Wed

I don't know what we are exactly supposed to blog about. The presentations went well. The group that gave out cookies was my personal favorite due to obvious reasons.

Presentation on Monday

I felt that our presentation went well. The only thing I would do different is stand in a different spot. After i gave my part in the presentation i got stuck in the corner and I could not get out. That was a tight spot. 

Power

Last class we talked about what gives a person power and what types of power someone can wield. When we were discussing it, i thought back to last summer when I was a camp counselor. I started to think what kind of power I had over the young kids I was put in charge of. I definitely had legitimate power over the kids due to my position but some of the  kids usually did not notice that. So i had to rely on Coercive power. If a kid continued to misbehave, I had the power to apply punishment (it usually was a timeout, a talk with my boss, decrease in pool time, or no seconds for lunch). Thinking back i had to really on this power a lot for some of them.  I also had a co-counselor. It was his first year and he generally followed my lead because I had more experience working there. I held expert power power over him even though by the third week of so he became used to the way things were run, so by then my expert power became almost obsolete.

Simulation revisited

On Monday we discussed what had a occurred during the exercise. During the class everyone played the blame game and other people had no idea what had happened. The top group was mad at everyone else and thought they did a pretty good job. Being from the bottom group, their management skills were not that good. They probably did an equal amount of work as everybody else but they had a lot more time to work while the bottom had a limited amout of time to do work plus they were not very clear with their proposal on pay. And I did not realize that they got a stack of goat bucks at the beginning, I wonder how many were in the stack?

Dr. Goates's theory of why some student go against the system was interesting. Students who get good grades will go with the flow while students with worse grades will stray from the path.

Made to Stick: Booke report 5

In the last Section of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, the authors take all the parts in the last chapters and put it all together for the reader. They take the main idea of each chapter tell the reader how to use all of these together to make an idea stick. These five things are Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Story. These five things are very important in creating an idea, without one of these elements the whole idea could fail in some way.

            In this section the authors talk about “villains” that can destroy an idea. One villain is focusing on the speaker more than the message. Know that it is still beneficial to be a good charismatic speaker but the listener has to forget about how well the speaker is doing and needs to focus on the message. The next villain is the Curse of knowledge. When someone tries to speak they tend to communicate as if the audience is themselves. Getting past the curse of knowledge is important in all aspects of organizational behavior. If a manager is trying to communicate with one of the people he/she is in charge of and the manager has several more years of experience, he/she is going to have to put themselves in the shoes of the listener. If the manager does not do this than the message he or she is conveying will be lost and the problem will be right back to square one. Another example is if a CEO tells the company’s employees that their job is to “maximize shareholder value”. Now to the CEO that makes perfect sense but to a simple employee that idea is way too abstract. It is important to observe the world around you because it holds more sticky ideas than a single creative person. The next villain is decision paralysis. This can affect anyone in almost all aspects of organizational behavior. When giving information it important to make your idea more precise by stressing a couple main ideas instead of touching on several ideas. A lawyer will do this during the closing arguments. Instead of stressing ten arguments, the lawyer needs to only focus on the strongest couple of ones.

            It takes time to master these five things so you can avoid the “villains”. Using this SUCCES strategy will make ideas stickier. Keeping idea simple and to the core will make the idea more understandable. Making your presentation of the idea unexpected will keep the audience’s attention.  Making your idea concrete will allow the listener to easily picture what you are saying and it keeps an idea from being abstract. You may be an expert but the people in your audience are not. Make sure your information to support your idea comes from a credible source or your audience will be less inclined to believe and accept your idea. Keep your message emotional; make the audience care about your idea. Finally surround your idea in a story; it will keep your listeners attention and will be easier to convey your idea. Using these five ways to make idea sticky can be used in all aspects of a person’s daily life.

Class and Goat Bucks

So class on Monday was more or lees confusing and annoying. I was in one of the bottom groups and for the first half hour we just sat in the dark basement waiting to be contacted. My group and another group were tired of waiting so we sought out our middle level adviser. When we eventually found her she was waiting for the level above her to give her information so we left without learning anything.

When we eventually got the information we needed which was about 20 mins before the end of class we felt rushed frustrated and confused and when we finally finished with ten minutes left the top level had all the slogans they needed and were on there way to meet with the other group (I don't remember their name but they were the ones in charge of giving out the goat bucks). I was a little agitated but my one member in my team was furious so he decided take the several slogans we had made and decided to bypass the upper levels and sell to the other group directly.

