Virtual Teams in Action: Building the F-35 Fighter Case Study 1 By: Alyssa Dimeck MGT 404 10/09/2011 Professor Samuel Palmeri Virtual Teams in Action: Building the F-35 Fighter CASE SUMMARY The U.S. Department of Defense is known for their F-35 Lighting II Program; the focal point for defining affordable next generation stealth fighter aircraft. In 2002‚ the Department of Defense announced Lockheed Martin Aeronautic as the designer and builder of the fighter with Northrop Grumman and
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This high performance team model took a lot of critical thinking and group think to design. Critical thinking is defined as‚ skillful‚ accountable thinking where the group studied the problem from every aspect and then used our better judgments to come up with the most effective solution. Group think is where the group found out what the problem was by agreement and came up with the best way to deal with it. This team worked great together as a whole. The team has grown to have cohesion. Cohesion
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Odysseus’ Strengths and Weaknesses The Odyssey by Homer is a metaphor for one man’s spiritual quest. Throughout the story Odysseus develops and growth. Odysseus learns how to use his brain instead of his hands. He starts to listen to the advices of different people. He also finally understands the advice given by the blind prophet Tiresias: "It is the journey‚ not the destination." At the beginning of the story Odysseus has some weaknesses that prolong his voyage back to Ithaca. His most important
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Working in Teams Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: Introduction Trust is the confidence that a person has towards another person. It is the ability to rely on a person by accepting his/her ideas without investigating or collecting evidence. A team is a collection of people with a common goal who are united together to achieve the goals. Interpersonal relationships refer to the association between two or more people in an organization that is geared towards business activities
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goddess Aphrodite once made a suggestion to everyone to "Follow your heart" (Riordan). That is one thing that Aphrodite always did as the goddess of love and beauty. She lived a famous and an extraordinary life as told through her background‚ strengths and weaknesses‚ answering prayers‚ and left her legacy through the temples and celebrations in her honor. Aphrodite was the daughter of Uranus. She was born from the Paphos sea in the island of Cyprus. Paphos was named after Aphrodite’s daughter. She
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Team B: Week 3 Reflection There are many things to think about in accounting and running a business to make sure the financial part of it is there. If finances are not understood then it is likely the business will fail. Examining some key concepts from this week such as fixed‚ variable‚ and mixed costing‚ we discuss what we do and do not understand‚ and how it may apply to our everyday line of work or work performed in at a future point in time. Objective One: Understanding the distinction among
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purpose of a team? Why do people form a team to do certain projects? Statistical records have given us the answer. It is because working in a team can produce better results than what one person can do his or her own. We can see examples of this everywhere‚ from constructions of great monuments‚ such as the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge‚ to the great astronomical achievement of landing on the moon. None of these could have been done by a single person. It took a team to do it. Even
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17/10/2012 Team Building & Meetings PRINCIPLES OF MOTIVATION PHD: Varela Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage‚ both because it is powerful and so rare. Objective & content Learn to work in teams effectively Make your meetings work for you “Education is not the filling of a pail‚ but the lighting of a fire." 1 17/10/2012 Methodology You learn through your own experience‚ you learn praticing what
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The Acquisition Team Government Acquisitions January 20‚ 2013 The Acquisition Team The Acquisition Team is an information-based organization that is composed of more specialists than in the traditional command-and-control organization. Members of an acquisition team consist of multi-organizational as well as cross-functional‚ i.e. contractors‚ suppliers‚ acquisition professionals (Engelbeck‚ 2002). The focus of this paper is to present the students selection of a business opportunity offered
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