UnEARTHing Iowa, College of Growth in Iowa

Chad Davis

Today we took a simulation of managing a food business. I feel like it was slightly helpful but there were some downfalls. A lot of the groups did not understand the procedure that was needed to be successful. I know its always more helpful and you retain more information about the project if you can figure it out for yourself, but it was challenging to figure it all out in the short time period that we had. There were a lot of good things about it as well. I feel like it helped me try to adapt to the situation that presented itself and I really enjoyed working with the other two guys on teamwork. We really worked well as a team but could not seem to find the right strategy to be successful. Hopefully when we go over the information tomorrow it will become more clear what we did right and what we did wrong. I enjoyed the speakers at Bank Iowa a lot and I could not think of any speakers that were more beneficial than Adam Carroll, Jim Langin and Jeff Vroman. They gave great advice, my favorite being “Nothing is beneath you and you are never to good to take out the trash.” I felt like Pella Corp. really dragged out their presentations and they were trying to recruit us more than inform us of leadership opportunities, but they also did have some really insightful information. I also enjoyed Dr. Roe's presentation today and it was interesting to me to hear someone from his position to give is opinions on leadership and life. I can't speak for the rest of the group but I feel like none of us would have thought about trying to lead our superiors before today. Overall, today was a great day with a lot of information although sometimes kind of slow.