptance into a Georgia Tech business creation and innovation program. On the other hand, when finalist shows up on the stage, students on the gallery give enthusiastic yell to them. Products presented were not exceptional but their business plan and presentation were great. That means, I think, they know importance of output in learning technology not only input. Making a product for a competition should be helpful for students to learn not only technology but also leadership because the process for winning a competition require team-working. If Tokyo Tech held invention competition, I believe, it will bring successful results.

5-5 World of Coca-Cola

On day 5, we visited World of Coca-Cola located in Downtown. World of Coca-Cola is the museum of Coca-Cola that shows its history, memorial goods and worldwide products by various ways such as display, games and movies. Thanks for these contents and its popularity, it is one of the most famous sightseeing spots in Atlanta visited by over 23 million people from about 80 countries in the world.

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When we entered the museum, at first, we got free Coca-Cola. Then, a funny entertaining guide introduced about the world of Coca-Cola in a hall surrounded by Coca-Cola goods. And we were leaded in a theater and we enjoyed the special promotion movie of Coca-Cola. All these introduction excited us well enough to be absorbed in the “World of Coca-Cola”. After we finished watching the

movie, we had free time to go around. There is a big entrance connected to each exhibition, for example, history, memorial goods, factory and the secret of Coke’s formula exhibition. Also, there were some experience-based amusements. At the 4D theater, we could learn the secret of Coke’s formula with heavily shaking seats and at a tasting booth, we could taste over 100 kinds of Coca-Cola products from all over the world. If you visit World of Coca-Cola, you will be fully inspired by its attraction and a fan of Coca-Cola!

5-6 Center of Civil and Human Rights

Atlanta was in the center of the historical civil rights movement. It is a city of American south with a large African American population. It is also the place where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was born and grew up. On day 5 of our program, after drinking a ton of Coca-Cola in the morning, we visited the Center for Civil & Human Rights.

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We began our pilgrimage by visiting a hall that exhibits a large collection of Dr. King’s documents such as his personal correspondents, and his essays in collage. Through these personal documents we had a better understanding of Dr. King’s character and the philosophy he believed in from a different angle. Then we visited

the main hall of the museum. The narrative starts from the history of segregation. We were stunned after learning that before 1960s, which is not far from now, many American southern states were segregated. African Americans were forced to sit on the back of the bus. Many facilities such as bathrooms and restaurants were white only. Black children could not go to the same school as the white children.

Montgomery bus boycott was the

tipping point of the black oppression under segregation. It happened when Rosa Parks, an African American woman refused to sit on the back of the bus bravely and got arrested. A series of protests followed Montgomery bus boycott throughout the

whole United States. We saw freedom riders taking the segregated bus across the American south; we saw protestors sitting in the white only restaurants silently; we

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saw the March on Washington where Dr. King delivered his most famous speech: ‘I Have a Dream’. During these protests many people stood bravely against white mobs.

Some of them were beaten. Some of them even gave their lives for the cause. However, most of them did not fight back because non-violent civil disobedience was their leader Dr. King’s core philosophy and vision. As a result, many anti-segregation legislations were successfully passed. After visiting the main hall, we also saw some exhibits on other human rights struggles and movements and their leaders at another hall.

Our visit to the Center for Civil &

Human Rights was an emotional journey for me personally. It was heart breaking to see the struggles of the African Americans and protestors beaten up for their pursuit of the basic human rights. It was even more heart breaking when I learnt Dr. King’s body was carried by a wagon with 2 mules after his assassination. ‘How could such a great man going to heaven in such a humble way?’ I thought. Then I learnt a wagon with 2 mules was a symbol for the black rural poverty. Dr. King was such a great man that even after he died, his message remain. We were all inspired to become a leader as he was in the future.

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5-7 CNN 5-7-1 What is CNN?

CNN (Cable News Network) was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel. The head office is located in Atlanta and CNN broadcasts throughout the United States through CNN Domestic. CNN Domestic is watched over 100 million households, and in Japan you can see news with Japanese translation through CNN Japan In the United States ABC, CBS, NBC are called the three largest television stations, but the size of CNN is next to them. In addition, it operates CNN.com (www.cnn.com) as well as live news, as news media, and operates local media independently for each country. Japanese news media can be seen from CNN.co.jp (www.cnn.co.jp), it is possible to see foreign news from the American perspective in Japanese. CNN10 also broadcasts news for 10 minutes every day for middle and high school students in the US. You can watch CNN 10 for free. Content is also well organized for junior high and high school students, and scripts are also open to the public so it is best for English learning. Since broadcasting has also been done from the CNN head office, I recommend you to watch it before going to Atlanta.

