The Personal Business Model Canvas
helped me to understand my interests and strengths. The Model enabled me to get
a new picture about myself and about attitudes influencing my way of life. This
visual and hands-on tool underlines clearly and summarizes my value, skills and
purpose in career and life. The model in general and the given examples in the
book “Business Model You” inspired me to think in detail about my surrounding.
In this manner I gained deep information about myself that were unconscious to
me. In particular I received unknown information about “how I interact” and
“what I get”. My interaction is face-to-face and via phone, mail and other
multimedia channels, especially Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Xing. It was not
clear to me that I interact in daily life so much over multimedia channels.
Mainly I use Xing to follow business discussions, get in contact with people
who have the same interests and share news. The Personal Business Model
highlighted this spot.
The canvas exercise confirmed
that my revenue and benefits eminently are salary, jobs, motivation,
satisfaction, fun and motivation. I always felt true that these are the key
benefits I get. The canvas exercise had added discussions a new benefit.
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After I did the canvas
exercise in class and in particular the wheel of life exercise at home identified
fields which I want to pay more attention in future. Orientation has changed
more to the areas of “health” and “family & friends” and less to “career”
and “travel”. The importance and responsibility of health, also in view of my
family, I realized. I ranked “health” first to live in a responsible and
contented way. Areas like career and travel have not concerned me in the way I
thought.
For me, there are several
characteristics a business leader should have. It is important to point them
out before I am able to describe a leader who I most like. Characteristics of
great leaders are being flexible, being able to communicate, have courage and
patience and being responsible. A business leader in my point of view must be
especially efficient in determining the company’s destination and emphasize the
value of the company’s customers.[1]
A person who especially fascinates
me in terms of idea generation, implementation, corporate governance and
willpower is Carl Icahn. He lives in New York, United States, and is 78 years
old and famous for trading large stakes in major companies and hostile
takeovers.[2]
Icahn’s career began at the New York Stock Exchange as a stockbroker. After a
few years he formed his own company which focuses on risk arbitrage and options
trading. In my point of view Icahn has the best ability at seeing the value of
companies others had overlooked.[3]
He is a brilliant example of courage and hard work. He achieves the American
dream.
"We're not about liquidating
companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the
factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more
productive."[4]
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I am, as a finance person, totally
amazed about Icahn’s career, way of live and fighting from a small stockbroker
to a CEO of one of the biggest enterprises in America. He always focused on his
goal and did not lose track at anytime. I am really impressed about his high
motivation to achieve changes in management of major companies he has large
stakes of and force them to improve their performance.
"We're not about liquidating
companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the
factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more
productive."[5]
In many cases in the past, I
followed his ideas belong to trade stocks. As mentioned I am of the opinion
that my personal skills are quite like the skills of Carl Icahn. To sum up, Icahn
represents a role model for me, both to guide its kind business and his daily
life. I orient myself in many situations at him and scrutinize how situations
were solved by him.
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