Decision Making

In the Decision making process on 10/13/10 class, we all students were a part of decision making process. In order to get a better grade, we all had to agree upon the several suggestion made by students.

In the beginning of the process, a male student came up, and tried to manage individuals ideas, but then some people started rasing their voice. eventually many studnets came up in front of the class, then it led people to diconnected with others in the communication.

I think many students had "compete to win" mode. they tried to find a best way to maximize thier benefits. I had a same mode, I tried to share my opinion but then many people came up so I could not express my thougths on the process. so I came up just only to tell the my opinion to the one who wrote the suggestion on the white board. I believe that everybody was behaving based on thier own benefit otherwise we would not get any benefits becuase of no perfect agreements.

some people who got a good score more likely had "Accomodation way" mode because they were not frustrated as much as other studnets who got lower grades.

I also found that some learders had "Compromise" mode. they tried to be mediators so at least they could get something out of the process.
   

If we decided leaders based on votes in the beginning, it would be more effiecient to control the process and maximize the output. even though we got great output in this decision making process, it would have not had same results. It was hard for all students to agree upon individual's opinion so leaders or a leading manager would have to manage the process. all studnets said that it was such a chaos because there were too many people in the front. it made people start acting for themselves but not for all students.
but we had to know that all students had to agree upon the suggestion made by individual students. In order to make the process flow, I believe that if we had a leader, we would work more effieciently   

An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan

1.which of the “Steps in the Planning Process” listed below did your team actually go through?
we went though every steps but we did not go through well. In the first step, we defined goal which was how to protect an egg by droping it from the air. In the second step, we identified our resources and knew our goal but we could not choose our group leader so it was a little bit hard to start off. In the third step, we generated 4 tpyes of scenarios. In the Forth step, we chose one by votes and we alloctaed jobs by sharing a roles as one person held an egg, two people bent straws and rest of people conect each straws with a tape.
In the fifth step, our team failed to protect an egg in the egg drop experiment. Then, we did not have a time to evaluate the result.
2. Which did you bypass?  Why?
we bypassed how to allocate a role and job because we could not choose a leader so it was hard to demand each other to do a certain thing. we could not choose a leader because we did not think that we need a leader of our group.
3. How do your evaluate your team’s ultimate performance given the effectiveness of your planning?
first of all, our team fail in the experiment. I was not satisfied with the result. It was not because of the result but becasue our team chose weak protection device by votes.
I suggested a better idea to protect an egg, but mine was not selected by our team. I suggested similar devices like they have in the video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be3s1OuEJa8
4. How could you have been more effective as a group in the planning of your task? we had to have a leader so we could perform more effecitve. also, we could shorten our time to choose a type of devices among many alternatives, so we could preview our devices in advance.

daily culture shock

I am Korean. I came to United States about four years ago. Everything was new to me, the way American speaks, talks, and thinks was different. I’d like to share one of the culture differences among many. In my country, if I have something that I have enough to share with, I used to spend it for my friends. For example, I often chew a gum. So when I bought a pack of gum, I used to give each pieces to my friends. So I thought it would be good to give a piece of gum to classmates in Unites States too. I saw one of classmates coming to me after class, so I said “Hey, would you like to have a piece of gum?” she looked surprise and answered, “I am fine, but thank you.” Then, I noticed something different in her responses. Then I was learned that it is little bit awkward to give my stuff to unfamiliar people for no reason.  

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Hi I am Yoosuk Ko.
I'm Korean and 21 year old guy.
I am studying in baruch college in NY.
I like sports. I am now falling in love with tennis.
I'm going to major in finance.
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