5-7-2 Headquarters building of CNN

The headquarters building is located in 190 Marietta St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303. In this program, we stayed at the hotel one minute walk from Five Points station. From the hotel, we can go there about 10 minutes on foot. I think that you can arrive within 5 minutes by using Uber. Within walking distance there are many tourist attractions such as Central Olympic Park, World of Coca Cola, Center for Civil and Human Rights, Georgia Aquarium. At the headquarters building of CNN, you can take a tour inside the company as described later.

5-7-3 Tour of CNN

If you are interested in CNN. I strongly recommend to participate in CNN tour. It is so much fun and you can see many types of studios. You can buy ticket in the online store with credit. Price of adult ticket is $16.28. Although we could buy ticket on previous day of the tour, I recommend you to buy ticket a week before.

Picture of headquarters of CNN

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6 Other 6-1 Foods

As you may know, the volume and price of dishes in the U.S. is bigger and higher than that in Japan. Though some dishes are comparatively cheap, the volume of them is often not enough and if you want to get full, you have to pay much. Also, when you order hamburger, there are usually a large amount of French fries as a side dish. (As you can see in the two pictures.) There were some restaurants where you can eat Japanese food and I once ate a dish named “Teriyaki”. (As you can see in the lower picture) It was different from what I expected. The texture of rice was a little sticky and the taste was not so good. So, I don’t recommend you to eat Japanese food in Atlanta.

↑cheeseburger with French fries

and orange juice (At Varsity)

↑meat loaf sandwich with French fries (At HENRY’S)

↑American version of Teriyaki dish

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6-2 Town

Atlanta is mostly divided into three areas; Downtown, Midtown and Buckhead. I will introduce about the state of the three areas. ・Downtown Downtown is the area surrounding Five Points Station which is the center station of MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority), the traffic network in Atlanta. (You can see the map of MARTA below.) Most of the sightseeing spots of Atlanta,such as CNN Center, World of Coca Cola are in Downtown area. We stayed at a hotel very near to the Five Points Station. The atmosphere around the hotel looked dangerous. Sometimes we were talked to by strangers when walking around the hotel. You shouldn’t walk around the Five Points Station late at night.

↑scenery from the hotel the electric signboard was shining all the day that it was too bright at night ・Midtown Midtown is the area surrounding Midtown Station. The nearest station of Georgia Tech is North Avenue Station or Midtown Station. There is a shopping market named Ponce City Market. It is about forty minutes-walk from Georgia Tech. Some of us did cycling from Ponce City Market and went to Historic Fourth Ward Park. The park was big and beautiful. I could breathe fresh air while being in urban area.

↓map of MARTA

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↑Georgia Tech↑

↑Ponce City Market ↑pond in Historic Fourth Ward Park ・Buckhead Buckhead is the area around Buckhead Station and Lenox Station. There are two big shopping mall, Lenox Square and Philipps Plaza. Some of us went shopping to Lenox Square.

←Lenox Square

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6-3 Other

The strongest impression I had about Atlanta during the program is that people in Atlanta were cheerful. One morning, when I was eating breakfast in dining hall, some hall-staffs suddenly started singing or dancing, and same thing happened almost every morning. I was very surprised to see that. I think the cheeriness of the people is because the population of African-American people is about sixty percent of that in Atlanta and the percentage is high in Downtown area especially, and the character of African-American people is said to be very cheerful.

7 Individual Feedback

This short-term leadership program in Atlanta and Georgia Institute of Technology is so meaningful and pretty impressive experience, and which will be helpful for my future work life. In detail, what I learnt from this program including 3 parts: 1. For one of the person born and grow up in the environment of Asia, I am so

impressive by the American people who are such open minded and could easily greeting with all the person in hotel, in supermarket and so on, which feel so warm and friendly. In Asian country, like Japan and China, we are so shy and difficult to be so relaxed, but for my opinion, we could be more open in this kind aspect, and make our relationship more close each other and enjoyable in our life. Furthermore, in US, you could feel the enthusiasm form all kinds of the people, the professors try their best to show the knowledge as much fantastic as possible to attract the students, and the students are so insolvable in their classes, and in Georgia Tech., the students worked so hard and you could feel the enthusiasm they have for the things they do. It impaired me a lot to make myself enjoyable for my recent life and for my future work.

