Innovative leader - homework

You can find so many types of leaders out there.  I want to tell you something about innovative leader. Words innovation and leadership are closely related.

Leadership is a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal.

Innovation is about making new tools, products or processes bringing something new which allows people to accomplish something they were not able to accomplish before. Leaders are innovators.  We have to ask 3 questions. Who? Innovator. What? An innovation. How? Process of innovating.

Begin with question who is innovative leader.  He is creative visioner who have big ideas and can motivate people around him to turn those ideas into reality. He recognizes a great idea and creates the path that leads to that ideas becoming reality. When he has formed vision he needs to be able to share it with empolyees and business partners. Innovative leader needs a powerful imagination and excellent communication skills, confidence in his team and their ability to work together to achieve that dream.

His team needs to be able to see the visions in themselves and be willing to invest their own time and resources into making it happen. The most important things are enthusiasm, motivation and inspiration. However, innovative leader needs to recognize when his project is not working and be able to kill it even when it is hard for him.

Great examples for innovative leaders are Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple) and Thomas Alva Edison (electric lighting). I want to point out  about Steve Jobs. Mainly about his famous speech in front of new graduates of Stanford University. Steve says that his life changed  basically three things. One of them was leaving university , being fired from Apple and cancer which changed his view of life itself.

He never graduated from collage. But he took calligraphy course. He used that skills in designing first Mackintosh. He believed that you can not connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. You have to trust in something.

Apple as a corporation has gone in 10 years from 2 people working in garage to 2 billion dollar company with over 4000 employees. The irony is that he got fired from the comany he founded. He was rejected but he started over. Only way to do great work is to love what you do. Your time is limited so dont waste it in living someone elses life. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

His well known quote : If today was the last day of my life what I want to do what I am about to do today. Remebering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

So stay hungry, stay foolish. 

13th day - M&Ms , Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden

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Oh my God :/ I am here almost 2 weeks. It is going so fast. Some of my friends are leaving. I will miss them. Today I had some classes and then went to Piccadilly Circus. Typical rush in London. We have visited shops like Abercrombie and Hollister. Nice boys there. The main thing that almost every turist wants to visit is M&Ms world. Loud palce full of little m&ms. I . bought one pack of these . We took selfie with National Gallery and stopped in Pret and Manger. The lovely  waiter eas there again. We wrote a note to the box for the team. LOL We found cinema in West End. Want to go there on Monday. Covent Garden was just on the corner. We bought donuts and found Aldo. Where I found the best hat I have ever seen. Of course I bought it. I am so in love with it. Ahhh

12th day - Old Spitalfields Market & Brick Lane

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Today is Thursday. It means just one class ! Then I had to wait for others till 3 pm. I wasnt bored because I had so much work to do. Write that essay and add post to my blog. Then I met others and we went to Old Spitalfields Market together. We took many tube lines to get there. We were quite lost. hahh But we asked random people walking around for directions. This market is full of vintage clothes and jewelery. They had the nicest dress ever. During walking around the market me and Viki lost our friends. So we went to restaurant called The Diner and ordered blueberry pancakes. Delicious. hmmm. We were so full afterwards. We had happily arrived to Brick Lane. You can see there interesting grafiti on the walls. Vintage shops and strange people in front of restaurants. I wrote my name on one of that walls. Maybe next year I will find it there. Who knows.

10th & 11th day - school, school, school

New school week has already started.  My Tuesdays  and Wednesdays are the longest days. I have 5 or 4 classes per day. Yeah I know that in normal school is usual to sit  there 7 hours. But they are 45 minutes and these are 80 minutes long. It is great when you have funny teacher and you are doing interesting stuff. But sometimes you have professional English and so boring teacher. Endless 2 classes. Ahh. In general English we are learning about leadership. I have to bring essay about some leader from Slovakia. I guess I will do it about Peter Sagan. This day was birthday for Luna. 17 :) I bought her chocolate cupcake.

On Wednesday I had school till 7 too. I changed my timetable little bit. Now I have instead Professional English  something like B2 skills. Happy girlll. At home I had lasagne. Yummy. I had skype call marathon whole evening. My parents, grandma, boyfriend. I had to clean up things in my suitcase. Total mess before as well as Lunas.

