Sunday 7 July 2013

Tower building - What's there to learn!

It ain't no real tower! As Dr. Mandi has this knack of imparting knowledge through his unique ways, we were asked to make the tallest structure possible with wooden cubes. And let me tell you it's not as easy as it sounds.

The objective of the session was to learn modern management and differentiate between traditional way of managing the things and modern way of managing the things.


The task of tower building was performed in two ways:

1. A single person made the tower
2. A blindfolded person working in a team of 7, six of which were helping him, made the tower.

Astonishing as it may sound, the team of seven made the taller structure despite the fact that person making the tower was blindfolded and he did it with the instructions given by his team members.
What's here to learn pertaining to management :

This task clearly differentiates between traditional and modern way of doing things. The first team is a prototype for traditional management, where the expert like to do the things individually. The second team is a prototype for modern management , where we segregate the responsibilities to different person.
We can say that modern management i.e segregating the responsibilities leads to higher productivity.

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