An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan, A Sad Way to End

Our team generally did a good job during the whole process though there were a bit discussion chaos happened in between; we considered it was a part of the brain storming process. Initially, we went through the first 3 steps at the same time. We defined our goal by evaluating our test objects and their properties. We drafted two plans. Then we evaluated two plans with their scenarios to the egg case and found one of them is more likely to achieve the achieve the best result though there is still opposite opinions. Among two plans, we chose the best one by a group vote.  After that, we had a quick discussion on building method and immediately afterward we started constructing process. During the process, the whole team automatically distributed tasks among us. One delivered the tape, two and sometimes three built the egg-protector. While the rest of the team gave advises and provided necessary hand support. In conclusion, we went through all 5 steps though we did follow exact order because the time frame constrain and high team discussion flexibility within the group. Our planning process was effective because our whole constructing period did not involve much discussion rather than actions that focus on building up the device. However, we could have been done perfectly if we just had one person keep focusing on the time available through the whole planning process so that we may speed it up a bit more. The final unpleasant pitch of disqualification because of unexpected “home run” of our project presenter, depressed some of our team members, who were as well dedicated, or spend even more energy and enthusiasm to this project. Off the record, I just found our team fell into a typical ethical dilemma—what is the right thing to do? Let the late team (which is not mean to be late but because of an outlawed run back) to try their project and grant success if successful, or disqualify them because the seconds of lateness has made which according to rule, does sound correct. If it is you, how you are going to decide, do you think professor gave the right decision to this team? Right or Wrong, Make your choice.

Culture Shock 1st Round American VS Chinese

"Don't cry man, things happen..."

Before following text, I have to disclaim that I did not went back China for almost five years; therefore, I cannot assure that what I am going to write about is still the same today. When living in NY, first difference I realized is people actually say phrases like “excuse me” or “Oh, I am sorry!” when they tried to passing by you or accidentally step on your feet or small body clash. At the beginning, I felt so strange that people  frequently apologize for such small things. Because in China, the clash of bodies will be unavoidable for many situations—get on the bus, get off the bus, walking on the road, shopping in the stores, and so on. In China, people tend to careless about what happened around them as long as it’s not life threatening, invasive. For example, in China, if someone accidentally step on the other person’s foot, neither of them will even look at the other unless the force was painful or aggressive. In contrast, I saw great difference in New York. People, in general, tend to be very polite. They were going to say “excuse me” when passing by, say “I am sorry” when accidentally intruded others space. I think it can be a result of the culture difference between the US and China. A visible Chinese culture is being low profile. On the other hand, Americans like to keep personal space and maintain orderly sequence. Invisible culture of Chinese is the practice of common understanding for actions, and silence is gold while Americans culture includes individualism which highly emphasizes personal space and respect toward other individuals, therefore value polite conversations. However, it does not mean Chinese do not respect each other but the understanding of“Hey, Things happen.” therefore, between Chinese, collation of abusive language or actual fight for personal space intrusion was rare while if the same thing happened to Americans, people will consider the one who intruded and kept silence as rude and aggressive and tend to result in arguments for certain people. For example, once I was on the line to pay money in a store, an old Chinese man moved backward and step on the American old lady’s feet, the old man just had a look at lady and quickly looked away without saying anything, the American old lady was smile and been polite at the old man when he was in the store but once he left, the American lady started swearing and complaining about how rude the old man is. Guess no matter you are Chinese or American, we all got both sides, the only difference is that how and when we present it.
Oh, by the way, there is unlikely to have second round for this post.

Best and Peace.

First of all, I am mob-less. Second, I careless about what you do, but I do when you begins to do something interesting, or anything that may torch my mind (which is pretty hard to achieve since these days we already been torched too many times by the commercials.) Today's topic is "how to mange others businesses."
Managerial topics are interesting because there is "...no right or wrong but depends on situation..." ( Professor, I quoted words I heard from you though it may not be yours. Anyway, let us not fall into the dilemma of plagiarism)
Managerial study is charming in a way that people do not need to really get a right answer but one that "fit." I starts to actually mange myself from the moment I realized that I only has that four more twenty years to go while one or two of them, God forbid, are very likely to be tagged on "out of stock." Anyway, we all going to leave one day, so why not see how well we can do to put ourselves under our control...or even better, put others under our control :)


So lets stop talking about me, and..........................

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*HINT: What you do next is either you listened to me or you just intuitively obeyed what I tried to achieved... I want to play a game, either way, which way will you choose? Stay or Leave? Make your choice.