Festival In Korea

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Festival In Korea, the president of a high school is given a big task to make a festival. American high schools hold the Prom to celebrate graduation, but Korean high schools have a similar activity that helps students relieve stress before graduation. Students come to see the other school’s festival; therefore, it was an important event to gain honor for my school. I was really excited and interested before producing the festival. I did not know that I would obtain some valuable things through the festival: communication skills, flexibility, and joy of a challenge. I really wanted to produce a good festival that would impress the other schools and bring honor to my school, so I forced my members to make something: an organized and perfect festival. "Communication is the real work of leadership," says HBS professor Nitin Nohria, who documented the importance of persuasion in his 1992 book. However, I did not realize how important it is. Because of my ignorance, I could not consider harmony with members. For example, when we organized the festival, a member disagreed with me, so I pushed the member to accept my opinion because I thought my opinion was appropriate to the festival. I did not accept the member’s opinion at all. If I had worked with the members this way, I believed members would have followed me and we would have made something special. However, I was wrong. My immature leadership caused fighting with a member because of our different opinions, so the atmosphere of my team was depressed during a few days. As a result, it made a more difficult situation to lead the team. Since this happened, I gave advice to my family, friends, and teachers. I realized my huge mistake. The problem was insufficient communication. The reason why I made a mistake was that I thought I was a sociable person, so I thought this fact guaranteed that my
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