A very interesting exercise done in the
class was that of Tower Building. One student was selected to build the tower
of small wooden cubes with the following criteria:
1) The cube should be one on top of the other.
2) The builder should use his odd hand.
3) If the tower falls, the game is over. The person can remove the blocks and start again but the tower should not fall.
The students were asked to give estimates as to how many blocks can the tower me made of. The range varied from 10-25. The builder himself had low expectations of just 10 blocks. Once the activity started, everybody started encouraging and he went on to make the tower of 18 blocks before the tower actually fell. This showed that a person is capable of doing more than what he expects if he puts his mind to it and if the audience starts expecting from him. Thin phenomenon is also referred to as The Pygmalion Effect also known as the Rosenthal Effect. It is a phenomenon in which the expectation placed upon a worker is directly proportional to the performance delivered. It is a form of self fulfilling prophecy where a false definition of a situation causes a new response from the audience and this response in turn makes the original false conception true. Henry Ford had once very aptly said, “Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, you are usually right.”
The next part of the activity involved giving the guess estimate for the no of blocks which can be put to make tower if the builder is blind folded and has 2 persons who can direct him verbally. The majority of the class decreased their estimates, 4 students maintained their previous estimates and only 1 person actually raised his estimate. Here we see that the majority of the class comes under the category of “Non- Risk Takers”. And only 1 student is in the category of Ambitious Risk taker. When this same activity was done in the other section with the builder blindfolded, he had made the tower of eighteen blocks. So the bottom line is that one should not lower his targets irrespective of the challenges. The employee is always pushed so that he achieves his goals which he sets.
Companies and Multinationals usually are run by employees who come in the last category i.e Ambitious risk takers. These people take risks and work accordingly to take the company at higher growth rate. The organization should not lower their targets. The targets should not be reduced and should be progressively increased. This is because the potential for any company is always higher than the achieved target, and in order to grow, the company has to set higher targets and achieve those gradually.
1) The cube should be one on top of the other.
2) The builder should use his odd hand.
3) If the tower falls, the game is over. The person can remove the blocks and start again but the tower should not fall.
The students were asked to give estimates as to how many blocks can the tower me made of. The range varied from 10-25. The builder himself had low expectations of just 10 blocks. Once the activity started, everybody started encouraging and he went on to make the tower of 18 blocks before the tower actually fell. This showed that a person is capable of doing more than what he expects if he puts his mind to it and if the audience starts expecting from him. Thin phenomenon is also referred to as The Pygmalion Effect also known as the Rosenthal Effect. It is a phenomenon in which the expectation placed upon a worker is directly proportional to the performance delivered. It is a form of self fulfilling prophecy where a false definition of a situation causes a new response from the audience and this response in turn makes the original false conception true. Henry Ford had once very aptly said, “Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, you are usually right.”
The next part of the activity involved giving the guess estimate for the no of blocks which can be put to make tower if the builder is blind folded and has 2 persons who can direct him verbally. The majority of the class decreased their estimates, 4 students maintained their previous estimates and only 1 person actually raised his estimate. Here we see that the majority of the class comes under the category of “Non- Risk Takers”. And only 1 student is in the category of Ambitious Risk taker. When this same activity was done in the other section with the builder blindfolded, he had made the tower of eighteen blocks. So the bottom line is that one should not lower his targets irrespective of the challenges. The employee is always pushed so that he achieves his goals which he sets.
Companies and Multinationals usually are run by employees who come in the last category i.e Ambitious risk takers. These people take risks and work accordingly to take the company at higher growth rate. The organization should not lower their targets. The targets should not be reduced and should be progressively increased. This is because the potential for any company is always higher than the achieved target, and in order to grow, the company has to set higher targets and achieve those gradually.
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