MGT 3120: Blog Topic #8: Communicating via Blog

To tell you the truth about blogs. I hate it. I feel it's a waste of time and if you were trying to use blogs in means of communication, I rather prefer what you do in class. Getting a large group discussion is more successful compared to blogs. As you can see not much ppl reply and from the ones they do, they do it because their grade is impacted on it. The blog was annoying and time consuming. I'm rarely sitting in front of a computer unless I have to type up something, so it was uncomfortable. Rather then students repsond naturally from their interests, they probably copy pasted one entry and applied it to other blogs as well. Although your thought on the blogs was a interesting approach, in my opinion, did not work out as you hope it would. I suggest that you should keep using this blog for your other semesters. (So they can suffer what I had to go through..haha im kidding) Well you can try to give .5 extra credit per blog entry you ask of them to do. Instead of making the blogs being mandatory, make it optional and award people who put the time into it. WEll This is my last entry for this blog. Buh Bye!

Life Management

Advanced two steps
Downhill three
A typical life
Not always guaranteed.

Mixed with emotion
Confused by all the commotion
A typical day
Has already passed away.

Time flies
Got only one try
A typical life
How do we shift?

Realities clash
Personalities bash
A typical day
Our dreams seem far away.

McDonald's 4 Pickles and Non-Salted Fries Case

At first when I placed this order, the middle aged women laughed at first and pleasantly said "It will be right out shortly." Since this order was unique she had to get the order details out currently to the hamburger department and the fries department. (Department as in the location of where the food is being made.) Although the McDonald's was crowded she did her best to serve the annoying order I had placed.
The order for the non salted small fries was rather easy in my opinion. Since fries was being ordered from left to right, there were constantly new fries coming out every 5 minutes or so. The middle aged women simply just got the fries before a worker tried to salt them. The time for the fries was about 3 minutes and 20 seconds. The hamburger took 4 minutes and 18 seconds. Although I couldn’t see what was going on behind the scenes while my hamburger was being made, I did see the 4 pickles I had asked them of. The order was completed as ordered at a total of 7 minutes and 38 seconds.
I don’t know if this task involved a whole lot of management, it’s just an order of fries and a hamburger… But I guess the middle aged women did what she needed to get the job done. From what I saw she told the person handling the burgers to put 4 pickles for my order. She also told the person who was handling the fries to pack a small fries before salted, but she got the fries herself as soon as the fries came sizzling out of the oil. This would be considered a waste of time? If she was going to get the fries herself why bother to tell her co-worker not to salt them…

From a scale of 1 to 5:Order Preparation: 5
Communication: 5
Coordination: 5
Customer Service: 5

If I was brought in as a consultant to help them improve their efficiency I would recommend hiring a new person to clean and get new furniture. The seats were ripped and there were left over residue on the tables. But besides the cleaning part and the new furniture the way they handled their food was great. Just needs work on public facilities.

The Behavior DISC

I believe the test was accurate for my case. I got a Dominance as my main trait and Influence as my second highest. The result was not a shock to me because I usually try to dominate or accomplish the things I am most passionate about. I wouldn't wish I was a another type, I'm glad with who and what I am.
But in some cases the characteristic's of some people can change overtime in my opinion. Their endowment or the situation one is placed in will change any man in my opinion if their will to survive(achieve, goal, etc.) is strong.
I would assume that it would be helpful to determine people's management "type" to better understand where they are coming from. It would make the assurance or the definition of a person that much more solid. I wouldn't say this test would help during a personal interaction because your getting the live feed right in front of you. I don't know if it's just me but I can have a rough estimate of what type of person (s)he is during a conversation.

Vision? or is it Goals?

Personal or Business Goals:
Get rich before I hit 30.
Generate a tremendous cash flow where I would not have to work. (Perhaps an investment in a business or real estate.)
Help those in need after I get wealthy.
Travel the world.

Well in order to fulfill my goal, I have worked in many different fields. I have worked in a video store, a watch dial designer for company's such as Cartier Rolex etc.(still to this date, as my side job), jewelery store, real estate sales agent, and a few more I can't think of at the moment. I was trying to figure out which was the best way to generate enough cash to invest in a business or real estate where it would generate enough cash flow for me to live life freely. I guess thats everyone's goal but I take this goal very seriously. After reading "The 4-Hour Work Week" by Timothy Ferriss it all comes down to how well you manage yourself which leads to living life to it's fullest. You only live once, why not take full advantage of what this world has to offer us. Anyways, the specific action I'm willing to commit to taking privately in the near term to make my vision a reality is to be persistant with whatever I do.

The Debate.

During the back and forth debate, on how to deal with the exam and the future exam, I was hearing other people's decision out first before I said anything. According to the slide on "How people handle conflict" I would be under the Collaborating and the Compromise section.

Although I wanted the most from this chance since I performed poorly on the exam, I had to decide on what was fair and right. I wouldn't say I choose to Collaborate and Compromise, it's simply just my personality.

I think there is no other way to have everyone agree on a single decision other than the way our class handled it. Except for a one or two totally self-fish and rude people, it went pretty well. Since 100% agreement is required, everyone had to duke it out so that everyone is on the same page.

Darn Eggs.

First and foremost, our group's egg got smashed. With that said I will evaluate our groups performance.

Step 1. Define your goals and objectives Know where you want to go; understand your deadlines. Be specific enough so that you will know you have arrived when you get there and/or how far off you are along the way.

We as a group had defined the goals and objective. After everyone had imputed their thoughts and ideas we came to a conclusion on the goals and objectives.

Step 2. Determine your resources and current status vis-á-vis objectives Know where you stand in reaching the objectives from the start; identify resources, group strengths that work in your favor and group weaknesses that can hold you back.

After the group had chose an idea on how to save the egg, we then thought of what and how we were going to use the items given to us. We had chosen the smallest person in the group to drop the egg to decrease the height at which the egg would fall from. The only weakness we had as a group in my opinion was a lack of creative ideas on how to save the egg. I guess that was a weakness in every other group that cracked their egg.

Step 3. Develop several alternative strategies. Generate alternative scenarios for what may happen; identify for each scenario things that may help or hinder progress toward your objectives. Evaluate alternatives to assess strengths and weaknesses of each.

Our group had spent the majority time on this step. We took in all the possibilities of what will happen or what will not happen. All the "ifs" or "maybes" were taken into consideration. That is how the group came to choose one of the ideas.

Step 4. Make a tactical plan Choose the action alternative most likely to accomplish your objectives; describe what specifically must be done to implement this course of action; allocate jobs/roles throughout the team.

The group did not emphasize on this step. When we were given the materials, people just stated what one will do. No action was specifically assigned. If we would have assigned specific roles the goal could have been met faster and more effectively.

Step 5. Implement the plan and evaluate results. Take the planned action; measure progress toward objectives as implementation proceeds; take corrective actions and revise plan as needed.

This step was occuring throughout the project. Even if we set a certain way to reach the goal, we made minor changes along the way because of miscalculations. I would say this was one of the steps our group did well on.