2. During the program, we did a lot of teamwork and did some leadership exercise, we make me understand the leadership much deeper. As one of the person in this society, one of the teammate in a team, it is the same, we have to know ourselves the best and then try to understand others, before you want together and control the others, it is better to control ourselves first. We have to know that the leader who leave the team is just a person, the truth is as a leader, our task is not try to change and control others, but try to encourage all the people work together and try to finish the task the get the optimal solution for the problem.

3. The most important change for my mind is that even though there are totally different work system and culture between US and Japan, also the US and China.

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But it is not necessary to say that which culture or leadership system is better than the others. We have to accept the difference, as each of the system is format during a long time and based on the different culture background. The way that we could do better during the process of international business is try our best to understand the different and respect for the difference.

Gaoqi Wang

“What is leadership?” This was my question that I had before joining this program. I had no answer toward it at that time. However, through this program, I’ve figured out that there is no answer toward it. That doesn’t mean I haven’t learned it. That means it depends on the situation where its context is high or low, the strength of its people and hierarchical or egalitarian. There are pros and cons in each leadership whenever you take care of it. Therefore, I think, the important thing is firstly to know oneself: what strength I you have, which context you prefer, egalitarian or hierarchical? , and so on. Then, you can manage yourself. Second is to know other and its surrounding. And then, you will know how to manage others. Lastly, you can demonstrate your own leadership. In addition, I’ve gotten to recognize my strength and leadership type based on Gallup

and LPI. Now those results have given me to step into the first step to gain my own leadership and I am going to manage myself based on the results with “Restorative” and “Challenge the Process” Even though now I am not able to proudly say I obtain my leadership, since I will start working in a company which capitalizes on the diversity of its people, I am confident the experience through this program is meaningful for me.

Tatsushi Nishimoto

‘A leader without a group is just a person.’ This is what we wrote on the white board during the last session of this program. This sentence nicely concluded what I learnt from this program. It was so resonating when we were on the rope course. As a man who has been avoiding height as much as possible, when I first set foot on the wire, the fear was so overwhelming. I was not sure if I can finish the course even after the instructors repeatedly telling me otherwise.

As I hesitated to move forward, the first thing I heard was JP saying ‘You can put your hand on my shoulder.’ I did that immediately. The second thing I realized was

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Prof. Ota putting her hand on my shoulder from behind and Yue putting her hand on my shoulder from my left. Suddenly, I felt so stable even though I was just standing on a narrow wire, because I had support from 3 directions. At the same time, JP, Prof. Ota and Yue got support from me and other teammates as well.

We moved forward slowly but steadily. We communicated about how we are going to pass each barrier effectively. We also encouraged each other’s heart by saying ‘good job’ and celebrating small wins. Although I could not remove fear from myself entirely, I definitely had confidence that we could manage to finish this challenge together.

In one scenario, in order to pass the challenge, two people in the group must blindfold themselves. I cannot believe that I volunteered. After what we have been through before, I completely trusted them and I felt rather relaxed during that scenario.

After a near 3-hour adventure, we finally finished the whole challenge. I felt so happy

and empowered. Although even today, I do not believe that I can finish the course again by myself. But I definitely want to do it again with my group.

The rope course is not the only amazing thing I experienced during this ten-day

program. I also learnt essential components of leadership; learnt leadership under different cultural contexts; discovered my individual strengths; broadened my knowledge on civil rights movement and successful Atlanta based companies. Most important of all, I built a strong bond with people from both Tokyo Tech and Georgia Tech. We were talking about leadership and cultural differences during the drinking party at the hotel. Being able to have fun with such topics in a drinking party is purely amazing.

