Organizational Culture and Managing People

It was very interesting to look at the organizational culture of my company.  Perception is always a difficult thing.  I have only worked there for a little over a year and could easily see when I started there the problems and the unhappiness in some of my co-workers.  However, there has been a change in management recently and even during this short week of absence, our new manager has taken significant strides in correcting the issues that we were experiencing especially in the arena of socialization.  He replaced HP with another outsourcing company, but the scope and framework will be totally different from what had been implemented in the past.
 

My most favorite discussion or class was in regards to motivation. The story about the climb to Mt. Everest will probably be one of things that I will actually remember and talk about for years to come outside of GA Tech. I think that it was a strong piece in how to motivate someone, think of the entire team, to have one common goal, and most important to be selfless.  It is key to understand also what we as managers or team players are doing to be motivating.  I found some important things about flaws in how I can communicate, which is something  that will help me to grow going forward because I was failing to fully articulate my ideas.