Business and military leaderships.

Day 41 of my internship at Adidas Japan

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Morning challenge update: I woke up at 6:45 a.m this morning and managed to be quite productive until I left for work at 9 a.m.

The objective of such morning is to do things like: creating a website, learning japanese and studying some online classes, as I’m usually too tired to do it after work.

I’ll soon post a bit more details about my website, as I’m still at the beginning of building it … but I’m excited about this new project!

Today was very similar to yesterday, since I had to focus on my big project. The good news is that I almost finished (90+%) the data analysis and thus, only the interpretations/suggestions will be remaining.

I guess it’s not gonna be the easiest part, as I’m not an experienced employee, but I definitely look forward to analyzing the data and trying to draw some managerial suggestions from it.

During lunch, I started to read “Extreme Ownership” by Jocko Willink, a book about leadership based on his experience as a lieutenant commander in the Navy SEALs. I’ve only read a couple of chapters so far but it’s really interesting to see how lessons of leadership in the warzone can be applied to business.

His first lesson is quite similar to a previous post that I wrote, as the book is describing the story of a mission that succeeded thanks to a soldier that managed to distinguish which next step had to be taken. In other words, when he analyzed the situation, he understood that some things had to be done but one thing (some terrorists holding AK47s coming toward him) was also more urgent than all the others and had to be taken care of first.

On the battlefield, they are counting in terms of (nano)seconds when it comes to decision-making and, obviously, you usually have more time to think in the business world. But the learning from this first story is also that you need to train yourself to assess quickly what has to be done immediately and what can wait a little bit.

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