Lesson 9

I love reading Good to Great. I have read a lot of it for another class. It is an extremely information packed book. It focuses a lot on first who then what. I watched a video from a man a while ago that focused on that specific point. I can't exactly remember if it is the author or someone close to the writing of that book that was in the video, but he repeated himself many many times saying "first who then what". Most of the time we focus on the problem we need to solve and not so much the people that could make a great team to solve whatever problem. More of what we read this week was about the hiring process. I felt as though I was getting a sneak peak into the interview process. Having applied for many internships, it was interesting to be thinking about it from the other side of the table. As the interviewee, you aren't so much thinking about them not asking the right questions, or not making a good impression on you. Also, we watched a video about Matt Stewart. He made some interesting points about not focusing on the money or profits of your idea. Get the focus on what you want to do and it will make money. He said that all of his failures were because he had an idea that he wanted to make money off of. If you love what you do and can find people with similar passions in your related area you can do great things and the money will come, but don't let it be about the money.

This week was tough for the $100 challenge. I had another project for another class that took up a lot of my time. We were doing a mock-run of a consignment store to happen in Rexburg. It went very well. We were able to sell over $350 worth of clothes. We did have someone on our ward facebook group reach out to us for babysitting, so that was a nice switch for us. That appointment is to happen this week. Maybe I should have combined my ideas from the other class with that business to the one for this class. It went so well that maybe I should have done that.