Reflection: Mt. Everest Simulation

Reflection: Mt. Everest Simulation

It is a dangerous expedition to climb Mount Everest, a Herculean task for human to fight against volatile weather conditions, supplies challenges, mental and physical difficulties and dangers. Unpredictable events can strike without any warnings, complexities and disasters desperate the most experienced professional climbers in high altitude and fight for living. Death is the shadow of all adventures, during the ascending, miscommunications, faulty judgments, wrong decisions, complacency or a simple mistake can cause catastrophic consequences. In fact climbing Mount Everest cannot be completed by a single person, it is a teamwork. The individual relies on one another’s capabilities as well as cooperate and

The leadership plays a significant role in the real business world, it is the same in the Everest simulation. The team members were not familiar with each other before the professor assigned the group, and there was limited time to develop a trust relationship before the simulation. But in the process of the simulation, the team exhibited team camaraderie, friendly atmosphere, and strong bond. In the sense of that, team members rarely disagreed or being offensive; conflicts and dissent avoided by all team members implicitly. This may lead to a breakdown in critical thinking among all members. The strong team cohesiveness reduced willingness to challenge each other’s views, and this may lead to the fact of team 2’s result in the simulation. Team 2 was united on the pursuit to ascend to the top of Mount Everest, and achieve the team goal first. At the end of the simulation, one member was rescued, both team goal and individual goal were not accomplished.

As the Marathoner in the team, and an extravert and strong achiever, it is critical to share opinions and tackle on the task quickly after the instruction had been provided. With the mindset of being successfully reach the summit as a team, there was no holding back on information and was willing to sacrifice for the common goods. The challenge in the simulation for me was waiting on other participants’ information and decision, the decision process was not organized at the beginning, which caused confusion and doubts while I was processing others