Zhengqi Zhu

My two biggest discoveries in this program are following: First of all, the finding

about leadership was that there are many kinds of leaders. It means the answer to the question "what is leadership?" is not only one. We human have a very diverse personality. Somebody are more enthusiastic about mechanical engineering, while somebody is better at communication with people. It doesn't mean the former is bad at communication and the latter has no scientific talent. This is just a difference, but at the same time the most important thing for our society’s diversity. Due to our

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different strengths, many intellectual inventions have enriched our lives, and new collaboration were activated everywhere. In the case of a career, even if you are not a leader in a group or project, you can demonstrate and exploit your own leadership related to your strengths. After graduating from Tokyo Institution of Technology, I will start working for a company. So as a member of company, I would like to refine my leadership and return it to society anytime. Secondly, the long and distressing history in Southern America was the most

impressive and deeply moving for me. Through studying abroad and travelling before this program, I could have experienced the developed and modern aspect of the United State. However, American freedom and diversity are born of countless painful experiences and unrelenting efforts in the past. Surprisingly, the Civil War and the civil rights movement were recent events several hundred years ago, and many human rights issues still spread all over the world. I haven’t had much opportunity to touch it in my usual life, but this program made me strongly interested in history and social problems. I would continue to be aware of this in the future as a part of society.

1) Peachtree which Atlanta is famous for, 2) Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthplace, 3) King and his wife Coretta Scott King’s grave in Sweet Auburn

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First I really appreciate that I could participate in this leadership program. This program gave me a chance to better know more about my strength, learn scientific approach to develop leadership and practice leadership through many cross-culture activities. We took the strength quest and got an individual feedback, which helps us know more

about what kind of leader characters we have and ourselves. The results give me a new insight on what kind of leader I should and I can be. At the leadership workshop, we had a lot of discussions about cross-culture leadership.

Which helped me understand leadership could be different under different culture. In addition in the session of Individual Leadership Assessment and Training, I had a better understand my strength and how I could make the best of my strength to manage myself, and lead the group. In addition, this program gave me many chances to practice the leadership theory.

Such as, we visit the World of Coca-Cola, which is one of the leading companies in the food industry. As Coca-Cola enjoys popularity all over the world, it is very important to use universal value to manage and lead the branch companies all over the world. We also had a chance to participate the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize Finals Event where we saw how GT students change their ideas into reality. Most importantly, we took the Georgia Tech Leadership Challenge Course, which is an innovative educational lab designed to explore, elevate and expand human potential by converting team and leadership theory into action. The most memorable moment in this leadership program is on the day we took

campus Recreation-Leadership Challenge Course. After climbing on the first platform, we had to walk on a tight rope in order to reach the second platform. At that moment, I was a little hesitate and scared, but after seeing my teammates made their first steps, I was encouraged by them. At the same time they model the way for me. I made the very first step on tightrope, that moment; it seems not that difficult or scary. The moment I feel, I underestimated how other group members could encourage, inspire and enable me to act. I have learnt that leadership is more about getting things done by all members.

Yue Mio

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Through this program, I could get precious experiences. After taking leadership program, I could know two big things. First is importance of understanding cultural differences. At first, I don’t know the reasons why I have to take leadership program not in Japan but in US. But after taking the class, I found out the reason. When you are in Japan, most people have the same culture, so we do not need to care about cultural differences. Also, as expressed in the Japanese saying " A nail that stands will be hammered down. (出る杭は打たれ

る)", Japanese tend to dislike situations such as something is jumping out. Therefore, Japanese tend to become a generalist. In contrast, in the United State, various ethnic groups gather and live. For this reason, people's ways to approach things and areas of specialty are also diverse. In such circumstances, American tends to focus on nurturing specialists rather than developing generalists. With this program, I was able to learn about leadership in each environment through discussion with the students of the Georgia Tech. If the culture of each country is different as mentioned above, the meaning of leadership is changed. But what matters is that both leadership in Japan and leadership in the US have great things. Those who are planning to take this program may have the opportunity to lead a multinational team in the future. At that time, I thought that the ability to understand the various cultural backgrounds and differences of the way of thinking about leadership in each, which can be gained through this program has great power to achieve big goals. Second is importance of knowing myself. As you know, Japanese tend to focus on not advantages but faults of themselves. And it often leads to lose their confidence. However, in the program, you can know advantages of yourself through StrengthQuest. It makes your strengths clear and give you tips of the way to develop your strength. Of course, only taking this test does not have effect. It is not until you discuss your strength with your peers and teachers, you can find out concrete image of what you can do and what you should develop. And probably what you will learn in the program influence whole your life greatly. I think that there are many people who have little confident in themselves, including me, but even those who like it will certainly have strengths. I thought that considering your own strengths over time and thinking deeply would show great power in various aspects. Although it may be a bit harder than other short-term studies, what you can learn is so great. I recommend you strongly to participate the program by all means.

