Figure, Reason, Point, Before view

Today’s lecture should have been team presentations, but actually was not. This was twice that I misunderstood the obligation of presentation. But it was not bad, because I got an opportunity to improve my presentation.

Today’s lecture style was orthodox: first was summary of the case, and discussion about that. But what I could not understand was she divided class into three, not into group that prepared some presentation, and gave each group each role such as product manager, and started to discuss about the case. I thought this way was inefficient because we can not necessarily express the opinion which was made by group, and ultimately this group preparing and non-group lecture made the quality of discussion lower.

But, of course, there was some positive aspects about that. One was it made clear characters and opinions of individual students. What was more, the discussion confused in two positions; promote organic cotton, and not care about organic. The discussion was interesting because it told me how to express my opinion, and what is good speech.

From this lecture, I learned four things:

Figure: In discussion, or business communication, figure is important and only information we can rely on. For example, figure about distribution, money, time, are most important figures.

Reason: It is also important for discussion. Opinion itself is no value, and reason is true value because there is no room to inspect opinion without reason.

Point: To grasp key factor is important in the premise of figure and reason. For example, what is competitive advantage for a firm.

Before view: This is overlook of discussion. There are some question and requirement for discussion, but before that, to see broadly is more important. For example, in the case of H&M, organic cotton is used by only 1%, it means it might be waste of time to discuss organic cotton.