Unidad III Y IV Patrones de Organizacion de un Parrafo

Are You a Team Player?

It may seem like a contradiction, but you can view yourself as a team player and still impede your team's ability to function successfully. Consider one team that I observed during a problem-solving session. The group had about four hours to try to come up with a solution.

Moments after the group gathered, a personable, outgoing fellow volunteered to facilitate the group's effort; at that, he jumped up and positioned himself at the flipchart, marker in hand ready to take notes. This chap had previously told me with pride that he was a team player, and he truly saw himself as one. He wanted his team to succeed and was highly motivated to contribute to their shared effort.

But once at the flipchart, he did as much to obstruct the team effort as to support it: For example, he dismissed several ideas that differed from his own, and discounted some suggestions without trying to understand the reasoning behind them. He seemed unfazed when several people spoke simultaneously. As the effort proceeded, he failed to notice expressions of annoyance on the faces of some team members - or if he noticed, he did nothing about them.

This fellow's heart was in the right place. He was a team player. How could it be otherwise, given how strenuously he wanted the team to succeed. Yet from the way he worked, it was as if he'd been directed to see how many ways he could come up with to make the problem harder to solve than it actually was.

The same was true of other participants - team players all. For example, one participant stated that she was good at listening to many simultaneous speakers; then moments later, she misstated a key point one of them had just made. Another said he'd support any solution, as long as the session ended quickly. Then he continually inserted ideas that prolonged the discussion. None seemed aware of how their behavior was counteracting the very success they wanted the team to achieve. Under the pressure of time, they acted in a manner that ensured their effort would need more time rather than less.

The mark of a successful team is not just that it achieves a successful outcome, but that team members enjoy working together and would be happy to continue doing so.

A team that destroys itself in the course of accomplishing its mission is no team at all. Even if everyone is a team player.

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Tesla, Nikola

(July 9/10, 1856, Smiljan, Croatia--d. Jan. 7, 1943, New York City), Serbian-American inventor and researcher who discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. 

He emigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse the following year. In 1891 he invented the Tesla coil, an induction coil widely used in radio technology.

Tesla was from a family of Serbian origin. His father was an Orthodox priest; his mother was unschooled but highly intelligent. A dreamer with a poetic touch, as he matured Tesla added to these earlier qualities those of self-discipline and a desire for precision.

Training for an engineering career, he attended the Technical University at Graz, Austria, and the University of Prague. At Graz he first saw the Gramme dynamo, which operated as a generator and, when reversed, became an electric motor, and he conceived a way to use alternating current to advantage. Later, at Budapest, he visualized the principle of the rotating magnetic field and developed plans for an induction motor that would become his first step toward the successful utilization of alternating current.

In 1882 Tesla went to work in Paris for the Continental Edison Company, and, while on assignment to Strassburg in 1883, he constructed, in after-work hours, his first induction motor.  Tesla sailed for America in 1884, arriving in New York, with four cents in his pocket, a few of his own poems, and calculations for a flying machine. He first found employment with Thomas Edison, but the two inventors were far apart in background and methods, and their separation was inevitable.

In May 1885, George Westinghouse, head of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh, bought the patent rights to Tesla's polyphase system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors. The transaction precipitated a titanic power struggle between Edison's direct-current systems and the Tesla-Westinghouse alternating-current approach, which eventually won out.

Tesla gave exhibitions in his laboratory in which he lighted lamps without wires by allowing electricity to flow through his body, to allay fears of alternating current. He was often invited to lecture at home and abroad. The Tesla coil, which he invented in 1891, is widely used today in radio and television sets and other electronic equipment. That year also marked the date of Tesla's United States citizenship.

In 1898 Tesla announced his invention of a teleautomatic boat guided by remote control. When skepticism was voiced, Tesla proved his claims for it before a crowd in Madison Square Garden.

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En este texto se refiere a la vida de Nicola Tesla inventor serbio americano quien  fue unos de los mas grandes inventores e investigadores del siglo XX y su gran aporte al planeta  por sus descubrientos de la corriente alterna.