Mgt 311 Week 1 Individual Analysis

This week in class we partook in a team-building exercise in which you either try to benefit your own team, the other team, or simultaneously benefit both teams. Without going too much into it, my team tried to play nice but we ended up trying to get the other team to lose. All the other teams almost all had the same aim, but little did we know that we were not suppose to sabotage each other. Each team was suppose to help the other, but through a series of prisoner’s dilemma rounds, no one team benefitted because the game was not about one team winning, but about all teams winning.

GLOBE really reminds me that I am one individual who is part of something much greater than what I acknowledge. There is something larger than life that I do not worry about or even care to acknowledge because as a young student in college, my main concern is about me. It is about me passing a class, getting an internship, finding a job, or applying to graduate school. I am sure others are in the same predicament as I am, or even in worse conditions, but in all my self-reflection, I forget to think about the grand scheme of things. I am an individual, but I am one individual in society, and societies are what make up this planet of 6 billion people.

And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” Obviously, I have self-interests that I need to try to accomplish for my own betterment, but if my personal betterments cannot help society become enhanced, I have failed society. And I do not want to fail society, because that is also a personal failure. The team building exercise helped me realize that there will be times in life were either I or someone else will try to exploit the other, and that should not be the goal. GLOBE has reminded me that I should take more opportunities to help those around