Protecting the Egg

When we found out our task, everyone in the group started to share their ideas of how they thought would be the best way to keep the egg from breaking. After jotting down the different ideas we all finally agreed on one that we felt would be the most effective.

Although we didn't know about the planning process that was later discussed in our next class, I think looking at it now we naturally ended up following most of the steps. The first thing we did is to define our objective, which was to keep the egg from breaking. Second, we looked at our resources, and came to the decision that the best thing to do was to to cut the straws in half, that way we would have more protection all around the egg. Thirdly, after jotting down the ideas that we had we looked at all of them individually and everyone gave their input on the ideas that thought would/wouldn't work. The only step that we skipped of the planning process was step 4 because we didn't really plan out and assign specific jobs. When we got our resources, people naturally found their role in the project whether it was holding the straws in place, taping them together or cutting pieces of tape and handing it to person who was actually taping the straws together. Overall I felt like our team worked very well together.

And finally the evaluation of our plan came when we dropped the egg into the basket...and unfortunately our egg ended up getting slightly cracked

Management Issue

Thankfully I don't have any management issues at my current job. However there is something that I have been dealing with in school this semester, and that is managing to work with people who have a hard time communicating and responding to emails. In one of my other classes we were all assigned to a random group for a group project. After initially exchanging emails, I took the initiative and emailed everyone the next day with a couple of ideas that I had for the project. In that email I asked everyone for their feedback, and I also specifically asked that they all at least respond and let me know if they received the email so that I know that I didn't misspell anyone's email address. Only one out of the other four members responded. During the next class I asked the other members if they received my email and they all said yes and that they just didn't get a chance or didn't have time to respond. At first I didn't think it was that much of a big deal, however the same problem has been persisting the past two weeks where some members of the group just keep ignoring our emails. We're still in the initial point of the project so for now its not too big of a deal, however it is very frustrating not be able to get everyone feedback on certain things because it is a group project that we're going to get a group grade for. And I think this could become a major issue if it keeps continuing when we get to the harder parts of the project.

A little about myself

Hello Everyone! My name is Dmitry Altshuler, I turned 21 this past June. Originally I was born in Belarus. My family and I moved to the United States in 1996. At first we lived in Brooklyn, and then a couple of years ago we moved to Staten Island, which is where I reside now.

I major in accounting, and minor in I/O psychology.