Sunday, February 20, 2011

Is not easy to keep an egg happy.....!!

  Generally, all members of  my team were exited and were fully engaged in this process. Many ideas were on  circulation, ideas how to execute the plan, drowing , and everyone had an  open minde on how to choose the best plan to meet our goal which it  was given a serious thoughts. The goal was clear to everyone and was maintained throughout the process. The first three steps were fully maintained to certain extend, but  not step by step .our group was effective in planning and choosing the most effective plan because everyone was  participating, so  we didn't find any difficulty to agree on the best plan to achieve our goal. Evaluation of our resource was  detailed enough as it first step in planning, I believe that because it was kind emerged with  evaluation of the  plan .  Our group's skills for such goal was one aspect that we were not aware of,  which left the group's members without a specific task , in other word we  didn't assign a single function to a single individual. The time frame played a big role in evaluating and finding  an alternative strategies, we decided to go for one plan as it was sketched and also because we didn't want to fall in changing a plans as time limit comes to end. the implementation of our plan was folowed ,executed  properly  and according to our drawing .  the result unfortunately was not pleasant  which explained that there must be  something- if not many things- went wrong. I believe that we misevaluate our resources which lead to misuse it  ,for instance we ends up with many straws on hands. In addition to not meeting the goal, it  was because we did not distributed the functions among us inndividually,it was a collective work .   Even dough the result was not pleasant , I'm sure that we have learned a lots from this activity that will add some learning to our comprehension which will certainly  enhance our involvement  in other projects to come.
                                                    Again management is life learning ...

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Please Take off Your shoes...:_-))


   My background as an Arab has injected me with so many things that I find hard to get rid of some.However, the idea of taking off shoes by the door before entering the house is an essential tradition and cultural mannerism that I still hold to until today while many sees it as unnecessary act. I have noticed how people felt insulted in this society when asked to take off their shoes when I invited them over to my place. This is  a simple and easy to do but yet  brings discomfort to people  and a nuisance for myself. One of the many things that took some getting used to was the  common use of what I consider to be foul language.  Two things Arab men refuse to disclose any information about is "his wife", moreover never ask  him anything about "his car or his wife". Yet I felt very awkward when a customer asked me  if his wife is beautiful enough when I was working in a restaurant a long time ago. After all I have to say that I have adapted to many things I came across in the  society here except the idea not  "taking shoes off at the door".                    

Sunday, February 6, 2011

About me :



   Since I came to US. I have enjoyed visiting many States including New York. New York just has its attraction, its won charm, and its magnificence that doesn't exist anywhere else. I also traveled to other countries like France, Spain, and Belgium,and I have lived in Europe for quite a while .I came here with my own vision and with ambition to carry out my plan in order to accomplish my goal which was to own a business. I worked hard and save quite a good capital to start my business. So my first restaurant business was established in Brooklyn in 2003. But I had a partner who played a big role in my dream to vanish within six month. I can say that It was in part my bad decision in associating with someone who had no idea about a food business, also the trust that's brought everything else to ends at first stage of establishing a restaurant. However, I opened another one in Manhattan which was my plan to recover from the previous failure. The high rent and level of competition in the Hells’ Kitchen area as well as other factors had forced me to close it down. without getting in the details of what others factors, I have learned a great deal of experience in the restaurant business.
I also learned not to give up no matter how many times I failed. This is one of the reasons I have enrolled in college to study business, so I can merge my experience with what I'm willing to learn academically. Management is part of my road toward my goal