We sold our slogans at a cheaper price than the top level slogans and mad out with seven bucks total we split it up as evenly as we could with our middle level supervisor then we left. I ended making two goat bucks and i hope everyone in the class got at least one, if you did not get one I will happily give you one.

Made to stick: Why some ideas survive and others die. report 4

            In the next two chapters of the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, the authors explain two more aspects to making your ideas stickier. These two aspects are emotion and stories. Adding these two things two the rest of the book can help your ideas to stick.

            The authors go to explain what the word “emotion” means in the context of making one’s ideas more likely to stick: it means getting people to care for your idea or cause. The authors use a test done on several people to elaborate their message. The test subjects were separated into two groups and were given an irrelevant test and for their participation they were given five dollars in one dollar bills. Before they were able to leave they were given a brown envelope from a charity organization. Each group’s envelope was from the same charity but the way the message was delivered differed from the two groups. Group one’s message was presented with a lot of facts and statistics while the second group was given a picture of a little girl and an explanation how their money can help little children like her get food. The testers then averaged out each group’s own average of donations. Groups one’s average was $1.18 but group two’s average was $2.48. Once you get emotions involved in your message than your idea is more likely to stick and you’re more likely to get a better response from your audience. The authors then reference Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how this can help with getting people to care. He then uses an example to show how to use Maslow’s triangle to motivate or get people to care about something. A company wants to tell its employees that is offering a one thousand dollar bonus if they meet performance targets. In doing this the company hopes that this will increase worker productivity. There are three ways the company can present this; the first two involve spending that extra thousand dollars on some material object and saving it for future use. The third way is to tell its employees that this $1000 means that the company values you as an asset to the company and recognizes your job performance. Most people who answered this question picked the third way. By doing this a company positively affects the employee’s self-esteem which is higher on Maslow’s triangle than the physical reward promised in the first two ways.  But when asked the question in reverse; what do you think someone else would prefer to hear? Most people chose the first way. Many people feel that they are motivate by self-esteem while others are motivated by down payments. The third way invokes emotion into the employee while the other two are analytical and invoke little to no emotion (plus they are also pretty obvious) into the person which cause them to care less.

            The next aspect the authors talked about is using stories to get an idea to stick. The authors used examples to explain how stories surround a central idea that is easily sticks to the mind of the listener. In class we read an article about the nacirema people which talked about their strange culture with plenty of descriptive examples. Then after you read it you find out that this article is actually critiquing American culture (nacirema spelled backwards in American). The main idea of the article is that American culture is very strange once you take a step back from it and look at it from the outside.  The author covered his main idea in a story that stuck in the readers mind. This is a prime example that shows how an idea embedded in a story is a great way to transmit and idea.

            The authors show how these two stratagies can make people care about an idea and how to make an idea easy to listen to. Using emotion and stories and help make your ideas stick.

Magic Cable

After reading and discussing this article I came to the conclusion that Roberts is never satisfied. It seems he stays at a place for a little while than he finds something to complain about and if something grinds his gears he will try to argue with the upper staff once and if he does not succeed he moves on in hope of finding perfect job. It is understandable in his last job where his pay was essentially cut in half. He has the right to try and fight it but he yells at his boss then leaves.

We discussed what factors of motivation force him to change jobs and we figure out that his work never holds any satisfaction for him. The only reason he stays at these place is that he is never dissatisfied. If one factor changes for the worse he gets up and leaves.

Doctors

In class on Monday we discussed what motivates doctors to make the decision if a person is sick or not. Basically there are two types or errors the first error Is telling someone that they are well but in fact they are actually sick. Error two involves telling a well person that they are actually sick. In the world that the author describes doctors are more inclined to tell a person that they are sick because there is larger penalty if a doctor commits the first error. It's pretty easy to see the problem with this scenario.

One might think at first glance that the first error is worse so it deserves  a larger punishment and in most cases it might be proven right. But as we discussed in class error 2 can be just as devastating. A great example is diagnosing a person with cancer when they do not have it. The treatment for cancer is just as terrifying as actually getting cancer and many people with cancer will usually avoid the treatment and Dr. Goates example also proves that an error 2 can be just as bad as error 1.

