The Changing Worker

Chapter 7 was very interesting to read. It really brought many important concepts of working. The way Professor Davidson divided the chapter into parts helped me better understand her message in this chapter. Part 4 of chapter 7 talks about the advantage that exist when we work as team. Professor Davidson used the example of young man she came across at Duke University by the name Shane Battier. A very smart and athletic person, whose great influence on his basketball team led them to the NCAA Championship game. When I read this part in Chapter 7, I remembered when I was in high school and played for the baseball team at my school. We started the season 0-3 and game 4 was against the best team in our division. As a team we believe there was no way possible we could beat the best team in the division. We started the game losing 5 to 1. Nobody was surprise we were losing, but our 3rd baseman named Mike got up a gave us a speech about how he was sicking of losing games. He told us we were better than 0-3, that we could go out there and still win this game. He was really into what he was speaking about, he seem very mad more than anything else. He influenced us to play better. He knew we were great players and even though he was the best overall player on the team he wanted to make everyone around him better. Making a long story short, thanks to Mike’s long speech about how we could win every game if we wanted to and how good we were as baseball players. We went out back into the game and played harder and won 8 to 7. It was a team win, we all had each other’s back. Professor Davidson story about Shane Battier, reminded me a lot of Mike. Two man who influence those around them to be better. Some people are given that gift, the ability to influence others to perform to the best of their ability and even awake hidden talents.