LE04&05

Humangous Tower

IM19 Class Excercise

FYI, the above is not an act of photoshop. This is something that actually happened in my class.
You guys must be pitying the guy at the bottom right?

Well, that's the whole point of this exercise and it's to show that the weight is divided equally among all the people. The purpose of this exercise?????????

The purpose is to show that even in an organization the weight is similarly divided among everyone equally. So all those times I used to see my friends cribbing over a lot of work at office, it seems there managers weren't effective enough and didn't distribute the work equally among everyone. This is the primary reason why most employees quit because of stress and huge workload while some others enjoy. So clearly for an organization to succeed a manager needs to be good and should be able to analyse the amount of work to be given to each and everyone. Also, one more thing that can be seen from the above pic is that if one of the guys at the bottom falters then the ones above him would fall.So here's where comes the team work, if one fails then the whole project will fail. So it's necessary that the whole unit works together as a team.

Another critical point as observed from the above pic is that if the bottommost guy falters then the whole tower will fall. And this, we have all experienced numerous times in Manufacturing plants or any poroduction unit during strikes the whole company comes to a standstill. Here the workers or labourers form the bottommost part of the pyramid.

Now comes the main point TEAMWORK.
Quoting Michael Jordan,"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."


The picture alongside shows three guys holding a pole and walking. The purpose of this exercise is that they are eventually required to cross a valley(imaginary) one here.
How will they accomplish this?
The answer for this has already been mentioned, TEAMWORK.

The process for the same has been shown below:

As can be seen in the diagram alongside, while one person is crossing the valley the other two have to support him. For doing this successfully what is important is a that there should be atleast 3 people and the distance between them should be greater than the distance of the valley they are expected to cross.

During my High School, I was told about a couple of my seniors who exhibited the same attribute as is shown in the diagram alongside. There were 4 best friends and after their engineering each of them wanted to pursue higher studies but none had enough money to finance one on their own so they all decided to work for some time and then go one by one i.e. one of them went abroad from the money saved by all of them initially and while he was pursuing his masters the other three worked and sent one more guy abroad with the money saved between them. Now the other two who were working in India also went after a while with the money they had and the money from the first guy who had finished his graduation and started earning abroad. So this way each of them helped each other succeed. Now, this was the incident narrated to me by my teacher. I'm not sure about the authenticity of the data but nonetheless I want to believe it to be true.

The above task portrayed some more points:

1. The execution of the task has to be laid down clearly so that they execute it well.
2. Everyone was not limited to one role, rather they were expected to be adept in performing all the roles.
3. Proper training has to be given so that they are competent enough to handle the task. 
4. Interdependence in the team i.e. every person in the team relies on the other to finish the job properly.
5. And as discussed at the beginning of this blog this shows the distribution of load as well.

Thus, for the success of any organization Team work is of utmost importance along with a good manager who knows how to distribute the load so that no one feels overloaded.