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02/13/07

Okay, so I am still trying to catch up with what is all going on and there are times where I totally misunderstand. I am working on it. But I would like to thank Nathan for whipping up that agenda. It was amazing, even when I did foul up in knowing what was going on in class. I love the idea of agendas. It brings the class together. "If ye are not one ye are not mine".

2-1-07

Well, I really like it a lot when Travis took over the class and did not waste a minute. It felt productive and like we were going somewhere. I also liked how Bro. Adams gave us a very clear idea of what we need to do for the Firm. Yet I can't wait to get things started for our group and when we can get mission statments established for each part of the firm so we can start to move somewhere.

1-30-07

Okay this class was way exciting! I was so happy to hear that we were getting started in our groups.
Anyways, what I learned this class period on how important it is to have a Divine Center in my life. If I put my Heavenly Father and His Son in the center of my life, all other things like school, homework and other life demanding activities will fall into place.
Oh and back to my tangent on how excited I am in starting our group. Well, as my group and I discussed on what we should do we all emphasized the importance that we do not try to out-do any other group in our firm or we will just fall apart. So as the organization group we are planning to help the other groups figure out what they are doing.

The Final Columbia Mission

In the past few class of Intro. to Organizational Comm. I have been on the Organizational Team that has been studying a Harvard Case Study about NASA and "Columbia's Final Mission". From the organizational perspective there were two main things (well maybe a lot but I can’t go into all of them) wrong that lead to the end of Columbia and its passengers.First of all, in the NASA organization was based on a hierarchy in a sense that all the “lowly subjects” were too scared to speak out against any mistakes of their superiors and it the lowly one did speak up, then they were snapped back in line or disregarded by the authorities. So an example would be the foam that would strike the ship at lift off. When someone said it was a problem their opinion, over time, slowly disregarded and nobody cared because nothing happened. So there was a huge portion of communication that could have stalled a lot of heartache. Nevertheless, the small opinion was thought worthless until it was too late.Second, there was the fact that people were too concerned with their reputation that the life of others was not even a part of thought in their mind. An example of this is when, the head Ham wanted to have everything on time and when there was a reported problem she didn’t care because if the mission was stalled she would be looked down upon so she just brushed the inconvenience under the rug.Because was the lack of getting the info. to the right person and who would disregard it and the lack of worry about other people in the organization, these components added to the disaster of the Columbia.

Okay, so this may look like a mess but I promise it will make sense if you read my bit of Yada Yada.

Why the Columbia disaster?

Well, to give an explanation of this pic I'll go from bottom to top. The blue squares at the bottom of the pic represent the small individual departments of NASA. The orange dots in the squares are bits of info. that each department contributes to the organization. Now the yellow lines are ways that the smaller departments talk to their managers in NASA which is the big massive glob that is hovering over the little departments. There is some definition of shapes but nothing is really for certain in that area.

If you draw your attention to the yellow lines there is really no rhyme or reason to the direction of those lines. Because there is no definition of where info. should go, that is why the Columbia disaster happened.

Okay now I am getting ahead of myself. Back to the drawing. Okay so the big glob is management and the big red triangle shape is the head dude of NASA.

I forgot to mention the big black spots and black lines that are following the communication lines. Those represent problems that were never taken care of because someone along the communication line did not think that info was important so thus the problem was never fixed. That is another reason why the disaster happened.

I hope it all made sense so if it didn't ask me -k-.

Adhoc/racy

1) When in an organization we need to share our info. so that in the organizaton everyone can share our talents with other to compensate for other weaknesses to make a company grow.
2) Adhoc/racy- people who need to move fluidity throught projects.
3) The Lord will take the slums out of people and then the people will take themselves out of the slums. When we help people to become better we need to start from the inside out