{"id":17891,"date":"2016-11-01T01:55:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=17891"},"modified":"2016-11-01T01:55:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:55:38","slug":"musings-first-challenge-team-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/musings-first-challenge-team-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings of a first challenge team lead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working with people presents a challenge no matter what, but when it comes to working with your <em>fellow<\/em> fellows, it&#8217;s different. The difficulty arises for a couple of reasons: different perspectives on how a problem should be solved, and understanding the hierarchy of authority in the group.<\/p>\n<p>Different perspectives when it comes to problem solving is something that we have now covered as a class: the dominants are problem aggressors, conscientious people and their attention to detail and so on. In working on a real project, these personalities become something much more real, not a topic to get us thinking. Balancing the ideas and aspirations of the certain individuals with the realism of others proves a significant effort. There is no doubt that the diversity of perspective contributes the quality of ideas, but navigating around people is much harder than navigating a task itself (not unlike navigating the human in our human centered design.<\/p>\n<p>Next came the issue of authority, which was still difficult but less complex. The issue came with working with these individuals in which: no defined authority structure was established and lack of a system of discipline\/reward. In working with peers that we have had a small amount of experience with, trying to establish\/utilize a position of authority was a moot point. Next was not being able to use some sort of system of discipline, although the need did not arise (and I can&#8217;t imagine that it will), not having something to resort to in the case of a coworker\/employee not meeting expectations inherently limits the effectiveness of a leader.<\/p>\n<p>Both elements, while important, are not necessarily solvable (or should be solved) in the environment of Challenge Detroit, they&#8217;re simply some ideas crossing the mind of a recent B-school grad in a new city at a new gig.<\/p>\n<p>-Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with people presents a challenge no matter what, but when it comes to working with your fellow fellows, it&#8217;s different. The difficulty arises for a couple of reasons: different perspectives on how a problem should be solved, and understanding the hierarchy of authority in the group. Different perspectives when it comes to problem solving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}