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What can organizations generally do to help cut down on "logistical hurdles to overcome"? MIT makes available to all free printing and shuttles. What can orga
by bbq 14y ago
What can organizations generally do to help cut down on "logistical hurdles to overcome"?
MIT makes available to all free printing and shuttles.
What can organizations generally do to help foster the sharing of information?
MIT encourages collaboration and their professors are accessible.
Of course, simply applying these tricks to an organization is doomed to fail. To do so would simply be to create a cargo cult.
What matters is the attitude with which you approach your organization. Your attitude is what drives the organizational experience.
- awm 14y agoCompletely agree. The key point is not "applying" these traits, or treating them as "tricks," its simply that the professors there embody that ideal. As an undergrad, it was easy for me to grab 10 minutes of any professor's time, even if it wasn't related to their courses or study. A lot of my classes had over 300 students in them, yet that didn't keep a professor from meeting with me either.
- bbq 14y agoHow would you summarize MIT's attitude?
- awm 14y agoMay sound corny, but I'd have to say "Fostering." If you show interest in something, be it knowledge about a subject or field (or entrepreneurship), they will always make sure you have all the resources you need. Part of this (and has been voiced in some of the other comments) is that they will never block you from learning or exploring something.
- bbq 14y agoFostering is a great word for the attitude we should strive for.
- Adlai 14y agoYour attitude is what drives the organizational experience. MIT's attitude is revealed through these "tricks". They're not giving away freebies to win people over; they're building an environment where you can focus all your time and energy on your work.
- bbq 14y ago> MIT's attitude is revealed through these "tricks". Precisely. MIT's behavior is the projection of its attitude. Through inertia, MIT aligns its participants' attitudes to various approximations of the overall attitude. Or, the overall attitude is the reduction of the participants' attitudes.