Phil Knight (NIKE)

Phil Knight was born in 1938. He is an American business magnate and the co-founder of Nike. On a trip around the world he discovered the Tiger-brand running shoes. He was so impressed by tquality and low cost and called Mr. Onitsuka, the head of Tiger-brand running shoes, who agreed to meet with him. At the end, Knight had secured Tiger distribution rights for the western United States, and previously served as the chief executive officer of Nike. Phil Knight started his career with selling Japanese Sneakers out of his car boot. But after 40 years his company got to a 12,3 billion sports conglomerate. During the 1980s and the 1990s he changed the rules of the games for sport marketing and turned sports gear into a fashion statement. 
Knight, who describes his own management style as “selectively hands-on”, knows when to be involved in decisions and the work of his staff and when to give space. 
This style takes confidence in yourself and faith in your people. You have to let your employees make their own decisions and mistakes. If you never give them that abililty you might as well be doing their job. Know what is going on and coach your team through processes but don't do it for them. Give them suggestions but let them tailor it to their liking. This is the best type of manager.

German Manager Rene Obermann

Rene Obermann was born on 5^th March 1963 in Duesseldorf. He grew up in Neuss where his grandfather ran a small printing craftsmanship. After his Abitur he did  a business trainee-ship at BMW AG in Munich.

After that he wanted to study economics at the University of Muenster. To improve his financial situation he founded a small company called ABC Telekom with which he earned 1 million Mark in the first year. 

He quit his studies, never finished them and sold the company. Then he started to work for the Deutsche Telekom AG.
In 2006 he moved to the top of the management and became the youngest leader of a German top 30 company.

He undertook cost cuts and made overseas investment which is why he is said to be an innovative manager.

Furthermore he has been the Vice President of the German industry association BITKOM since 2007.

He stepped down from the Deutsche Telekom at the end of year 2013 and then changed to the Dutch cable TV operator Ziggo NV at the beginning of 2014.

He doesn’t hesitate to make necessary but unpopular decisions and he is said to be ambitious, determined, straightforward and qualified.
He himself said that a good manager has to work hard, be collaborative, control his business and have good social skills. Besides he is of the opinion that those who are in charge should deal with the criticism that might arise.

 

Eike Batista

Eike Fuhrken Batista da Silva is a Brazilian business manager who made a fortune working with mining and oil and gas exploration. Actually, he is the CEO of EBX Group that includes five companies on the BM&F BOVESPA, stock exchange located at Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Batista started elementary school in Brazil and moved with his family to Europe when he was a teenager. He learned self-esteem and discipline, attributes he considers crucial to his formation as an entrepreneur. In 1974, he began to study metallurgical engineering in Germany and in early the 1980s he returned to Brazil and focused his attention on the gold and diamond trades.

When he was 23 years old, he started a gold trading company, that a year and a half later had earned $6 million. With his entrepreneurial instinct and talent, he implement the first mechanized alluvial gold mining plant in the Amazon and when he was 29 years old, he became CEO of TVX Gold. From 1980 to 2000, he created $20 billion in value with the operation of eight gold mines in Brazil and Canada and a silver mine in Chile. Between 1991 and 1996, the value of his company more than tripled. At the end of 2010, Batista was ranked as the 58th most powerful person in the world. In 2012, Batista had a net worth of $30 billion, becoming a seventh wealthiest person in the world and the richest in Brazil and South America.

Globalisation is good

    Globalization integrates trade, technology and the mobile factors of production like labour and capital.

    In my opinion, globalization is quite a good thing for humans. Because of it, people around the world are more connected to each other than ever before. And goods and services produced in one part of the world are increasingly available in all parts of the world. It makes our life more convenient.

    In education, with numerous educational institutions around the world, people can move out from the home country for better opportunities elsewhere. Thus, integrating with different cultures, meeting and learning from various people through the medium of education is all due to globalization. Developing countries and labor-intensive countries have benefited the most. In fact, many schools in China open an international class. Students in this class will learn an international course. And the school try to let the students in this class lead the same life as the foreign students, so the students will have western-style food and wear western-style clothes.

    These years, information technology plays an important role in human's life. Because of globalization,people get more closer than before. Every information can be spread so quickly to everywhere in the world.Circulation of information is no longer a tedious task, and can happen in seconds. The internet has changed the global economy a lot, thereby providing direct access to information and products. For example, people from different countries can communicate with each other by Twitter, Facebook and so on. They don't need to write letters, or wait the letters from his friends for a long time.

