As I always know, I’m an introverted person. No matter how hard I pretend to be talkative with people, deep in my heart, it only makes feel tired and want to stay further away from them. I believe every introverted person was more or less told that he or she should converse more with others and try to show themselves. Because that is the thing I have been telling since I could speak. Both my parents and I thought this is an encouragement that could help me better, being introverted is surely regarded as a weakness by everyone include me! Things are getting harder for me since I enrolled in Sauder, this is a place where everyone seems confident and fearless to give a speech in front of hundreds of people except me, also in group working, I was always the last who give my own opinion. That frightened me every day and I keep asking myself is Sauder a right place for me, am I belong here? I felt pathetic and even shameful for being an introvert myself.

And then comes that ob class, which Wayne played TED talk show to us, the name of that show is the power of introverts. The power? Introverts have any power themselves? That shocked me. Susan, the speaker clarified that introverts should not be shameful for being themselves, there’s actually something that they could do better than extroverts. She told the advantages of most of introverts, include work on their own, think independently and carefully doing things. Those are things I never thought about, I always looked on the bad sides of being introverts. At that point, I finally realized maybe I should accept myself and stop convert myself in a way that I don’t like at all.

Since then, I began not to worry about my introversion every day at night. Since I now don’t regard being introvert as a weakness of me, I’m more confident than before, I could look into other’s eyes when talking. It’s amazing that accepting my introversion actually makes me more extroverted. In group working, I believe it’s essential to find your role in it, I’m still looking for it but I believe it won’t take long.

Certainly, learning how to work with other is still important, but facing who you truly are is even more important. That is one of the best class I ever had.

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YAMAHA is well-known as a musical instruments manufacturer, has a history of nearly 150 years. However, what most of people might not have known is that Yamaha is also a leading producer of audio/visual product, semiconductors and other computer related products, sporting goods, home appliances and furniture, specialty metals, machine tools, and industrial robots. Although those industries look irrelevant and totally different from each other, Yamaha still did very well in the past one century and even became dominator in some areas. For a company first start with musical instruments production, how can Yamaha set foot in so many irrelevant areas while kept successful. After research into Yamaha’s development till today, I believe its success has a crucial relation with its business culture.

We learned organizational culture in the study of organizational behavior in chapter 10, which is defined as a system of shared meaning held by members that distinguishes the organization from other organizations. Organizational culture has plenty of functions, what makes Yamaha most unique in the world is its boundary-defining role which creates distinction between one organization and others.

Usually, a company’s culture can be obtained from its slogan, philosophy and objectives. Yamaha’s corporate philosophy is “providing excellence in our products and services; continuous efforts to expand our existing market and create new markets; enhancement of research and development on a long range perspective; pursuit of further globalization of Yamaha’s business; fostering positive growth through diversification….” Their objective is to contribute to the enrichment of the quality of lives for people around the world. Hence, it’s much easier to understand why Yamaha entered so many market while remain high quality of products and build a good reputation. Yamaha’s corporate culture encourages company to expand their existing market and create new market, and to achieve diversification in their products. Moreover, it doesn’t focus on the range of market only, Yamaha is more of a consumer-oriented company, so the quality of products and satisfaction of consumer is equally important. This is also reflected from its slogan, that enhancement of research and development on a long range perspective.

We can say that corporate culture has an essential impact on company, however, it is only part of the reason why Yamaha is so successful, the management and operation are things that makes objective come true.

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http://usa.yamaha.com/about_yamaha/corporate_information/