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Week 2 Q 1_Managng Virtual & Global Teams

Week 2 Q 1_Managng Virtual & Global Teams

Q After watching the barn-raising scene from the movie Witness, where a team of Amish people successfully build a barn, describe what characteristics you observed among the barn building team that made it successful.

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Working in teams and making it possible that the team reaches its goals requires two very crucial things: division of labor and allocation of resources, and a realization that everyone is on the same page and working towards the same cause. When teams work in unison then available resources become enough as evident from this scene, where humans completed the task of raising and building a barn without using any machine or other technology. Everyone had a specific role to fulfill, like the men oversaw the physical labor and the women were designated with preparing food and providing them with support when needed.