   On the other way,globalization has brought some problems, such as loss of culture,health issues and the gap between rich and poor.

    In real life, globalization has brought new epidemic threats and challenges.HIV/AIDS is a good example. People who have this disease will be in danger. This disease is from Africa,and it is spread quickly to the other countries because of the globalization. Food may also take an disease from one country to another country, because the safety regulations and the standards of food preparation are different in different countries.

    Globalization may lead to more environmental problems. A company may want to build factories in other countries because environmental laws are not as strict as they are at home. Poor countries in the Third World may have to cut down more trees so that they can sell wood to richer countries. Like Brazil,many trees are cut down by the companies from other countries. And the tropical rain forests are disappearing.

    In conclusion,i want to say that globalization is inevitable and we must urge individuals, companies and governments to use a more balanced approach by taking the appropriate steps to deal with matters relating to the financial or economical gains verses the social, political or ecological concerns of the world. 

    In my opinion,although globalization may bring some troubles to us, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

Globalisation is Good - Jake

What is globalisation? According to ‘Wikipedia’ on the website, “Globalisation is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture”. Now, the world becomes more international in markets, the industries and cultures. So globalisation is the most important topic in the world. People all over the world are more influenced and connected to each other than ever before.

What do people want to receive from globalisation? Globalisation has many advantages. First, I want to talk about free trading, because my major is international trade. Globalisation removes trade barriers. For example, when international companies trade each other, they impose taxes for products and they are restricted by quantitative restrictions. These situations are called as trade barriers, so removing those is very important to trade. When the companies in different nations don’t face any barriers, they can engage in a free trading and make a big profit. One example of the a trading is NAFTA, which allows American, Canada and Mexico to trade each other without any restriction. The free trading has lots of benefits for economies and markets. One example is the price competition. The companies compete with each other freely to attract consumers, so they produce well-made and cheap products in order to survive in the market. As a result, the consumers can buy well-made and cheap goods and The companies who survive to the last can make a big profit.

Another benefit of globalisation is connection to foreign countries such as travelling and working. Nowadays, many people enjoy travelling all over the world. You can travel anywhere you want except dangerous countries. When you enter into another country, you won’t meet any problem. Travelling to another country also contribute to the development of the country as a tourism industry. Next, let's talk about working. Many companies can hire workers in foreign countries to work. America, Australia and Korea are good examples for that. Nowadays, many people of developing countries go to these countries and work, not only because the labor markets of developed countries need more workers but because the labor markets of developing counties are very bad.

But there are disadvantages of globalisation. One of the disadvantages is a loss of cultural identities. While globalisation is proceeding quickly, cultural identites have disappeared or been mixed with others. Especially, Western ideas always invade Eastern ideas. If we can't stop that, each country will be indistinctive and featureless after all.

I think that globalization makes the world better than ever before. But equally, there are those who don't. For better or worse, we can't stop globalisation. So, what should we do? We should keep a check on its process and  make up for its disadvantages. This is all we need to do.

Z Generation?! – The World Wide Nation - Marcel

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Life in Auckland

Hello everyone (:

                I have stayed in Auckland nearly 5 weeks. I’m going to tell you guys about my experience in Auckland. First the weather here is terrible. It usually rain and I don’t have an umbrella so I always get wet. In addition the weather here is colder than Thailand so I have to wear the warm things that make me uncomfortable.

               
                Entertainment hotspot here are all around Queen Street. There have shopping mall, cinema, restaurants, etc. Shopping centres here are poor because they are very small and price of everything is expensive. Restaurant here are acceptable. There are so many nationality foods.  Price is expensive but you will get a very big dish that can make you full. One thing I’m very wonder is why Auckland has so many sushi shop?It's strange because you will see sushi shop where're you go.
                About public transportation I think it is crummy. I've to waited at bus stop everyday. For me it is windy and cold outside. And bus price here is pricey. Bus fare from my home to school is around 3 dollar for single trip so that I've to pay 6 dollar for bus fare everyday. It is terrible.
                Last week I've been to Rotorua and Taupo. It was mind-blowing experience for me. I love view from mountain that i can see the city by lake. I've never seen something like this before. It was amazing. I went to Polynesian spy in Rotorua. It was awesome.

                New Zealand has a high cost of living however I have really had a good time here. See you next time my friends.