Shun Iwase

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During this program, I learned many things about how to exert leadership. I want to talk about three things especially. First thing is that you should be confident of yourself to be a good leader. When we

participated in a lecture for Georgia Tech students about giving and receiving feedback, the students had their strong opinions and were doing discussion actively by talking a lot. I admired their attitude. Sometimes I feel nervous when I tell my opinion to other people, so I think I should overcome my weakness by speaking out a lot like the students however any small opinion. Second thing is that it is important to understand the culture of other countries. The

recognition of people about leadership is different by each country. As it is getting the age of globalization, I will have many chances to work with people from all over the world, and I think I need to understand the working style of others. Third thing is that you should understand your strength and know the way of making

use of the strength to leadership. I took a personality assessment test called Gallup Strength’s Quest and recognized what my strength was. I had a class of individual leadership assessment and training. In that class, I shared the strength with other people, and I could learn how to utilize the strength of mine and others to exert leadership when working in a group. There will be many cases in the future where I should exert leadership, for example

when belonging to a laboratory or when working in a company, and I want to make use of my experience of participating in this program to those cases. At the end, I really appreciate all the people who involved in this program for giving

me a very great experience. Junki Oyama

I learned mainly two things from this program related to leadership. One is about knowing myself well and the other is about how to adapt it to my works effectively. First, about knowing myself well, I learned that I am a person as I expected. Though

it seems to be natural and boring as often said that you know yourself the best, adapting my features to the five components of leadership and making it visible clearly is helpful for me because I’ve never thought about myself deeply and never thought that I am an appropriate person to be a leader. Also, thanks for visualization, I can imagine the way to be a great leader and notice that the way, in fact, is not so difficult. I will write about it in the next paragraph.

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Second, about how to adapt it to my works effectively, I learned that I should improve my strengths and acquire only one or two small strengths to be a leader. After I had finished my Strength Quest, which is like a questionnaire about myself, I found my strengths including skills of harmony, adaptability, maximizer or so. It clearly shows I am good at encouraging others’ heart and enabling others to act. Actually, it is the model of ideal leaders for me because I like such leaders who are good at making environment where group members can work from their heart and want to be. It is enough to make my group peaceful and work effectively, but it is not enough to make my group competitive and successful. Then, how can I make my group stronger? It is easier to answer than before I noticed the components of great leaders that I should choose sub-leaders for their appropriate position or role considering their special skills. This skill is explained as individualization in Strength Quest. If I do so, though members are not perfect leaders individually, my group will be able to work like a perfect leader who has all the five components of a great leader as a whole. I think there has never been a perfect leader in the world, but there has been various

kinds of leaders who have some great strengths and adapt it to their works very well. It is OK that I cannot be a perfect leader but I must have some brilliant gifts, which are attained by polishing my skills already given. That’ all I learned in this program.

Naoko Koyama

Throughout this program, I learned several things. First, it is very important to understand different culture. In the workshops, we discussed different culture and leaderships. It would be very difficult to understand the difference, but I think just knowing them won’t surprise you when you meet someone from different culture acting differently from the way you do. Through listening to presentations and discussions, I learned the difference according to the region or country. I can use these knowledge when I work together with people around the world. No matter how long it might take, I need to keep asking those from other countries what they think directly so that I can understand them better and build a good relationship. Second, I need to speak up more. Sometimes, even if I had ideas in my head, I don’t

say it out because I am afraid I might be wrong. But I saw a lot of Tokyo Tech students trying their best to express themselves. I was very impressed. For the first few days, I wasn’t able to speak much. But I thought I should try my best because the time is limited. If I am not able to speak up in front of small group, I probably won’t be able

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to speak in front of a lot of people when I became a leader someday. Also, when I attended the leadership class, I saw Georgia Tech students leading the conversation. I was surprised that they did it very well. They were asking questions about the topic and our reactions. I was also impressed by their reactions during the class. They were very passionate and I think leadership in small groups is important to lead a larger group discussions. Third, I learned my strength in leadership. Before I did the survey, I always looked at weakness and felt pressure to fix them. Of course, knowing the weakness is important too, but knowing strength makes me feel more confident. And these strength are different each person. There are some who have several characteristics in common, but others have none. In order to lead a group of people, I need to know their personality. Now that I know my strength, I can use them in the future for sure. I am really thankful that I was able to join this program and all the members who went together and met there. This experience is invaluable and will be my treasure.

Miki Mori