Decision Making

During the class decision making exercise, Prof. gave us the 90% freedom to make our decision except a few restrictions. At the beginning, there were few people tried to speak up with some opinion, after a while, it became a mess, few people tried to speak out at the same time and shouting each other. Finally there was one classmate came out and lead the class. It became better for a while and gone wild again.

From there, I found out since Prof. gave us limited time to come out a group decision, there were people misbehavior, frustrating, shouting and there were people very clam or silent. For my opinion, I think whoever lead the group should write down ALL the opinion from the group no matter he think it works or not. Then everybody should vote and pick the top five options. But from what I observed, the people who lead the group only write down whatever they think were benefit themselves and ignore the rest. This is not the right way to be the leader or manager. You can't ignore any opinion or any person in the group or you will get skru.

At the beginning, I was compromise to get the best decision for the group interest but then there were some students tried to compete to win some option for their own interest. When Prof. told us there was one of the option that we had were hurting the class the most but since it benefit a small group of people included those who lead the class. We tried to took that out but they ignore us. At the end I had to collaborating with the leader to remove that option.

An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan

When I saw Prof. Kurpis took some straw, tape and egg into the class, I knew there were something going to happen. When he announced the project, I was wondering how could that be? I started thinking hard of how to make it happened. Finally, I had an idea. When we discussed in the group, I realized that my idea would not working same as few other classmates. There were people went to the front to check the material that we were going to get. We kept giving output and input. Finally, we all compromised for a solution.

We stared drawing plan and assigned job to each other. When we got all the material, everyone were working on the job that assigned to. There were one or two that were not sure how to complete their own job but other were helping them. We were able to complete our assignment on time.

Everyone were so excited when one of our group members dropped the egg. WE MADE IT!!! We were one of the only two teams that were able to drop the egg without breaking it. Even thought other teams think we were cheating but we followed all the guideline and able to accomplish it.