For my Organization Behavior class we had to watch any movie and look for any OB concepts in them. So I, along with my group, decided to watch the move Moneyball with Brad Pitt. Watching this movie while looking for these concepts changed the way I viewed it. The main thing that stuck out to me was that Billy Beane played to each of his player's strengths and let them know what they were. He took a team of "nobodies" and made them one of the best teams in the league.
I was thinking about this and how I could apply it to my life. I was talking with one of the guys in my group about each of our strengths and weaknesses. As we were talking we agreed that to succeed in life that it is vital to know what your own strengths and weaknesses are. If you are able to acknowledge your own weaknesses, you will be able to partner yourself with others whose skills compliments yours, making you an effective team. Evaluate yourself, ask others who know you what yours strengths and weaknesses are and analyze them. You may be surprised at what you find.
I love that movie! I remember watching it right after I took a statistics class and it gave me a whole new perspective on the characters and their goals. It's pretty cool how stories can mean totally different things to us after we've had certain experiences. It reminds me that everyone views things a little differently. We have a lot to learn from each other's insights and knowledge.
ReplyDeleteI love it when homework seems more like fun than it does like homework. I think it's interesting that when one can recognize their weaknesses and see that they have faults that they are actually generally more successful, because they realize they need other people to fill those gaps or they start to work on the weakness its self. Good insight,
ReplyDeleteYes I think it is important to know your strengths to be able to find people to help out, but I also think more than that we should focus on who we can help with our strengths. If we are always looking to use our strengths to help others then they don't have to beg others to make up for where they lack.
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