I got up early today and went to the gym. This has been a regular occurrence for me for about the last month. My schedule is such this semester that the best time for me to go is in the morning, and I like it better that way. Anyway, I don't know about anyone else, but the gym is where I get a lot of my thinking done. This morning I thought a lot about what it means to be a leader.
Our Management and Leadership class has really stimulated my thinking this semester. It is thought by Mr. George Wibben, a man who considers himself a pracademic instead of an academic, mainly because he has learned what he knows about leadership from being in the workforce and through trail and error rather than from a book. His insights into what makes someone a leader and a person that others want to work for have been very interesting. Latter on in the semester we have to define what our leadership philosophy is, and that is what I spent most of the morning thinking about. Mr. Wibben has laid to rest some of the preconceived notions of what a leader is and how a leader should act, and made it more about a personal style. It has been very interesting.
Latter on this afternoon, I will be presenting in the first round of the summer internship presentation competition. Then, the weekend begins......FOOTBALL!!
