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Re: What Contributes the Most to a Team's Success?

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed View Post
What so graceless about answering a question?
Here's a hypothetical example:
Which family member contributes most to the success of a nuclear family: Father, mother, sister, or brother?

Is it gracious for the mother (or the father) of the family to pose such a question to the teenage children and the spouse? Is it gracious for the mother (or the father) to call copout when someone indicates that "everyone" should be an allowed answer to the question?

Such a question is no more relevant or helpful than trying to vote on whether the mechanical team is more important than the programming team or the fundraising team.

GP is for all involved to help inspire students to find themselves and learn skills and enjoy aspects of engineering. Trying to identify though voting which group members are most important raises some up at the unintended expense of considering other people as less important.

Publicly appreciate everyone- without needless: some jobs are more important than others polling, it's the GP thing to do.

I think most mentors already internally know how important they are without wanting or needing a poll where they are proven to win out over sponsors or students.
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