We had a challenge, a mini competition so to say. But this was not about winning--it was about pushing ourselves to create the best product possible and presenting it in the nicest way with the best service we could offer. All I can say is teamwork. We only had to turn in a one-pager with the nutritional facts, price and a quick story about our product and its creation. As easy as this might seem, it was IMPOSSIBLE, because of one thing: TEAMWORK. Dividing work really is the best way to go because we all separately work on one thing and spend all our time and energy on it to achieve the best product possible. But we didn't do this for the more technical part of the challenge; we all worked on everything together and therefore the simple page we had to turn in, took us way longer to create than what it should have. I mean, looking for nutritional facts, prices, the shop and writing the story would be quick, right? Right, but only if we would have divided the work and each done a separate part. The night before the smoothie challenge, I spent almost 3 hours on Skype with Andrea trying to make the one-pager look simple and beautiful, perfecting the smoothie recipe, making a very engaging story about our product and finding the perfect location for SMOOTHIE GALAXY. By 11:30 I realized I had not yet finished annotating The Lean Startup (yes, very irresponsible of my part), and we had only accomplished 2 of the 4 things we wanted to accomplish. I very guiltily left Andrea alone to finish the one-pager and Keynote slide with the location of our smoothie stand. If we had separated all tasks into 4, we could have completed this task a lot quicker than we did. I'm still not sure who the winner of the smoothie challenge was but I learned a lesson (which I honestly thought I had already knew): when working on a team, DIVIDE AND CONQUER, not only will you be less stressed out, but you will focus your time and energy on one thing in order to achieve the best you can.
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Corey Topf
8/27/2014 12:13:00 am
I love how conversational and reflective this entry is! https://diigo.com/024fc0
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