Thursday, January 25, 2007
The People
Today we were put in our groups that we chose on Tuesday. In my group, the people. In the discussion we went through a questionnaire on a Practice Management Analysis. In this, from our people perspective, we rated it on the Colombia case study. Furthermore, in our discussion we made a visual on the people perspective which portrayed great employees but no room to expand their thoughts and ideas. Many things were not updated in the company which then made it the way it was. I learned that the in the case study they did not work as a team and were not expanding their thoughts with their fellow employees. The team was scattered like peas out of a pod and wanting "their piece of the pie" therefore being greedy and withholding information. I also learned through others' visuals about the market, technology, organizations, and capital perspective. They demonstrated the actions that took place in the case study. It is unfortunate when NASA may have had quite a few great employees that did not share with one another their knowledge which, therefore, crashed the whole deal and came to a horrible ending. I also learned in class that a company can not just function solo to it's full potential. It needs all of its components to work as a whole, and be able to use all the brilliant minds.
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I enjoyed your artwork. The peas in and outside of the pod was a nice touch. It really drove home the point for me. The employees with their mouths stitched shut was a little fightening, and I think I might have nightmares for quite some time. The entire NASA/Columbia incident is pretty sad. Goes to show how important communication is.
See Abby there are 2 kinds of team players. On one hand you have people who say "There is no 'I' in team" and on the other hand you have the smart alec who says, "there is no 'I' but there is a 'ME'. Well my hat is off to the cleaverness of such a response but shake my head at that individualistic, selfish if you will, thinking. This barbaric thinking style of "I have to get my piece of the pie before you do" is just so sickening. Why can't we just hold hands, sing koom by ya, and be happy? OR Elevate our thinking in realizing that there is a lot of pie to go around. ALso realize the little people might also know what they are talking about. Ya that's about it.
I agree with what your saying. In something as big as NASA I can see how it’s a challenge to work as a whole, but in order for success, they have to find a way. In any organization if everyone is not working towards a common goal disaster happens.
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