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A Great Blog

After receiving a B- on my first essay, I managed to receive A’s on my next two essays.
This will likely be the third.
Did someone say ‘Turkey’?
The prompt for my management class was…

Could you apply the Good to Great Model to CSUN? If you did what would you find?

My Good to Great model defines that everyone possesses the capabilities to become great, but only a few choose to do so. Before we can achieve greatness, we need to be better than good. We can distinguish how to be great by looking at what is good. “We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools” (Collins, page 1). I disagree with this statement because CSUN is “good” compared to “great” Ivy League schools. I believe that CSUN concentrates on solving their biggest problems such as budget cuts, and lack the energy and resources towards their biggest opportunities, whereas Harvard’s outlook distinguishes them towards greatness. Attending a good school does not bind me from becoming a great leader.

CSUN can become the best California State University. Therefore, I do not have to confide to its “good” values; instead, I can become a great leader by blending personal humility with professional will. “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice” (Collins, page 11). My circumstances at CSUN do not dictate whether I choose to be good or great. I choose those qualities for myself. “The transformation [is] a process of buildup followed by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action” (Collins, page 12). My breakthrough came six months earlier when I decided to pick up the Cross and follow [Jesus] daily. By following Jesus’s disciplined thoughts and actions, I, too, can possess great leadership.

The process of being good to great is a “human problem” more so than an institutionalized problem (Collins, page 16). There are many factors that determine an institution’s status; therefore, not every institution has the opportunity to be great; however, each individual’s “capability resides within them, perhaps buried or ignored, but there nonetheless” (Collins, page 37).

Attending CSUN is not a boundary that excludes me from becoming a level 5 executive. “Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless” (Collins, page 22). I am on the road to becoming a great leader; will I continue to follow it?

Works Cited

Collins, James C. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap–and Others Don’t. New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 2001. Print. *I recommend this book.

As much as I want to transition from good to great, I may get there, I may not.
However, Jesus never transitioned.
He was great from the beginning.

Ethics 101

Without sin, there would be no discussion about ethics.
Without mistakes, why mention ethics?

The corporate ladder looks risky to climb when you're at the bottom of a 1,300 feet skyscraper.
Your in front of the stairs; you better be in shape.
When you're climbing it, are you asking where is the top of this thing?
You don't want to go back down because wasted time and opportunity is written in your mind.
The elevator rings. The door opens. It's willing to take you all the way to the top.
All you have to do is get in.
You discover a briefcase, and you open it.
You stare at a contract worth 5 million dollars, and an undisclosed amount of fame, and power.
You press the button, and the door shuts.
You take a deep breath, and you're on your up.

The elevator hid you on your way to an easy victory.
You took the easy way out because you understood ethics.
If you truly understood sin, you would've asked God to help you up the stairs.

People who depend on ethics...

make excuses.
start looking for ways to avoid consequence.
think that doing good will erase their past mistakes.
say, "Bring it on, media".
are comfortable in the court house.
make lieing as easy as telling the truth.
are a slave to the Devil.

Sadly, those who twist the meaning of SIN are no different.

The corporate ladder is not absolutely vertical.
It's angled, intentionally engaging you to the top.

In business, ethics seem to a forefront issue.
And in every profession, good ethics seem to recognize you as the good apple.
The bad apple is tainted with marks and bruises because he or she was not ethical.


Separation of church and state dumbs down SIN into ETHICS.

Ethics delves into the idea that we are good people that tend to sometimes make bad choices.
Oh, ethics sounds so forgiving.
My mind and body craves ethics.

Society's cure to depravity is to beat around the bush from the truth.
Sin is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable.
Sin is the kryptonite for flesh.

Congratulations, everyone passes ethics.
Next Fall, we will be learning about sin.
There will be no curve.