The one with the 3 idiots

  

Dr .Mandi illustrated to us the importance and the dynamics involved in team work and management of tasks with the help of the given problem and as it was carried out in the class practically by students.

             1) Three people need to cross a deep "valley".

             2) The distance between edges is more than one step but less than two steps.

             3) The only item they have with them is a small thick pole/stick.

In the given exercise, each person faces 3 states of riskiness:

          (a) Safe

          (b) Half Safe/ Half Risky

          (c) Risky

Using these states of Risk we can define the various ROLES in this exercise:

Category of tasks	Role Definition
Safe	No Effort.
Half safe	Slight Effort.
Hanging & Unsafe	No Effort; Depends on other members.
Fulcrum & Half safe	Effort is needed to maintain fulcrum ; Depends on others.
Pull down	Most Effort; Others depend on you.

Above it is observed how the risk has been equally distributed amongst the 3 members of the team.

                                              

Commonalities:

1) Trust on the team and self: The entire task is dependent on trust. The ideal line of thought in this case should be “I am the part of the team, so trust amongst the members is MY RESPONSIBILITY"

2)  Discipline: It’s very important that the team walks on the same bit. Everyone should have a same rate of walking with each step taken at the same time. A quintessentially military practice of shouting LEFT-RIGHT might come to good use for this purpose.

The major learning that comes out of this experience is that it does not matter whether you are strong or week. In a team everyone has equal responsibility and no one can take the complete team along. 

At Reliance, the whole team takes decisions as it is by defaults made the joint owner of a production facility and it is in unison that all decisions are taken and are synchronized amongst the team members, who take upon each task to their best and execute it in tandem. Tasks are divided into the team and when one member is overburdened the other taken on, there is an overall synchronization.