Everybody needs to calm down!

Wow, that was some class. Iv'e never had in all of my academic years, including high-school, such an intense class. First of all, the situation the professor put us into, was unique by itself: we had to determine our own grade and the terms of the next exam. It started good, with less arguments and more order, but the less time we had to decide, the more the chaos grew and the students were yelling all sorts of things.
The thing that bothered me the most was the general lack of respect and that some students let their ego to interfere with their decision making. That sort of egotistical behaviour is understandable when a person is by him/herself, but when you are responsible for the group's majority common interest, you have to neglect your own ambitions and try to be part of the team, and help reaching the goal which the majority of the people in the group want. These are the attributes of a true leader, and some people did not act like that, which was very disappointing.
But I'm not guilt free. I chose the avoidance method, and I just obsereved on what is going on. This is not how a leader acts, and in the future, I need to step up for the group, instead of taking the passive path of behaviour. At the end we got our desirable result, but we can improve on how to reach the results we desire.

Interested in a job?

My problem revolves around my work. I own an online store, and in order to develop it, I need people to work for me and take off the pressure of packaging and shipping the products every day. My problem is that all of my merchandse is in my house, with all do the respect, I dont want to turn my own house to an office where people are walking back and forth all over the house. I dont want to rent an office, because phisically it will be impossible to monitor on what's going on in the office, unless I'm working on it full time, but, unfurtonately, I'm a full-time student and Ijust don't have time to deal with that. It's a very frusturating feeling when you know that you can develop your business and make more money, but little problems like that prevents that.

An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan

On the latest class assignment, the objective was to throw an egg into a garbge can, while standing on a table, with the hope that the egg wont crack. The only thing that we could've used for the egg was 8 straws and a piece of tape.
As far as difining our goal, i think my team realized that the built of the device for the egg will last only 10 minutes, so we planned in a very haste and quick manner. We also identified our resources and tried to plan in a way such that it will be used in an optimal way for the egg not to crack.
We had about three different opinios for a contraction, and in each one we described a scenario of what will happen at the moment of impact, and so we chose, as a group, the optmal scenario. Then we drew a sample of the chosen contraction and each member offered to work on a different aspect of the contraction, se we had a good teamwork and communication with each other.
I would say that our only and biggest mistake is that when we actually took a course of action and built the contraction, we didn't realize that it will be reasonable to assume that it will crack, and so we did not made any adjusments and/or corrective actions to fix it. At the end, I think that's what ultimately led to the failure in our mission goal.