Our presentation

My group's presentation went over very well.  It was not very creative or interesting, but the content was good.  The groups ahead of us were extremely creative, and had nifty presentations.  I thought that may bite our group in the butt, but it didn't.  In hind sight, i wish our group would have brought food, but I'm probably only thinking that because I'm hungry right now.  Then again, it may have made our presentation more interesting to the class.  I also think our group should have chosen a more interesting topic.  No one really cares about accounting fraud, however, everyone cares about the NFL lockout.

Presentations

On Wednesday I thought the presentations went very well.   All the topics were very interesting and it was neat how each one used different class material to analyze their organizational problem.  I was especially interested in the Pixar Disney problem.  Prior to that class I had no idea that Disney had bought Pixar.  I thought it was nice the way Disney did not overly enforce their company culture on Pixar.  This was most prevalent in the fact that Disney did not make Pixar say have a  magical day at the end of phone conversations to customers.

The haves

We talked about the haves, the have a little but want more, and the have nots.  These groups were compared to students.  We were considered the have some but want more because we had enough money to make it to college but not enough to go to more prestigious colleges.  Those kids at the prestigious schools would be the haves then,  However, I think in reality no one is just a have, everyone always wants more.  No matter who you are, I don't think anyone can truly be satisfied with their position, there is always a new frontier to conquer in a sense.  I think when people start thinking they are haves, they stop striving for more, and in a sense stop trying.  I think it is good to be a have some but want more because there will be a constant effort put for in order to gain more.

Exercise Discussion

On Monday we discussed the exercise we did about two weeks ago.  I thought a lot of good points were brought up.  The way the exercise was run, a lot of good faith was needed on the part of each group, and in the end the bottom group had the most power.  They actually didn't really need the middle or bottom group at all.  They could have just negotiated without the top group.  I think it's a descent representation of a company.  The top group negotiates with other companies.  The middle group gets the specs from the top group and delegates to the bottom group.  This way all the bottom group has to worry about is working.  The middle group makes sure the bottom group is taken care of and the top group deals with the customers.  My only problem with the exercise is that there wasn't enough time to do everything.