8th & 9th day - Oxford and Museum

On Sunday we went with EF  to Oxford. Historical student city. We had to meet at 8:30 in front of one theatre. I thought I had enough time to get to Waterloo. But the train was delayed and I was like what the hell I am going to do now. But happily I got there 5 minutes before actual leaving. Bus full of students headed to Oxford. I was sitting next to Viki and we talked a lot. In the back were sitting Portugese girls. Funny and loud. hh Surprisingly the weather there was awesome. Sunny and I could wear just shirt. EF staff walked us around the main things and then we had free time. Me, Viki and boy from Denmark ( Mark ) were the best 3.

Oxford is calm and small against London. They had grat market and some cute streets with shops. We went to really big book shop . 5 floors I think. I bought Paper Towns (John Green) and in Lush little pleasure for me. Bubblegum lip scrub. I can actually eat it. There were so many good restaurants. We stopped in one of them and Mark had fish&chips, me and viki pasta. Really delicious. I was so hungry so I ate it in a few seconds. hh The meeting point was near the church. Afterwards our group visited places where Harry Potter was filmed. It was aaaaah , u know. I used to be Potterhead. Then we went home and chill in host family.

On Monday many EF studens have weekend. I happened to us too. My first plan was to go to Notting Hill Crnival with friends of my dad. But it was so rainy outside that we rather did not go. I met Viki under the big clock and took  so maaaaany tube lines to get near Natural History Museum. It was probably just coincidence that everybody in London had the same thoughts. It is a bank holiday, it is raining and we do not want to sit at home.We had to wait in a row for about an hour. We had our umbrellas but we were all wet..somehow. My boots are not waterproof. Sadly. This museum is the best I have ever been in. So huge . We checked ou just some parts. I like that they have different examples and experiments. When we were tired od walking and hungry as wolfs it was the right time to sit down and find a restaurant. Then we vistited shops in one part of Oxford Street. Urban Outfitters, River Island, Primark, Forever 21. I have radomly picked up clothes and tried it on. For fun. They had thought I was not normal. I liked sooo many things. I gave myself a commitment that this week I will not spend too much money for not important things. I went home totally tired and fell asleep.

6th & 7th day - Tate Modern and Camden Town

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Sorry for not posting to my blog for a longer time. I had no time actually to sit down and write something :D But I am back. I stick together 2 days to one post. It is better like that.

On Friday I went to school  pretty early :/ I had to bring my essay about my experience leaning foreign languages. My teacher said that he liked my writing and exepct 2 errors it was good essay. I was happy  he liked that because I had to get up like 2 hours earlier to write that. I worked out whole online unit in iLab. Last lesson was called Lecture F5. One teacher was making strange jokes and explaining us the history of some parts of  UK. I was frreezing because of air-conditioning. Then me, Anna and Elsa went to see Borough Market and London Bridge. Nearby we had delicious dinner right under the bridge. I enjoyed Veggie Burger. We love walking. It is the best way to see London. Our journey started near the London Bridge and ended up in Tate Modern. It is gallery of modern art. I really liked that. We saw St.Pauls Cathedreal from its balcony. Nice view of night in London. In Tate you can find gift shop. It was my heaven. I bought there biography of Coco Chanel. We had to go really fast to catch our trains home.

On Saturday I had just 2 classes and went with french girl Ines to Covent Graden. There were so many people walking around. I ordered pasta. Sooo good meal. I was explaing Ines that we are celebrating names day, we have folk dances, and imatriculation in school. They do not have it. She would like to visit Slovakia once. She can ! :) I was raining soo much. We went to Starbucks and had hot chocolate. I had to meet Luna and Viki in Waterloo station. They were wainting for me. Lunas idea was to go to Camden Town. So we did. Camden is really crazy place. Full of random cheap ( fake) shops to shops like Urban Outfitters. You can find sellers from Turkey, Pakistan and Africa. I bought one  black jacket. Cozy one. We stopped near the tube station. There was one boy who was making noises and singing. He could sing song from Madagaskar and moreover rap and sometimes he sounded like a ambulance car. He was really good. I liked that. Me and Luna went home and I just fall asleep immediately.