Comments on: Being Specific When Analyzing a Job http://jrothman.com/blog/htp/2008/06/being-specific-when-analyzing-a-job.html Hiring technical people and being hired can be difficult, no matter what the economy is doing. Use the tips here to hire better, or find a new job. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:26:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Walter Underwood http://jrothman.com/blog/htp/2008/06/being-specific-when-analyzing-a-job.html#comment-3651 Walter Underwood Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:36:14 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/htp/2008/06/being-specific-when-analyzing-a-job.html#comment-3651 Those definitions of teamwork are approaching the idea of "good expedition behavior", first laid out by Paul Petzoldt. He investigated problems on mountaineering expeditions and found that many failures were caused by poor behavior, not poor equipment, skills, or conditions. The current NOLS definition for good EB is here: http://www.nols.edu/alumni/leader/06summer/expedition_behavior.shtml My favorite version is this humorous one: http://recparks.asp.radford.edu/faculty/behavior.htm It starts with descriptions that apply to projects as well: A good expedition team is like a powerful, well-oiled, finely tuned marriage. Members cook meals together, carry burdens together, face challenges together and finally go to bed together. A bad expedition, on the other hand, is an awkward, ugly, embarrassing thing characterized by bickering, filth, frustration and crispy macaroni. Those definitions of teamwork are approaching the idea of “good expedition behavior”, first laid out by Paul Petzoldt. He investigated problems on mountaineering expeditions and found that many failures were caused by poor behavior, not poor equipment, skills, or conditions.

The current NOLS definition for good EB is here:

http://www.nols.edu/alumni/leader/06summer/expedition_behavior.shtml

My favorite version is this humorous one:

http://recparks.asp.radford.edu/faculty/behavior.htm

It starts with descriptions that apply to projects as well:

A good expedition team is like a powerful, well-oiled, finely tuned marriage. Members cook meals together, carry burdens together, face challenges together and finally go to bed together.

A bad expedition, on the other hand, is an awkward, ugly, embarrassing thing characterized by bickering, filth, frustration and crispy macaroni.

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