mercoledì 18 febbraio 2009

LPG Assignment

As a part of our Leading People & Groups course, we had to write an individual assignment about the "your feelings, thoughts and hypotheses about the development of your group, and the role you have taken in it".
Well, while for some people writing 2000 words on this argument was scary, for me was eventually an opportunity to write my TRUE opinion about this crazy model of group work, and I had sooo many things to say! (Just curious to see how will they grade me)
Here is the first paragraph of my paper:
"An INSEAD group is something very unlikely to experiment outside the MBA environment. Most of the INSEAD life is like living in a bubble. We are all in the middle of a forest, with almost no interaction outside our own community, living in a style of life to which nobody of us was used to.
In an INSEAD group you cannot choose your team members. In most of the real-world situations you have some freedom to choose. You choose your own friends, you choose you go in vacation with.
Nonetheless, there are also real-world situations in which you cannot choose your team members. This can happen in the work environment, for example. However, there is a big difference between the INSEAD group and the team interactions at job: in the working environment you always have a leader.
This has been one of the things that frustrated me more since the beginning. I had to meet with 4 people which I had not chosen, with no appointed leader, and we had to do something. When at job you disagree with something, you have always someone to escalate the issue to. Here you have not. You have to resolve the problem by yourself. Well, I am sure that this is the reason why INSEAD groups are structured in this way. The school objective is probably to make us growth with these interactions. But up to now, I have not really seen how this surreal interactions can actually teach something that can be applied in the outside world. [....] "

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