7th Global Context: The Final Journey

The Final Journey of my Global Context class.

This is the last reflection of the Global Context with Paul, and thank you for bringing me and my friend a duality of truth. The process of seeing truth is to step back and see the deeper layer of information that have shown in many media.

       With the presentation of my classmates bring up an interested topic to focus like will Africa stay with the same economic growth because the corruption within country or it will more forward because of the movement of city development and improve in technology. With the groups presented and what I have in mind were that Africa has greater change to stay under developing country if the corruption still occurred.
Moreover, the topic like Oil, India, Avaaz, Currency and many other are also interested to take in to consideration since these topics will improve how I see the world. Like reading books, there are many information that waiting for me to open and read but how many of them say the truth or try not to ben the truth for reader especially a politic and economic news.

      I will use what I learn in the class and applies in my business plan and my life. Because of this, I will see which product is good for this region, people, religion but not suit for other. History helps to understand the culture then the performance of people. Environment is a block that people move along inside, like ration, status, popularity, values that categorize people. If I can determined any of this variable that people rely on then I can use it to target them. Agin thank Paul for bringing a good lecture environment and helping me understand the subject.

   
  

The 6th Journal of Global Context

Dimension of environment

      In class, I learn to step back and dig down to the deep level using all the dimensions from the previous class; demographic, geographic, economic, political, historical, etc... but the last thing that I help me to understand the relationship is environment. 

Yin-Yang a true reflection of human, society, believe, everything that have two side or duality meaning. I know that in the light will have shadow, in bad people there are good behaviour, in the rich there are richer or without poor there aren't rich people. The sample way is one thing cannot live, happen, stay without another. Some people might say that the white and black inside the cycle is the same but if we include the black outline the black part will have more than the white part, which I also agree but in the context of today society. 

the outline part is our environment that keep us moving inside. We need to do thing according to religious, law, rule, believe, nation, and anything that block us. If I refer the black part is a bad behaviour I can see that today people and our society have a thicker outline than the past history. And the black dot on the white part have a bigger area. Since people think about themselves then people have less love between each other. For the good people who alway do good thing now they are changed. They will feel that someone will try to take something from them. They instead of giving now they try to give for a bigger gain.        

Therefore, if I, we, business, understand the environment or the block that people always move along then it can be a tool or an estimator for us to fine the way on goal achievement.  

Fifth journal Practice and mid term exam

        After the practice and the midterm exam I feel that "going deeper" skills of mine still need improvement. I did the exam exactly doing the practice however I relay on the same structure like how people have problem about communication, language, transportation, and so on. But I forget that the simple problem like Polish people also made the same recipe as the company. The label and the packaging of the product need to change like "lb" to "mg" and english to polish.I make assumptions of these problems that it is common and people known about it. This is like putting our perspective to other. As Paul taught me from the class and even the previous semester that as a marketer, we should not put our thought, feeling, understanding, or assumption that other will have the same thinking process. The dimension that i mention on the exam case are demographic, infrastructure, language&relationship, and little bit about the culture. The last bit of culture is very important because the culture tell marketer how to do business with the polish entrepreneurs. The polish people suffer from soviet war which make them hold a strong relationship. Thus, I loss mark from missing a section of answer --> History --> Culture --> Business oriented 

Then the week after exam I learn about corruption, bribe or not to bribe, that is the question?

As I came from a country that have a high level of corruption, I can say that bribery is interconnected with way of doing business. But it down not mean that doing business is alway need bribery. In class, I need to answer a question that ask I should bribe or not. First answer of mind is I will bribe because I want to keep my job and position which I thought that if my boss asks me to do it and I disobey this order he will fire me. According to the Canadian law, if you are a permanent resident of Canada get fired from work place, you still have income from an union or the government. But the country that I come from does not have this kind of support, or even have the income is not enough for living. However, after I step back and thing about it I can see that if I agree to bribe other company, I will lose my person value. I will be un trustful person and non-honest person. On the other hands, the company might test me for trustworthy because the bribing can cost company tons of problem since the worker work for his/her own interest instead of the company's goal. Moreover, since I start doing bribe for once the next time and the follow I will need to do it without refusing.                     

Thus, bribe or not bribe, I will need to consider about my own self-value. If I say no at first I already setup my personal protection, I am trustworthy, honest, and high value compare to those whom bribing. 

Doing business is like waling in maze path. It will reach the same exit, by walking inside or cheating walking outside, but different is time. In that long period of time, I can build my reputation, quality, train employee, better strategy, many thing can be improve, and the end reach the goal. Corruption will take least time to get the same goal the principal of the company is not strong for the future circumstance. Thus, for me I will choose to walk in the long path for a better future.