A simple start to  fixing this problem is my making the penalties equal or coming up with a new system in which punishments are based on the damage to the patient.

Maslow's Hierarchy of needs

His theory is a good start to trying to figure out what motivates people but as we discussed in class this theory doesn't apply to everyone and there are very large exceptions to his theory like the parents giving all of their food to their kids instead of eating themselves. According to his theory eating is a primal need and must be satisfied, but the parents choose to ignore this and satisfy their loving and belonging needs. This one example goes against everything in his theory.

Education system

Last class we discussed the problems with rewarding teachers for their teaching. Doing this can cause more bad than good. Teachers can try to cheat the system by boosting their students grades by giving them easy tests and other things. There was already a study in Chicago that around 5% of the teachers "helped" their students improve their grades on the standardized tests.

We also learned in class that you can't motivate someone using just money because people are more complicated than that. Employers  need to find other means to motivate their workers other than throwing money at them. Doing this too much can often lead to a decrease in motivation and even lead to unethical behavior.

Truth is, money is important to everyone but people need more than that to be motivated.

Book Report 3: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

In these two sections of the Book “Made to Stick Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.” The authors explained how and why to make an idea concrete and credible.

            The first aspect they talk about is concreteness. To make an idea stick one must not talk about the idea in the abstract and instead make a n idea solid and concrete, so the listener can picture it in his or her mind. The used several examples in the book to explain this aspect. One of them involved a fictional manufacturing company. There are engineers and manufactures working there. It is up to the engineers to make blueprints of the product and it is up to the manufactures to put it together. When there is a problem putting the product together (like if a bolt or screw does not fit properly with the engineers design), the manufactures complain to the engineers that there is something wrong with their design. In response the engineers would add more to the blueprint to show where this piece goes, but all of this scribbling is just nonsense to the manufactures. The manufactures just want the engineer to come down to the floor to physically show where it goes. As one can see the problem with the situation is that the engineers are thinking abstractly while the manufactures can only understand concreteness.  In a small group it is important to always speak in the concrete so no miscommunication occurs. One can also look at Walmart’s new uniform change to show this aspect of making an idea sticky. They want to tell everybody that they are no longer the lowest quality discount store and that now they are on the level of Target and other stores like Target. Walmart can say whatever it wants but that does not mean people are going to believe it. So Walmart is upgrading their uniforms to show everybody that their declaration is happening and you can see it.  These uniforms also emphasize their idea of offering friendly customer service. The idea itself is very abstract and simply stating that will mean almost nothing. These uniforms are the physical representation of that idea. The colors on the uniform look friendly (nice bright colors) and the new uniforms show the professionalism of the person wearing the uniform.

            The next aspect in making an idea sticky is credibility. The person conveying the idea must seem credible to the listeners to make an idea stick. Listeners are more apt to believe an idea if an expert or someone greatly affected by the idea tells them. One of the examples in the book show how a small team of researchers can be right but without credibility one’s idea will not stick. This group of interns working at a medical form discovered strange bacteria in stomach ulcers. They filed their discovery but no one believed them because they were nobodies. Feeling frustrated and angry the leader swallowed a whole jar of these bacteria. Soon after he did that his stomach soon became inflamed and red. He them took antibiotics and he better relatively quickly. A mare credible doctor saw these findings and with his credibility they were able to prove a direct link with stomach ulcers and this strange bacteria. In a small group it important to get credible sources so the small group’s information is believable.

            While presenting an idea it is important to make sure that one’s idea is concrete and that it comes from a credible source. Without these two things an idea will not stick.

Nacirema people

On Monday we discussed the article about the Nacirema people and their culture. While reading the article you think to yourself that this culture is very strange until you realize that Nacirema is American spelled backwards and this article is talking about our culture. By wording the articles in a way, he made american culture seem alien and strange. I admit i was fooled and did catch on that the article was about us until class on Monday. This article showed an outside perspective on american life and beliefs. The holy mouth men section really got me. It seemed strange the way the author described them and how Americans really put a value on clean teeth. It made me realize how much of an effort we put into keeping good hygiene.

Employees and their uniforms

The current Walmart uniforms (if they can be called uniforms) were determined to be "sucky" during class on Wednesday. I think the purpose of Walmart uniforms is mainly for the customers. A nice uniform provides the look of professionalism to the customers. But of course the uniforms can't be too intimidating or give off a sense of smugness. The employees must be approachable but also look like they know what they are doing. The proposed uniforms do just that. The new uniforms give off that sense of professionalism which directly affects the atmosphere of the store.

