Hide Submission Folder InformationSubmission Folder7-2 Journal: Leading Effective Groups and TeamsInstructionsRead the following articles about building and leading effective teams:Building and Leading High Performance TeamsBuilding Effective Teams Isn't Rocket Science, but It's Just as Hard (Note: This article can only be accessed a limited number of times.)Managing groups and teams is an essential element of the leading facet of the P-O-L-C framework. As you read these articles, reflect on your experience working in groups and teams, and then address the following prompts:Think about a positive experience when you worked in a group or team and identify the principles that were presented in the articles that were exhibited by your group or team. Explain how these principles helped the group or team succeed.Think about a negative experience when you worked in a group or team and identify which principles from the articles were lacking. Explain how the lack of these principles led to poor performance of the group or team.If you were the manager of that group or team, how would you correct the issues that caused the poor performance? Consider the material from this module and in the articles. Building and Leading High Performance TeamsBuilding Effective Teams Isn't Rocket Science, but It's Just as Hard

Read Resources: On Plato's metaphysics, ch 3 Textbook 1 IntroductionToPhilosophy by Russ Payne 2015.pdfActions; On Plato's Allegory of the Cave, p. 29, Textbook 1 IntroductionToPhilosophy by Russ Payne 2015.pdfActionsPlato's Metaphysics: Supplement ReadingActions by BiffleLecture notes: Plato and his MetaphysicsActionsVideo on Allegory of the Cave animation:Write YOUR SIGNIFICANT LEARNING SUMMARY IDEAS from the READINGS FOUND IN THE TEXTBOOK. Please write clearly in a complete sentence to credit your work. Separate paragraph with numbers. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE 5 SUMMARY POINTS LIKE BELOW:1. In Payne's textbook ch 3, or in Biffle's text on Plato, find out who is Plato? Describe his background and political situation of the time? Describe the ideal state Plato wanted to establish in "The Republic"? 2. In Biffle's text, Plato's metaphysics infographics, and PPT notes on PLATO AND METAPHYSICS, Plato was influenced by two Greek Pre-Socratics ideas in his philosophizing? Who are those Pre-socratic thinkers and describe the influences?3. Watch the Allegory of the cave story, or read, in the Republic of Plato Vol. VII ( https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf (Links to an external site.) ), describe the two worlds of Plato which are central to the message of the allegory of the cave?4. Unlock the symbolism of the Allegory of the cave by interpreting the following: Shadows in the wall, freeing the prisoners from chains, dragging up of the prisoners to move outside the cave, turning back to see the shadows, and going back to the cave again after seeing the outside world? 5. Application questions: Give 2 lessons you have learned from the story of the prisoners in the Allegory of the cave.