PKUAANC Career Development team proudly presents
Career Development Forum Series #5 – Organizational Savvy: A New Look at Office Politics – 9/11/10
Have you noticed that knowledge alone is not what gets you ahead in an organization? “A”s in school, while getting you into the corporate door, are not enough to keep you there or to propel you forward. To succeed in a work place, you need organizational savvy, or emotional intelligence on an organizational level, so you can move an organization forward in an appropriate direction, or gain organizational impact with integrity.
Some of us learned these skills when we learned to share with others in a school playground. However, those days are far away, and we need to play at a much more sophisticated level now. Therefore, we invite you to come to take a refresher course or to learn anew these organizations skills from the master, Mr. George Koo, a person who has crossed many cultural and career boundaries, and moves well in any organization.
Dr. Koo believes a basic characteristic necessary for personal success in Corporate America is one’s ability to interact with others spontaneously and extemporaneously. So bring your most pressing questions and be prepared for a lively give and take in a Q&A session following his prepared remarks.
Event Details:
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Speaker:
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Dr. George Koo
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Moderator:
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Elizabeth Chien-Hale
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Date:
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Sep. 11, 2010 2-4 PM
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Agenda
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2:00 – 2:30 PM: Registration & Networking
2:30 – 4:00 PM: Presentation & Q/A
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Location
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Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP
390 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301
(See directions below)
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Registration
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Due to limited seats, please use the following link to register by 9/10/2010
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Speakers’ Bio:
For the last 32 years, George has been a cross border business advisor to high tech companies based in the U.S., China, Japan or Taiwan. He currently serves as Special Advisor of Deloitte’s Chinese Services Group and is on the board of directors of Las Vegas Sands (NYSE:LVS). He continues to serve as an advisor to Dongfeng Fuji Thomson, a Sino-Japanese-American JV, which he helped form more than 20 years ago. He also serves on the board of New America Media, a non-profit, national ethnic media organization,http://
He is a member of Committee of 100, and he served as the vice chairman from 2002-06. He is also a member of Pacific Council for International Policy and a member of the China Committee of PCIP. He is an adviser of China’s Overseas Friendship Association and Chinese Enterprise Association USA.
Dr. Koo is a frequent speaker in various public forums on cross border business issues such as the basics to forming successful business alliances between Chinese and American companies. He writes for Pacific News Service (New America Media) on issues relating to Chinese Americans and to U.S.-China relations. The accumulation of his writings can be found onwww.georgekoo.blogspot.com.
He received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, all in Chemical Engineering, and lastly earned an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Directions – TOWNSEND and TOWNSEND and CREW LLP
390 Lytton Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304-1431 (650) 326-2400 voice (650) 326-2422 facsimile
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Directions from San Jose
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PKUAANC thanks Townsend and Townsend and Crew for its generosity in hosting this event.
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