The uniforms must also appeal to the employees as well. The uniforms must be be comfortable so the employees can remain focused on their work and less on their attire. It is also important for the uniform to look professional enough to make their job feel more important. Doing this has the potential of increasing one's work output.

Decision making quiz

That quiz we took on Monday was difficult to say the least, it really mad you think. I am glad Dr. Goates did not grade the quiz because I would have failed for sure. The test gave us these common sense questions that went against or with our thought processes depending on who you are. After the test we learned about all of our biases that affect us everyday. Our brain takes past experiences and using them to solve future problems. This is great if the experience is the same but I personally found it annoying. After reading the questions I often found myself second guessing myself. Theses biases are called heuristics.

I found myself falling into each heuristic based trap. These can help you but they can also hurt you.

Made to stick: Why some ideas survive and others die. report 2

                In chapters one and two of Made to Stick: Why some ideas survive  and others die, the authors elaborate on the introduction and talk about two things that are necessary to make ideas stick. You have to keep your ideas simple and unexpected. When conveying an idea or message you have to keep it simple and straight to the point. When you convey an idea to someone you have to make sure it is understandable to the listener. The authors give an example using a pomelo. The pomelo is a large citrus fruit. The rind is very thick, the fruit has a light yellow to coral pink flesh, and it can taste seductively spicy-sweet to tangy and tart. One the authors supplied this explanation of a pomelo they asked the reader a follow up question. That question is; if you mixed pomelo juice half and half with orange juice, would it taste good. You could venture a guess but you would not be too sure. They then go to an alternate explanation of a pomelo and here it is. A pomelo is basically a supersized grapefruit. They have made it easier for you to learn a new concept by tying it to an old concept the grapefruit. If you are conveying a message it’s easier for a listener to understand what you are conveying if you relate it to something they already know.

                This can be critical in negotiations or when working in groups. It is important to keep your ideas and explanations as simple and understandable as possible. That does not mean you should treat your listeners as morons. Just communicate to core or your idea and let is flower and expand. Making your idea simple allows for better communication and it give your idea a better chance of sticking with people.

                An idea must also be unexpected. It must go against rational thinking but also be rational. You want to surprise a person’s natural thought process. Humans are attracted to out of the ordinary things. Your mind will fixate on these things. Examples are red warning lights that you can see just everywhere and police sirens. These things are supposed to grab a person’s attention and hold it. The authors grabbed an example on of them heard on an airline. Almost everyone knows the whole safety speech given by one of the attendants on the plane. Most people tune it out when they are on a plane because they have heard it so many times before. This airline attendant gave that speech in a comical fashion. She integrated jokes into the safety lecture and when she was done everyone applauded. She took this old idea, which is to supply the passengers with the necessary information, and revamped it in a creative and unexpected way.

                This can be related to our first case analysis. The company needed something to make their product stand out even though it was the same quality as other competitors’ products. The team took the old product and completely revamped it and it was a hit. To make an idea it has to be unexpected. If you’re working with a group and you are competing with another group you must find an unexpected way to present your idea so it will stand out.

                These two strategies are necessary for an idea to stick. An idea must remain simple and to the core. An idea must also be unexpected. This surprises people and gives the idea a better chance of sticking. Just think of any commercials that you have seen that have really stuck with you. It is necessary to use these two strategies when presenting an idea no matter where you are.

Three Approaches to Resolving Disputes

In last class we discussed the article Three Approaches to Resolving Disputes. There also was a live performance of one of the examples in the article. The example was two people are fighting over their last orange. What should they do. The author goes on to discuss what the right and sensible option is. A normal person might think that the orange should be cut in half and shared with the two, even though that answer may make sense until you figure out what the two need the orange for. One just wants the rind to add to his cake while the other just wants the orange to make juice. Looking at the interests shows how each person can be satisfied and how the solution can turn into a win/win. 


The author goes on discuss three ways to resolve disputes. You look at a problem to see who has the most power, who is right, and what are the interests of the parties. Looking to see who has the most power can be tricky like the example with the foreman and his employee. If you try to determine who has the rights, you often can see each party has the right for whatever like the example with Egypt and Israel. It is often best to look at the parties interests. If base your solution around the interests than the different parties involved are more likely to be satisfied with the solution.

