Ultimate Frisbee is more than a game of skill...I guess.

For my leadership class we are reading this book called "Leading Self-Directed Work Teams" I find it fascinating that all the ideas in this book seem to slip their way into every action that we perform throughout any activity. In the book, there is a section in chapter six that talks about how critical meetings and training are for a team. Last Monday in class it seems like we spent a whole lot of time playing the game with little preparation and absolutely no game plan. I guess the assumption is that "hey, we're college students, we know how this works," when honestly I had no idea how the game was truly played.

I think it can be quiet overwhelming for a team, if their leader stands up in front of a group and reads an internet "how to" print out of the game plan and then sends them out full force. Even though this was just a game of Frisbee, I can imagine what a disaster this would have been if it was a business project, or even more dramatically a strategy on the battlefield. Sure we would have a few guys who knew how to shoot a gun, some who could map out a target route, but if there is no training, are we not setting them up for a slaughter? So if the game we "learned" on Monday was real life, we would have been screwed. (To put it in the nicest terms)

With a little more training, and if the history had been relevant, this may have been a beneficial day of leadership. But I guess, since I learned something, then it was beneficial. I think I am just beginning to get what this class is about, it's more than the actual three ours of sports, but a day to relate to the rest of our lives, in the work force and in the symbolic and literal battle field. Figuring out how to take leadership, break it down, level the playing field, and figure out what the games are really about.