The Guest Speaker’s Day
Last Tuesday we got three lectures at Screen Media Lab, each guest speaker talked about their work experiences and real problems on the job. Just like Dom said: It’s really Inspirational, especially the first and the last speaker¬-Oliver Leggett and Alan James.
First of all, Oliver mentioned that the different between manager and leader, this is the issue that I never think about. “A successful manager can be trained, but there are only 3% people can be a good leader” Oliver said. It’s extremely shock me. Then I started thinking what I am? I’m a manager or a leader? And what did I want? A good leader is about how he influence people, “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership” he said. I think I could see the reality of Oliver’s business culture and how he really to be a good leader.
The last speaker, Alan James, is working in music industry, and manages a super cool band called “The Bay”. Through the film about The Bay, I can see a lot of creative musicians in this band, they got classical, country, pop and rock’n roll, this is the all new style in this music market. They also used technology in their performance, the digital music score, notations can show up immediately when they are playing instruments.
I think through these lectures, we learn a lot that the school modules didn’t have. It’s more practically and more close to the realize.
Enterprise | ilovecheere | Monday, March 2, 2009
The guest speaker always bring a bit of ‘reality’ to the course! Glad you enjoyed that element of it.
BTW – Alan James is not the manager of The Bays – he just worked with them to produce the event he showed us.
OPPS…
SORRY FOR MY POOR LISTENING = =
Hi,
I believe that Alan’s title for the project with the Bays was Creative Production Director. He works as a freelance producer / director on a variety of events in the arts / music The Bays event being one of them. He sees it as an ongoing project that will (hopefully) develop over time and will be repeated as and when funding and availability of personnel allows.
Cheers
DS
From Oliver his speach given me a very different aspect, a business culture is really important for a company leader or manager, it direct effect the employee their performance and the relationship with company.
Rather than working in a happy small company not in a unhappy big environment ? It’s a good question ask ourself before step in future career.