Carnage amid Chaos, yet sweet redemption

This activity was a excellent hands on experience of as to how to handle a situation where a large group of people have to come up with a solution with certain limited resources and no particular given set of rules.

This activity by far the most important one, with our future professional careers in mind, was also by far the most difficult and for the professor the most predictable one. I on a personal basis could have predicted the ongoing action but i have to admit i was shocked as to what unfolded. Shocked not because there was something new but because each and everything thing that was expected to happen did actually take place. The confusion was indeed the usual ingredient but the girl with the good grade refusing to compromise and the guy who almost took it all apart at the last time are not your usual suspects but they were there and both at the same time. I think its easy to say that the person who came out of this the most most happy chap was the professor himself.


In terms of handling the affairs i think the class did an excellent job until the end. No one was assigned the leader yet one guy decided to step up and not only act but also got the support and response that you would expect a leader to get. It was not only him there were other "sub leaders" or managers to help him out. Almost everyone had the same agenda in mind, at least the majority did but that was undone by the fact that the acceptance of the proposal would require a 100% vote. That meant that the contradicting view of a couple of people were of huge significance. But the class as a whole should versatility and adapted to the new and changing situation and coped with it by coming with a proposal that pleased all. That was until due to a is understanding it all came apart. And this is where i think we failed, instead of getting up from the fall we lied down and accepted our fate. Which as it turned out due to one person wasn't to be. By this act that person not only take the highlight of the night and made it their own but also the credit that was to be given to the people who orchestrated the whole deal for the major part. And they have only themselves to blame as when they were required the most they gave up. Equal blame lies on my shoulders and those of the rest who just lied down and refused to struggle. In the end though we got parts of what we wanted. Why parts? Because we left it all to be done in the nick of time. And as i had mentioned befor doing things according to tthis approach leaves you neither here not there.

Me on a personal basis chose the avoidance method. Avoidance not in terms of what the professor has explained in his slides but more along the lines of sitting back, observing and learning from other peoples mistakes . And i did learn one important, amongst others, lesson. That my approach while good could have been carried out while participating and helping the group out. They say time and tide wait for no man. Indeed they don't but as long as you learn from youe mistakes there is always a second chance.