스탠포드 바바라 교수님

I have copy pasted the emails I had with Professor Barbara who is the founder of Stanford D.School. I attended her lecture again and few days later I also had a tea time in San Francisco with her before I go back to South Korea. She gave me a link to her research papers. I made a bridge between Barbara and Sunghyun who is VP of HR in SK. Specific details are below.

 

 

Thank you for inviting me again and this time I was happier to get to know you more personally.

I had such a wonderful time and your lecture was always provoking and stimulating. I always learn so much from you that you gave me a wish to attend Stanford graduate school.

What I learned this time:

1) taking a look at the gap between what we think and what we say, helps us understand how we unknowingly disempowering ourselves (Chris Argyris theory)  I learned a great frame of thinking to control what I say. 'What they said - What I thought but didn't said - What I said'

2) So very interesting that understanding character, plot, and conflict aren't enough in developing our "STORY" Recognize there are multiple tellers of your story.

3) Yes! Dominique's story about the hardship attractive engineering women face in finding jobs was something that really knocked out my head. I never would've thought about the problem if I wasn't in your class.

4) By how you teach students, I realized questioning and well-responding to a person is one of the key to bringing up their thoughts on table and guiding their thoughts by making consensus with the class is your talent.

I wish I can continue my interest and studying by reading your papers(I'm very excited already) and if you want I can also share your paper with Christoper Han and talk together about it together when I'm back in Seoul.

I sincerely appreciate your precious time. I know how hard it is for you to make a minute for me. I will live my best so your time for me will not go wasted but become a prime water for me to be a person who could change many things in the world.

God bless you.

Thank you.

From Shawn Sung-hoon Suh


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Hi Shawn,

I head to the east bay late in the day tomorrow/ Tuesday...

Might you have time to meet in San Francisco before I head there:

2pm?

Maybe we can meet at the tea garden place (name?) inside the Ferry Building, on the Embarcadero?

There are two papers on my web site for the design entrepreneuring studio: under research.

web.stanford.edu/~karanian

Can you ping me again  before you go, and I will find you a few more, too?

Thank-you so much for interest in my teaching and research - I added a few comments below!

Hope to see you for a tea break tomorrow,

~Barbara

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Dear Barbara and Sunghyun

I would like to introduce to each other to become friends in making a synergy to help people discover their own genius inside and maximize their true potentials to find joy in what they do.

Barbara this is Sunghyun, he knows a lot of good traveling sites in SF.

He is the VP of HR for SK Planet and he have been in Human Resources for 24 years.

 

Sunghyun this is Barbara, she is a strong story teller and loves drinking tea.

She is the founder of The Design Entrepreneuring Studio and a Professor in Mechanical Engineering in Stanford University.

 

Both have a wonderful day.

Thank you.

From Shawn.
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Thanks for the intro., Shawn.  Sorry for the belated response, as I was on my vacation.

Hi Barbara,

Heard great things about you from Shawn.  After 8 years with Google, I am now supporting a start-up called shopkick that has been acquired by SK Group in Korea, which happened to be my first employer 24 years ago.  I am also interested in designing organizations in a way that help maximize their potential, and am majoring in Positive Org. Development at Case Western Reserve University at the moment.  

Please let me know if you are available for a quick meeting to share some of the ideas or experiences. Also, I do know that a lot of Korean entrepreneurs visit D. School, and please feel free to let me know if I can be of any help for those visitors who would like to learn HR/OD practices in Silicon Valley.

Best,

SH. 

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Hi SH~


Hello Sung. Nice to hear from you. {And, thanks for the introduction Shawn.}
Your background is fascinating.
"Positive Organization Development," sounds great...and wondering how the 'positive' part impact the courses; cases you study and the projects you proposes.
    Makes me think about how Seligman's early research on "learned helplessness" shifted to "positive psychology" and set the stage for similar applications in the field of organization development and behavior...


I would love to meet.
Might you send me some windows of time:
perhaps the first week of December or the week of Dec 7?


I will look forward to it,
~Barbara