What I've learned from my first business case study

Don't tread on my bro

What I learned from my first business strategy case project is that bachelor's degrees can only bring you so far. It is about how badly you want it. Give me passion or give me death. 

Work hard enough to earn respect 
This is where everything begins. How much do you want it? Do you want it more than you can breathe? Are you willing to sacrifice grades, friends, employment, entertainment, sleep, eating and spending time with love ones so you can get done what is required? In a never ending world of improvement, it is a requirement to be a Peter B. Kyne's Go Getter if you want to amount to anything. If you set the tone in work ethic, it doesn't matter if you have a degree in scuba diving, your team will look to you as a leader. Now, there is a fine line, let your actions speak for yourself and don't boast about how awesome you are... use Facebook for that. Instead, lose all your fear about how under-qualified you are and do what you can do. If you can research, research the pants off the project, if you make cookies- make the best dad-gum cookies known to this world. If you can organize and plan effective meetings then gosh darn it make sure you take control of it. The worst thing, absolute worst thing you can do is to wait around and be told what to do. I hate those people. Literally hate them. Those people are still in a diaper high school mindset.

Be humble enough to ask for help and even more importantly embrace criticism:
In each and every case, you do not come up with the right idea in the first five minutes. I would say about 94% of the ideas that your team comes up with will be wrong. Being wrong is the worst. After all those hours of preparation and refining your ideas, some team member just shuts it down. haha Sometimes you just want to go "shut them down" if you know what I mean. The American experience is about compromise. You have to be able to adjust and open your mind to deeper prospectives. So this area is my favorite, asking for people's criticism because this helps you gain a better connection with the person you are asking help with. Don't get me wrong, they will have to prove me wrong but when they do they feel like a Boss and you get the much needed help. The worst thing that can happen here is that they are not 100% honest with you and cripple you. Since you are a go getter, that should not bother you at all

Finding your competitive angle means digging deep:
There are some base traits that everyone has such as hard worker, high level of detail, passion but there are some that make your different diversity in the team means playing to your strengths, delegating your weaknesses, exploiting opportunities and eliminating your threats. It might take you a couple of weeks, projects, and even months to fully understand what you bring to the table, but once you find that niche exploit the heck out of it.  

The difference between quantitative and qualitative data: 
haha just go to this website. It helped me out and it will help you out. 
http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/math/algebra/AD1/qualquant.htm

The take home message. 
Humanities majors can make it in the business world. It is all about how much you want it. I don't care if you are a tuba major, if you want it enough you will force yourself above and beyond anywhere close to where you have been before. 
HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT IT?????????

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