Negotiating

After reading the article for class I did not realize how complicated the art of negotiating is. There are several different strategies for different scenarios. I guess it takes time and practice to master. I think the best pointer he gave us for proper negotiating is to always make it seem that you are ready to walk out at any moment. This technique will give the advantage in a negotiating.

Today in class I was hoping I could test out a few strategies in class, but my partner did not really put up a fight when negotiating. It felt like a hollow victory. I gotta good deal but I wish my partner would have put up more of a fight.

The Prisoner dilemma Game

Class on Monday was very interesting. I can understand why that Nash guy went nuts working on that problem. I learned that there are no winners in that game unless you the person who back stabs the other person. It seems like such a simple problem first time looking at it but you makes your head spin in circles as you try to find the best answer for yourself and trying to find out what the other person is thinking. If both parties could communicate it's much easier to come to a decision. That is what the activity showed us. But it also showed that you can't trust people especially if cannot communicate with them and even when you do communicate all of your negotiations and deals are thrown out the window when it comes down to the last round. 

This whole activity made me think if it is part of human nature to not trust people and to stomp on others for personal gain.

Made to stick: Why some ideas survive and others die. report 1

The main purpose of the book, Made to stick: Why some ideas survive and others die, is too teach the reader how to make ideas stick using the six principles of successful ideas. The six principles given are: Simplicity, Unexpectedness, Concreteness, Credibility, Emotions, and Stories. Coincidently these six ideas form the acronym SUCCESs. They use four different examples in the introduction to explain these principles. Three of them are examples how ideas can effective and the other one shows how an idea can fail. The first one is The Kidney heist urban legend. If you don’t know it, here it is. A friend of a friend is offered a drink by a fairly attractive woman, then he wakes up in a tub full of ice, he can’t remember how he got there, and one of his kidneys are gone. The idea is simple and there are many versions of this story but they are all the same once you get to the core of the story. It’s a simple idea, the story has a twist, it in invokes concrete images, your friend has to be at least a little credible, the story causes fear, and it’s got a story behind the idea not to accept drinks from total strangers. The author uses the other two stories in a similar way.

            The authors also describe two different tests that were performed. The first test involved “tappers” and “listeners”. Several people were given the job of tapping out a popular song like happy birthday and the star spangled banner and they could not tell them anything about the song that they are tapping. It was up to the listeners to pick out the song that the tappers were tapping. The results were surprising. The listeners were right only 4% of the time. The answer for the results is kind of interesting. It was easy for the tappers to tell what the song is because it is in there head while the listeners have the disadvantage of not knowing what the song is.  The listeners were not able to distinguish the taps of the different songs. This test also shows how poor communication skills can hinder performance of a team or group. They describe this as the curse of knowledge and compare the tappers and listeners as a CEO and Frontline employees. These two groups have to communicate with each other but there is an imbalance of information. What makes sense to one person might seem pointless and boring to another because the second person lacks the information to understand the problem. The authors state that the six principles are your best weapon to defeat the curse of knowledge. 

            The second test was conducted by an Israeli research team in 1999. They assembled a group of random people and separated them into three smaller groups. Their job was to create ads for three products: shampoo, a diet-food item, and a sneaker. The ads would be tested by consumers. The first group was given background information on the products, the second group wa trained for two hours by an experienced creativity instructor, and the third group was given both the information and the training. Obviously the third group’s ads tested the most positive but the first group’s ads were tested the least positive. This test showed that the best group knows information but more importantly, they are trained and have experience. In the first case analysis the group was both experienced and creative, that is why they were very successful.

Commities, Juries, and Teams:

This article both enlightened me and also disturbed me. It talks about how some teams come to decisions even before looking at the evidence in front of them. The analogy with the two types of juries were interesting. One type looks at the evidence and discusses it while the other type comes up with a verdict then tries to convince everybody that their decision is the right one. The MMT in the article would be considered the second type. The leader of it already made his decision even before the "team" discussed it. He shot down anyone who tried to throw in another opinion. He kept going back to the saying "If something is wrong, there is nothing we can do anyway." That really bothered me. The Team did not even try.

