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Essay / Project #2: What I Learned - 575
By completing Project #2 over the past five weeks, I learned a number of lessons that I can apply to future work situations. group work. The most notable lessons I learned from this project are: how to be a manager, how to work with others who don't have the same work ethic as me, and most importantly, how to fire someone from the group . Every lesson learned will help me in my future as an engineer; learn to choose trustworthy, hard-working people and be able to manage those people. Group management has never been one of my strong traits, as I feel more comfortable doing tedious work and being given personal tasks. Rather than making sure others stay focused on the tasks I assigned them. At the start of the project, no one was really comfortable around each other, as most of us had just met and didn't know what to expect. As we progressed through the project, roles or positions were established for everyone in the group. Unexpectedly, I became a sort of group leader, ensuring...