Lesson 1 of Lecture 1A1: International

Business & Entrepreneurship

Notes taken by Christina Ong, 7 July 2016 (Thursday)

Programme (91 min)

0900-0920

Introduction (20 min)

0920-0922

Setting of expectations for the module via post-its, individual work (2 min)

0922-0926

Round-robin sharing of expectations (4 min)

0926-0930

Team-based round robin sharing of expectations (4 min)

0930-0942
Navigating Kita-sans seminar page and reading on his story
(http://teach21japan.weebly.com/uploads/5/6/4/2/56428643/ghj_lbejpn.pdf) (12 min)
0943-1013

Sharing of Kita-sans personal story (30 min)

1013-1016

Answering Kita-sans 3 questions on post-its entrepreneur/innovative/creative (3 min)

1016-1021

Round-robin within teams, individual sharing (6 min)

1021-1024

Preparation for team presentations (3 min)

1025-1031

Sharing of team presentations (7 min)

Assignment: Reading on entrepreneurship which will be emailed.

There are TWO PARTS, A and B.

Room set-up
1) Flipcharts, post-its and markers for each group
2) ISP participants to be reshuffled into different teams every session

Reminders
1) Bring PC (and charger) as class will be heavily web-based
a. http://www.teach21japan.weebly.com/ispsim.html
b. Smartphone with access to internet will suffice, if laptop is considered too heavy

Discussion Exercises
1. Setting of class expectations (top 3 per team)
Team 1: Process, Confidence, Effects of Global Politics
Team 2: Innovation, Self-awareness, Communication Skills
Team 3: New Ideas, Confidence, Enjoy

Kita-sans comments: Confidence as the common factors between 2 groups. Interesting to see the
differences even within 3 small teams. Good to have diversity of interests.

2. Note-taking on Kita-sans life story in 3 areas:

a. Is Kita-san an entrepreneur? What makes Kita-san an entrepreneur?
b. What are the things you feel that Kita-san is innovative at?
c. What are the areas that you feel that makes Kita-san creative?
Team 1: Live for other people; Diverse experience; Partnered with American
Team 2: Creating jobs; finds solutions to issues he sees; reflects on past experiences
Team 3: Independent (S$33,000 loan) risk-taking; Potential diversity; Experience, thinking

Concepts
1) Retention
a. What is left in memory
2) Active Learning
a. Discussion groups-heavy (50% retention)

3) Keywords: practice critical thinking, getting to the point

4) Collaboration: no one solution that is owned by just one person
a. Diversity important: coming from the culture, coming up with an answer that everyone can
agree on. But when you cannot agree with someone else, it may prompt another way of
thinking from another culture
5) Direction in life:
a. Can humans live by themselves?
b. If we cannot live by ourselves, how do we live?
i. You cant live for yourself if you cannot live by yourself, so you can only live for and
with others
c. How to live for others?
i. Finding something to improve upon for people around you
ii. Empathy
d. How to find something to work on?
i. Observing surroundings
ii. Reflection
iii. Research
6) Past vs. present: Now will become the past. You need the foundation of where you stand, or you
will not know where you are going and how you are going
a. Road-mapping: knowing where you stand, and knowing where you want to go
i. Running the race without knowing the goal
b. Do you just want to find any job?: Finding a job that serves your purpose
i. If you know what you want, you just have to wait for others to come to you
ii. God of Fortune (god of luck) in Japan (Konokomisama?): you can only grab the
god when it is coming to you, only when you know exactly what you want. You cant
grab the god from the back you need to know what you want WHEN it comes to
you
7) Inquisitiveness: Building sub-conscious level (what you want to make happen)
a. founder of Panasonic, Konosuke Matsushita, said, intelligence blocks your mind, admit that
you dont know anything
b. Curiosity about your surroundings

Weblinks
http://www.guyhealyjapan.com/
http://www.lbejapan.co.jp/about.html