Leon Barrios Pablo Business Workshop

Today I don’t have business class but I have to write a post for this blog and actually I don’t have any idea of what to talk in here soy I decide to do some research on one of the investors that came to my mind when I think on the only think that I know that is about business, Shark Tank, so I’m gone talk more specifically about Carlos Bremer.   Carlos Bremer is the director of the Financial Group Value that recently have won the auction of the mansion of the businessman call Zhenli Ye Gon, also is known of support the Mexican athletes with the Fundación Butaca Enlace, that the onlypurpose of that foundation is help the athletes that the government can´t support and s upport the  m, the most recent example are the Panamerican Games where they offer to every medalist a great scholarship. The point of all this explanation of the good that he make to the Mexicans athletes is the perfect example that a businessman don’t need to have selfish or arrogant, a good businessman is ...

The last two classes we have been talking about to topics that go one with the other the first one is name Negotiation Techniques were we discos what is a negotiation and the stages of the negotiation and the second topic we discos is the investor´s profile, what type of negotiation you need to do with an investor what you need to show him and what no. First I want to define what a negotiation is, the negotiation is to reach an agreement, in a negotiation exist tree important factor: first is that it must be beneficial for both parts, second is that there must be persuasive as a key factor, and third if this list is that you need to understand that before it is good for us, it is good for them. Another important fact in a negotiation is that you have to identify and develop a good proposal for all parts involved. The negotiation involve six steps which are: 1.         Preparation 2.        Discussions (first suggestions) 3. ...

 Today we talk about so many different topics, but there was one that call more my attention, and it was the Marketing Mix, we define the Marketing Mix as the combination of the minimum variables necessary to be able to develop efficient and effective strategies for the selected market. It sis compose of 4 aspect. First of all the P from Product that involves the goods or services that aims to meet the needs of our client, also it is related to the guarantees and the expectation the client has and the value added in the visual form of the product itself must be considered. The second P is related to the Price and it’s the only P that translates into monetary terms and generates income, you most establish ways in which the price will be set, in class we talk about 3 ways to establish the price, the first was named Costing that is the most easy, considering the cost of the manufacturing of the product you add the percentage you want to win, the second is   known as Pricing t...

  On today’s class we start talking about marketing mix, starting with defining what is the Swot Analysis getting into the conclusion that the Swot analysis is when a company needs that the marketing department or any particular area of a company requires generating changes or developing strategies, a situation analysis is recommended as a basis. It allows identifying various aspects that should be considered before making changes in the organization. Consider 4 important criteria: internal, external, controllable and non-controllable. The word SWOT have a meaning each letter. -           - S trength -           - W eakness -           - O pportunity -           - T hreat Strength are controllable and internal factors of the organization. It allows us to visualize what the company does properly and that has decision-making capacity, some examples of Strengths are the ...

 On today’s class we talk about entrepreneurship, we mentioned that an entrepreneur is a person that identifies an opportunity and organize the essential resources needed to take it. Regularly, it´s commonly used to people that start a business. There are two types of entrepreneurs: pure and indirect. The pure entrepreneurs are defined as the ones that initiates an enterprise not for economical need, but because they detects an opportunity and feels passion for starting it. On the other side the indirect entrepreneur creates a business due to the economical need and has a lack of resources, in Mexico the most common type of entrepreneurship is the indirect, some of the qualities of an entrepreneur is the initiative to start a business, the vision to choose correctly which opportunities are the indicated, tolerance with other and with failure because the failure is an important part of an entrepreneur, another quality is work in team and he last example we talk was assertive meaning...

  On today class we talk about administration process, we know there are many different types and styles of leadership so there are plenty types of administration process, but specifically in class we saw   4 steps of the administration process, the first one and the most important is planning, during the planning you need to consider the organization goals and the way to achieve them, there are many reasons to plan but the three most common: establish the general objective and consider the future of the organization, second to identify and compromise resources to achieve the goals, and third decide the activities I need to do in order to accomplish those goals. The second step of the administration process is the organizing, is the procedure that considers from which part of the organization, decisions will be taken, the right people that will take certain positions in the organization, tasks that might be requested and who will depends of who, this step implies the creation ...

On this class we continue with the same topic, leadership, today we talk about Kurt Lewing and the professor mention that he was a recognized psychologist that said that there are three notables styles of leadership, the first one is the autocratic , is an style of leadership that is characterized by the individual control of the leader over all decisions and a small contribution of the group members, autocratic leaders usually make decisions based on their ideas and judgment and rarely accept of the rest, the second style is known as democratic, this style is characterized by have a leader that encourage people to participate, letting employees decide more about their functions and have sufficient powers to make decisions, also the employees can express their opinion and aren’t limited to receive orders, another important thing is to not fall into ochlocracy, two key aspects in democratic leadership is the communication and empowerment. The last of the three styles of leadership we ta...