WEEK 3: Connected Wisdom

 Connected Wisdom


  1. What came to your mind when reading the story? How can you relate the lessons of the story to your real life?

What comes to my mind is my country and I can relate it to the story by seeing what is happening on the streets now. Nobody seems to care about others’ well-being. It is just me, me and me. Even though we have gone through rough times and we have actually faced death -we’re still facing it with the virus around- many people seem not have learned the lesson. Everybody is arguing about who deserves what and many people just want every single measure or regulation to be adapted to their own interests. A lot of people think they are more important than others and that they are the ones who need support and complain because others are receiving the support and in the end, problems keep coming and solutions are not got. Really sad.

 

  1. Think about an environmental and/or social system of interest to you. List 5-6 essential elements and processes to that system? After listing the elements and processes, create 3 "If...then.." statements that show what will happen (or has happened) to the whole or integrity of that system if a part or a process is removed.

The way the building where I live is organized: President, treasurer, secretary, owners, tenants, landlords, reception guy, cleaning people. Every single one deals with different issues. 

We need to control the cleaning twice a week in the halls, there is a book to register that this is done, checked directly by the reception guy. This reports goes later to the secretary. The president is in charge of coordinating maintenance of equipment in the building: elevators, fire extinguishers, power supply, water supply, garage doors, among others and treasurer deals with payments of utilities for the services we all share in the building and for the salaries of the workers in the premises. 

If we didn’t have a reception guy, when we had the cleaning or maintenance people coming, we wouldn’t be able to let them in or supervise their job, therefore we could have damage equipment in short time.

If the president weren’t in the building and didn’t coordinate the visits for maintenance we would have damaged equipment in the building and wouldn’t be able to use them in case of emergencies.

If the treasurer didn’t deal with collecting the money from owners and tenants and paid the utilities, we would have no electricity nor water home. 




  1. What are 2-3 ways that the ideas in this chapter link to leadership?  Please explain this based on your own experience and examples. 

 Leaders must be the connectors, leaders must be the links who keep the integrity of a group, of a community. Leaders must know to give every single member of a group its importance and capable of making everyone understand we need everybody to keep on growing. 

We as human beings, are social beings, so we live in groups, and we depend on each other most of the time. And we certainly affect one another in every single thing we do. 

Once, in a group, there was this girl who always monopolized the conversations, who was always trying to get everybody’s attention. She did it in a way that most people started feeling uncomfortable with her behavior and didn't feel like working with her when in group work. 

She had lots of experience in the areas we needed to discuss and learn but couldn’t get her to be listened to because of her attitude. It was really because the group was falling apart. There were few people who wanted to listen but most who didn’t, so ended up having two groups. I remember I started talking about my grandmother and how she treated us, strong hard woman who was outspoken and never stopped to think and find the soft word but used the first that came to their minds, but what a wise woman she was. So they started bringing up similar stories and how they hated when their grandmother or mother didn’t stop talking patronizing them and how bad they felt but then realized they actually learned from these “ways”. I then took the chance to let them understand that those “ways” exist everywhere and they need to be tolerant to deal with it and end up learning. I guess they understood the hint I was trying to show and opened to listen and of course this girl had a lot to share so we could learn from. 

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