MSLD500_Activity3.4_HoyeJennifer

The Hunt Library is Embry Riddle Aeronautical Universities library and database for scholarly articles. "The Hunt Library provides access to materials, information resources, services and facilities to students, faculty and staff in support of the University's commitment to excellence in teaching, learning and research. As an academic support unit, the library maintains flexibility and is proactive in meeting the changing information needs of its clientele. The Hunt Library is the primary information center for the Daytona Beach Campus as well as for Embry-Riddle Worldwide and Worldwide Online students. The library links the information needs of the University community with existing resources either locally or through sharing agreements and technological resources"

The Hunt Library as a resource is excellent because it has scholarly information, journals and news articles. You can find the most up-to-date information, as opposed to searching for any information written by anybody that has ever been written about a subject on the inter webs. Keep in mind also, a Google search may provide you toe top contenders for your search based on 'ad words' advertising, which is not necessarily the best return on your search! This fact is extremely important when finding data to suppose a scholarly paper or writing. I want information that I use to back my point to be of information of sustenance, not just filler that some Joe Schmoe decided to write about on a rainy day!

"Output can only be as good as the input"



Source:
About the Library | Worldwide | Hunt Library | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. (n.d.). Libraries | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Retrieved January 27, 2012, from http://library.erau.edu/worldwide/about/

MSLD500_Activity2.3_HoyeJennifer

For this post, I will be answering a few questions about myself. I am linking 100 Things About Me, from a couple of years ago, but I think it gives you a little insight to who I am and how I think!

"A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful." -Jacqueline Bisset


•What are some standards that are most important in your life?

Integrity: If there is ONE thing people cannot say about me, it's that I am a liar, or someone who does not follow through. I strive to be a woman of integrity and honestly. I have little patience for those who do not act the same. Once of my BIGGEST pet peeves is when someone says he/she will do something, and then does not do it! You see, if there is even a slight chance that I think I won't be able to do something, I don't tell you I will do it! (even if it seems mean)

Reliability: Being reliable sort-of piggy backs on integrity. I feel that being a reliable person is priceless. I believe if you are reliable, you will go far in all aspect of life!

Fairness: The ability to consider the strengths and weaknesses of opposing points of view and then to imaginatively put myself in the place of others in order to genuinely understand them is super important to me, although I am told that I don't come off very understanding! That being said, I still think I am a super-fair person, that needs to work on SHOWING people I am listening!

Positive: I am definitely a 'glass is half full' type of person. I can see the best in almost any situation and person. I always got the sportsmanship ribbon when I was younger and as an adult I find that people love working with and for me because of this standard!

"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation." -Michael Jordan


Popular Extrovert: I LOVE people and can literally talk to anybody. Though it's not important to me to be 'popular' by any means, I have lots of 'friends'! :)


•How did you acquire those standards?

When I was young...I was raised in a very strict religious and military family. I was the oldest of 4 and was/am very independent. My mom jokes, "That if I could have birthed myself, I would have". that being said, I've always been head-strong and fearless. Though I've grown to believe things a bit differently from the way that I was raised, I still respect where I came from. Being raised the way I was raised had a great deal in forming the way I think and act.

I was a very observant little girl and still posses this trait. I've always paid very close attention to people's verbal and non-verbal cues in situations and to people. I feel it has played a great role in the type of mother/partner/sibling/leader/manager I was and am.


•How have they changed over the years?

I used to care very much what people thought of me, when I turned 30, I no longer cared! I don't really know what it was about '30' particularly, but it was the magic year my 'give-a-damn' card got thrown out the window! I've always been fearless and not afraid of a challenge, but I feel like when I was younger I hesitated quite a bit more than I do now as an adult.

I am often not what people think I am at first glance. If they see me in business attire, they have no idea I am heavily tattooed, and witty. If they see me in my regular clothes, they make assumptions that I am un-approachable and not nealry as educated as I am! I love being a bit of a camelion, I think it makes me unique!

MSLD 500-Activity 1.6-HoyeJennifer

Intellectual Perseverance

Intellectual Perseverance: Willingness and consciousness of the need to pursue intellectual insights and truths in spite of difficulties, obstacles, and frustrations. It is also the firm adherence to rational principles despite the irrational opposition of others and having a sense of need to struggle with confusion and unsettled questions over an extended period of time to achieve deeper understanding or insight. In a more simplistic sense, Intellectual perseverance can be defined as the disposition to work one's way through intellectual complexities despite the frustration inherent in the task!

Critical thinking does not entail merely intellectual skills such as intellectual perseverance. It is a way of connecting oneself and approaching problems that differ significantly from that which is typical in life. People may have critical thinking skills and abilities, and yet still be unable to enter viewpoints with which they disagree, analyze beliefs that guide their behavior, distinguish between what they know and don’t know, persevere through difficult problems, think fair-mindedly, or stand alone against the crowd. Thus, in developing as a thinker, and fostering critical thinking abilities in others, it is important to develop intellectual traits or virtues. In saying this, you can see how important critical thinking skills are not only in studies...but in life!


In considering how intellectual perseverance relates to my concept of a good leader, there are many parallels! For instance to be a good leader, you must posses the ability to think outside of yourself when making decisions, much of the same considered to be intellectual perseverance!.

The saying, “Attitude determines altitude.” is fitting here! Although this saying is a bit cliche, it is still true! Attitude almost always determines your success rate! Not only will attitude determine your personal success,it will also determine how successful you are at leading others. A truly good leader will have a positive attitude about everything he/she does regardless of the 'enjoyment level' of the task at hand!

In order to apply intellectual perseverance to leadership, I've compiled a list. (I love lists, don't hate!)

- Make sure the information used to make a decision is relevant to the issue.
- Make sure the information is accurate.
- Make sure you have sufficient information to solve the problem.
- Make sure you haven't distorted the information or ignored information you don't want to see.
- Don't give up!
- Don't get personal
- Be positive
- Don't forget your vision, or the reason you are doing what you are doing!

I love this quote by David Harold Fink, "People are more easily led than driven." It helps me remember that in the end, we lead people...not things!