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Mba Case Study Chris Gardner Pursuit of Happiness
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[pic]10SP - MG630 152 Org. Behavior & Leader. 21st (Monday)
June 21, 2010

The story of Chris Gardner, a man with vision, a role model to his son and a classical example of how a homeless man with a child can exert himself from being poor to become one of the most outstanding man who successes, and go above and beyond what people think of him. In describing Chris Gardner personality traits, I would say it consist of the fact that he very aggressive ambitious and loyal to his son. Referring to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, his physiological thirst was become a stock broker to improve his living condition. In providing his child with a safety place to bathe, sleep and eat. Chris knows that he poor therefore, he accepted himself for whom he is. His self-actualization is that do better for himself and his son is drive to achieve the goal that he established for himself. From reviewing the interview and movie he seems to be a person that doesn’t give up. He works extremely hard to get to where he needs to be. An example being raped by other men or being abused by his step father doesn’t stop or causes him to give up. Chris Gardner is determined to succeed as he quoted “you can beat me down, but I could read and I’m going place”. With the responsibility of supporting himself and his son he made a pact to himself that he would not abandon his son like his father has done. Thru thick and thin, both will work together to get through the obstacle that arises. Using the big five personality mode, I think that Chris is a very extraversion individual in that in order for him to work as a sale men or become a stock broker he need to show that his a very gregarious and sociable person. He need to have the willingness o be open minded. One of the trait of become a sale person is that to make sales, he need to be outgoing, talkative and confidence of his ability to make the sales. Chris is a very conscientiousness person because he shows that

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