Ethical Principles

The discussions in class, I think generalized the fact that right and wrong doesn't have a definite color, nationality, sex, age, or any other descriptive category made to keep us as people apart. The examples made it clear that in any case if the individual had lacking ethical principles, trouble was the eventual follower. I would describe my set of ethical principles to be "one of old", since I learned most of my actions as well as attitudes toward certain things from my father. As a child he taught me lessons of responsibility, trust, loyalty, teamwork, as well as humility. I think each of these skills will assist in my search for a career.

Poor Communicating

While I have had plenty of jobs that could serve as great examples of poor communicating from management down to the employees, probably no instance was more costly than a moment from when I played Highschool basketball. Basically what happened was we usually would have weekly practices on Sunday mornings from 4:00 to 8 AM, but through poor communication from the head coach to the assistants the message was distorted a slight bit. Instead of relaying the message that practice would only last until 7 on that specific morning, the assistant coach told ALL of the the players that practice wouldn't START until 7. Needless to say we were ran almost to death for showing up for "practice" 3hrs late. I think the whole situation could've been solved through better communication, both by the speaker and listener.

Final Project

I found the project to be a lot of fun, even though we didn't get to pick the initial topic. The time allowed for our group to discuss and plan in class was helpful, but we did a huge amount of conversing and handling information at home through e-mail. This allowed the members in the group to work on their individual parts of the project as well as get them put together forming one assignment as the final product.