The author explained this by explaining how a person interacts with a crowd. If people remain indecisive in their opinion, they will tend to sway with the majority. People in the "team" should have tried harder to to speak up. If thee had, that whole disaster with the space shuttle Columbia could have been avoided.

Class on Tuesday: Carter racing

That activity was tougher than anticipated. I initially thought we would get into groups and discuss which was the right decision to race or not. I was not expecting for Dr. Goates do do all of this math and ridiculous graphs to show which is the smarter option. There is much more to coming up with something than just discussing the problem among peers. You actually need to look at and analyze all the data to come up with a logical decision. I learned it is not always to go with your gut decision even if you are an expert.

Managing Multicultural eam

After reading "Managing Multicultural eam" I realized the difficulties of working with people from different cultures. Some difficulties are obvious like language barriers and accents, but it is the subtle differences that are the hardest to overcome while working in a group with people of different cultures. The differences can harm the team causing both relational conflict and task conflict. The one story in the article shows this where a Bank Manager of Mexican heritage thought he was being humble with the customers but instead of himself coming off as humble, the customers thought he did not know what he was talking about.

It takes a lot of effort to get over the cultural walls. Managers are usually appointed to try and keep these teams or group of people on track of the common goal. The Managers job is very tough and involves a good amount of work, but hopefully if the team is permanent then eventually his job will fade away or at least become easier and the team can function successfully without the need for a manager. The article gave some strategies that were used successfully in the field.  Those strategies are Adaption, Structural intervention, Managerial Intervention, and Exit. All of the strategies seem successful when a situation arrises.

The Wisdom of Teams

In my opinion, the working group scenario is the best option to pick for a group of people. It puts responsibility on each individual of the group instead of the group as a whole. Everyone who has been to school knows what it is like to work with a small group of people. A few things can happen. The group could experience no problems what so ever and they will get a good grade, but problems will occur and it is up to the group to fix it. This takes time to fix that a group doesn't usually have. The more people that work on a small task the more time it takes to be done. The group will start to argue and get in each others way to try and fix the problem.

It's better for the group to assign different tasks to each individual so work is done efficiently and if a problem comes up, it is up to the individual or the group leader to decide how to handle it as quickly and accurately as possible. Now the individual can ask his/her group members for help, that's the point of a group.

A working group is necessary  for people who have met for the first time and only plan to do this one project together. But if this group continues to work with each other on a regular basis then the group can eventually evolve into a Real Team and they they may one day reach the level of High-performing Team.

Discrimination at Wal-Mart

Going Back to the class discussion about "Is Wal-Mart discriminating against women?", I did not get to talk during the discussion do to my own shyness so now I want to share my opinion. What bothered me about the article "Patriarchy at the Check-Out Counter" were a couple of the graphs. A couple of the graphs were dated for only one year, yet the whole arguement was; "Was Wal-Mart discriminating against women over the course or several years not just one." The graph clearly showed that women were being payed less than women. Some of the pay differences were a bit extreme, but just as a curiosity i would like to see if this trend continues.


My opinion on the whole thing is that Wal-Mart at the higher levels were not discriminating, but at regional and or local levels discrimination was obvious. Even though I am curious to see where the higher up positions get their pay checks because the Men and women who were Regional Vice-Presidents had big difference in pay. Women made significantly less then men. Without a good reason for this difference points to discrimination against women at the higher levels of Wal-Mart as well as the lower level positions.

Can You Handle Failure?

I read the article and found it interesting for the most part but there were a few times where it seemed to drag out an explanation for something. The article was very informative on the ways people tend to handle failure and how to handle it the right way in the future. I like how this article met with a similar conclusion with the "Personality Plus" article. They both agreed that a person may have one response for one situation but the person may have a completely different response to another yet similar situation to the first one. I am glad that both authors realize that a test that labels someone's personality as this type or that type is flawed and can change depending on the situations.


After I finished reading the article I looked back on pass failures. I seem to fall into the categories, RESERVED: “INDIFFERENT DAYDREAMER” -Ignores potentially helpful feedback and Seems not to care about failure or blame and DUTIFUL: “MARTYR”-Accepts more blame than he/she deserves in order to preserve work relationships, blames himself/herself so harshly that others typically refrain from criticizing him/her. By looking at these two types, it looks like I cannot accept criticism from other people when I fail. 


That is me categorizing myself. Now to a another person, I could be considered to handle failure in a different way.

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