Eggs-cellent Way to Plan

My team definitely had a very good idea of what the objectives where and the limitations and challenges we were to encounter. We did think through different scenarios and models with their strengths and weaknesses, but we weren't very well organized, so a very GOOD idea got away unconsidered which costed us the success. Anyways, something else was that we didn't really think about the whole task distribution thing, I think that was one of the reasons we lost time, although it was obviously not the biggest one. We came about the actual execution with very little time and a lot of crazyness. So, revising plan and reconsidering was really out of the question in our execution process. We definitely did not do a good job, but I have to say it was interesting to see our individual reactions to this stretching challenge!

a little more about .....a lot!

Well, as you all probably noticed by now from the pretty picture, I am from the Dominican Republic. I came to the U.S. two years ago, with plans of getting a degree and going back to my little, pretty island. Hopefully, I'll graduate on time and actually be able to do that soon. I don't know if you noticed but my country is indeed nice. I know I am probably ethnocentric by saying this..but IT IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!! ok..Now that I got that out of my system...I am aware that my country has problems in like almost all areas one could possibly think off: educational, health, governmental, environmental, etc. I am here in the U.S because the President of my country figured that if a good amount of dominican students (# ranging around the thousands) would go to different developed countries and get a worth while education in specificly needed fields, and go back to Dominican Republic to apply that knowledge; then the country would have a more prepared human resource to help with organizing and changing some stuff. Will see how all of that goes...ask me in about 15 years.

Team Management

This semester's management problem for me is the management of a team. I have to build a multi-talented team of leaders to creatively coordinate a Weekly General meeting of an average attendance of 60 students. This requires time commitment from everyone in the team, which is one of the problems. Including me, there are 8 team leaders. It is very challenging for all of us leaders to meet together because we each have our own schedules and other commitments to keep. It is very important that all the leaders meet together, this way everyone is on the same page ensuring the Weekly General meeting to be a success.

I had been trying to figure out what to write for this first assignment, but I am clueless! So, I decided to add a picture (above). This is from Cabeza de Toro, Republica Dominicana.