The Last Lecture
Sophia Viscontini
Barbara Leggat
Bus 306
Reflection Paper
November 15, 2013
The Last Lecture In this video, Randy Pausche, the Carnegie Mellon professor, is giving his last lecture. Although, he was fighting a terminal cancer, he was not talking about death, but about how to live in fullest. His last lecture is about his childhood dreams, enabling dreams of others, and about how we can try to achieve them. Randy’s speech is full of lessons which could be as valuable for students, workers, and housewives so long for managers, business owners, and executives. It is easy to relate the context of this video and the speaker himself to a number of Organizational Behavior’s concepts such as; personality, values, individual decision-making, and motivation.
Personality is a set of patterns in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others. From psychologist’s perspective personality is a dynamic concept describing the growth and development of a person’s whole psychological system. For an organizational leader and organizational success, it is important to have a right personality. Randy Pausch shows himself like a great leader who possesses most of Big Five factors, which are most significant variation in human nature. He is extraverted, conscientious, emotionally stable, and open to experience. In addition, he is energetic, enthusiastic, decisive, ambitious, adaptable, risk taking, and persistent. Randy is also analytical and is able to set high standards, but those are realistic pretty realistic. In achieving his goals Randy Pausch is very proactive and risk taking. He identifies opportunities and takes action like in the case of him meeting the Captain Kirk, who was his role model. He took the risk to build his own project even he didn’t know much about it just to give something to enable others to be creative and to achieve their dreams. Randy has all the leadership qualities and as a good leader he owns a set of terminal values, like
Barbara Leggat
Bus 306
Reflection Paper
November 15, 2013
The Last Lecture In this video, Randy Pausche, the Carnegie Mellon professor, is giving his last lecture. Although, he was fighting a terminal cancer, he was not talking about death, but about how to live in fullest. His last lecture is about his childhood dreams, enabling dreams of others, and about how we can try to achieve them. Randy’s speech is full of lessons which could be as valuable for students, workers, and housewives so long for managers, business owners, and executives. It is easy to relate the context of this video and the speaker himself to a number of Organizational Behavior’s concepts such as; personality, values, individual decision-making, and motivation.
Personality is a set of patterns in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others. From psychologist’s perspective personality is a dynamic concept describing the growth and development of a person’s whole psychological system. For an organizational leader and organizational success, it is important to have a right personality. Randy Pausch shows himself like a great leader who possesses most of Big Five factors, which are most significant variation in human nature. He is extraverted, conscientious, emotionally stable, and open to experience. In addition, he is energetic, enthusiastic, decisive, ambitious, adaptable, risk taking, and persistent. Randy is also analytical and is able to set high standards, but those are realistic pretty realistic. In achieving his goals Randy Pausch is very proactive and risk taking. He identifies opportunities and takes action like in the case of him meeting the Captain Kirk, who was his role model. He took the risk to build his own project even he didn’t know much about it just to give something to enable others to be creative and to achieve their dreams. Randy has all the leadership qualities and as a good leader he owns a set of terminal values, like
Bibliography: “The Last Lecture”, Randy Pausche “Organizational Behavior” / Stephen P. Robinson, Timothy A. Judge. – 15th ed. 2013 Pearson Education, Inc., Prentice Hall.