London Wu

What a wonderful 2009

to me, to the world.

Thanks for everybody around me.

Thanks for your supports and cares.

Wish you all the best in the brand new 2010.

For me, I will keep moving, with goal, with faith!

Happy New Year!!

Sorry for the long time disappearance from my blog. The classes at the second block of this semester are kinda crazy due to the endless papers, case brief and presentations. However, We will be released soon after the final exams, with one month's Christmas holiday following up. For some reason, I won't go back to China, even though I miss my family and friends badly. Anyway, I do wish all of them healthy and happy.

Last week, thanksgiving break, I went to visit Washington D.C., Maryland and Boston. For time reason, I didn't go to NYC. However, I will visit the city on the approaching Christmas, hopefully. Here shares some pictures of my previous trip.

 

Capital Hill in D.C.

Capital Hill

Capital Hill

White House

Smithsonian Castle

Smithsonian Pool

Policeman

Washington Monument

President Lincoln

Harvard University

Harvard

Chinatown in Boston

 

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that who ever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16).

Thanks Joe Don, Maranda, Bryan and Joanna so much for the Study Bible and nice card. They are also a blessing from God.

 Thanks :)

Thanks, boy!

 

I love teamwork, especially with the right teammates! I did enjoy the first presentation in USA, quite successful! I appreciate my GREAT teammates : Denise and Randall! At the same time, thanks so much for Professor Metheny!

Denise (A great person! She has three cute kids :) )

Randall (A wonderful guy. He is the team member in our University football team)

William

Denise and Professor Metheny

Thanks God for everything!

 

 The Wal-Mart trip last week-end made me love Wal-Mart more than before. It's absolutely an excellent and humble company. Also I enjoyed the time with my good friend--Trent, and his family. They are so neat and special. I like them :)

 

Ben, Jenny, London, Abigail, Trent, Emily

Inside the Home Office of WM

Outside the Home Office of WM

Visitor Center of WM

Happy time in the Farmer Market

I bought a bag of coffee bean

Trent and me

Nice Coffee

Happy Time together

Nice Memory! Many thanks for the Burners and the Wimberlys!!

God blesses everybody!

 

<<Our Iceberg Is Melting>>, very EXCELLENT book! I have read it many times. Highly recommend!

In my opinion, what is the most useful to me is "The Eight Step Process of Successful Change":

Set the Stage
1. Create a Sense of Urgency
Help others see the need for the change and the importance of acting immediately.

2. Pull Together the Guiding Team
Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the change-one with leadership skills, credibility, communications ability, authority, analytical skills, and a sense of urgency.

Decide What to Do
3. Develop the Change Vision and Strategy.

Make it Happen
4. Communicate for Understanding and Buy In.
Make sure as many others as possible understand and accept the vision and the strategy.

5. Empower Others to Act
Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so.

6. Produce Short-Term Wins.
Create some visible, unambiguous successes as soon as possible.

7. Don’t Let Up.
Press harder and faster after the first successes. Be relentless with initiating change after change until the vision is a reality.

Make it Stick
8. Create a New Culture.
Hold on to the new ways of behaving, and make sure they succeed, until they become strong enough to replace old traditions.

 

Moon Festival

It's the day for family members to get together.

It's the time I miss you all so much!

Dear grandma, you will be better soon,

since plenty of nice people here have been praying for you.

Dear cousin, congratulations on your sweet baby's coming to this world.

Dear brother, I am looking forward to your wedding in November.

Dear parents, thank you for everything you do for me.

Dear sisters, you are the best ones, you can make the difference.

Dear aunt, you are the blessing to me from God. I love you.

Dear dearest, I miss you.

Happy Moon Festival!

 

Life is interesting recently. I love the life though.

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You can say you don't like any teammate who doesn't play the game under the rules or even breaks the rules. But it means nothing. However, if you can try best to make the teammate to obey the rules to a certain extent, and get the task done efficiently, it really means something!

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A man is successful, because he has ONE woman behind him all the time. A man is lost, because he has MANY women behind him all the time.

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When you wanna get something, you have to give up something else.

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I love life, I like people around me, even though some may make me complicated or even angry, that's okay. Forget it, and figure out what should do next step. Please remember, London, the bottom line is TEAM, COMMUNITY!!!

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God bless everybody!

 

Party time  (Sep. 18th)

The amazing painting are my favorite in the house. At the same time, I like the people over there. I love the Happy Birthday Song they sang for me! Highly appreciate the host----the Boatrights.

Birthday Breakfast, Cake & Cards (Sep. 19)

Thanks for Sandra, Bill, Heather, Johnson, Carson, Jackson and Anderson. Nice birthday breakfast, tasty birthday cake, and fantastic birthday cards:

Carson(7 years old), Jackson(4), Anderson(2)

From Carson'card. My hair color is black:)

Carson

Jackson

From Jackson's card (100% original :))

Anderson

From Anderson's card (100% original :))

BBQ (Sep. 20)

Thanks for Jenny, Ben, Rebekah, Jenor, and Johnson. Ben is an excellent cook! I love his pork steak!

Ben. Your are so cool, dude!!

Port Steak

I am th King of Ginger!! haha

Other Nice Memory Pictures:

Nice Trip

Pleasant Valley Church of Christ

 at the Church

at the Church, with Paige.

Bill's Coffee House, Nice Coffee, Nice People!!

Back to Campus...

Thanks God for everything! God loves us!

I recently read a book named <<Good to Great>> written by Jim Collins. It's really worthy to read.

Here I am sharing some good points from the book:

• Look in the mirror, not out the window, to apportion responsibility for poor results, never blaming other people, external factors, or bad luck.
• Look out the window, not in the mirror, to apportion credit for the success of the company--to other people, external factors, and good luck.
• We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then they figured out where to drive it.
• The old adage "People are your most important asset" turns out to be wrong. People are not your most important asset. The right people are!
• The purpose of a compensation system should not be to get the right behaviors from the wrong people, but to get the right people on the bus in the first place, and to keep them there.
• Indeed, one of the crucial elements in taking a compay from good to great is somewhat parodoxical. You need executives, on the on hand, who argue and debates--sometimes violently--in pursuit of the best answers, yet, on the other hand, who unify fully behind a decision, regardless of parochial interests.
• Whether someone is the "right person" has more to do with character traits and innate capabilities than with specific knowledge, background, or skills.
• A key psychology for leading from good to great is the Stockdale Paradox: Retain absolute faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they minght be.
• "Stop doing" lists are more important than "to do" lists.

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One more book named <<The World Is Flat>> written by Thomas L. Friedman is also amazing.

It will make you know more about Globalization via fantastic ways. I am enjoying it. : )