La Vida Robot Team

More Than the Sum of its Parts Team is a noun describing a number of people associated in some joint project. In other words teams are a group of people working towards one goal. All great teams require communication and need to go above and beyond and make bold steps forward. Some great teams that embody these traits are the group of teenagers from Carl Hayden High School and the Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak duo. How these teams worked together are shown in “La Vida Robot” and the biography Steve Jobs. In them Davis and Isaacson show that a strong team depends on its members to take risks and that communication is vital for a strong and effective team. In “La Vida Robot” the group of four teenagers who won the underwater robot competition made decisions other didn’t which helped them win even when they were at a disadvantage. The teens won out in mobility because they put their energy source in their vehicle the problem was, “A leak could

In the examples shown in the text they both had the teams talking with each other and most importantly arguing. There are other situations showing how they work together. In “La Vida Robot” they talk out their problems in this quote, “Now it was up to Cristian and Lorenzo to figure out what to do with the newfound resources. They spoke with Luis Aranda… The conversation resulted in Luis going to a hardware store to buy PVC pipe.” In Steve Jobs, to parallel this, the author shows them working together in this quote, “He (Jobs) peppered Wozniak with question: could the computer ever be networked? Was it possible to add a disk for memory storage?”(Isaacson 213). This shows both parties participating to make their ideas work. These questions lead to the teamwork and imagination that Apple is based on. Both these groups show how talking through a problem can make dreams come