TLI 11200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Thiokol, Conference Call, Airbag
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You will always participate in working groups and teams throughout your career and they will always have great triumphs and failures. Working groups: 2 or more people, interactions and deliverables produced. Team: 2 or more people, interactions and deliverables produced. Sensemaking: the process of giving meaning to experiences. Assigned task was to control and put out a forest fire. Fire gets out of hand, dodge says drop your tools and run, smokejumpers start to leave but keep their tools (that is what kept them smokejumpers, give them their occupational identity) Next he lights a circle of fire around him because of his fire knowledge, no one enters with him. Didn"t listen to the first command, weren"t going to listen to the following commands. Members of nasa, employees of morton thiokol, the public. Advocacy orientation: uses power and influence to control outcome. Inquiry orientation: ask questions, goal is to get information from everyone, make best decision possible.