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.
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People are always going to act selfish and to be honest most of the time there is nothing you can do about it. The professor was obviously testing us and I think we did fairly well.
Thank you for your thoughtful analysis of the situation. In the beginning of the class, I too felt optomistic about reaching a good compromise. Unfortunately, there were the handful of students who were very dominant and tried to impose their will on the rest of the class. I kept trying to make suggestions that would benefit everyone, but it seemed like they fell on deaf ears. I finally got really upset and yelled at everybody (yes, that was me), but I felt I had no more choices in order for people to listen to me. I am sorry for that, but I felt I needed to protect the people that were to afraid to speak against the others in control of the debate. Professor Kurpis is a reasonable man and he already outlined that he would only listen to reasonable proposals. However, I think that the class activity was useful and we learned from it.
PS. Even though people can act selfish, there ARE things you can do about it. :)
the class was totally a mess, eveyone was shouting each other, and try to prove their idea. but i was gald that we still came out a good one at the end.
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