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Isabella Forero, David Cabrera, Julia Terrades, Alexander Villa, Emanuel Mendiola
Mrs. Katrina Herrero
8th Grade Language Arts
29 August 2018
Seven Skills RACE Response
1. The reason why figuring out a problem is so essential to solving it is because it
encourages critical thinking. In my opinion, when teachers challenge students with the
task of reaching their own conclusion, the knowledge earned becomes longer-lasting.
anwsetitis. We frequently give answers to questions that have not been adequately
explored.” Just as Dr Wagner stated we don’t have the answers to everything, and
students should be allowed to come to their own conclusions, maybe one of them will
2. Toyota encourages critical thinking and problem solving skills by giving each
employee the power to “stop the assembly line at Toyota if there is a problem”. By also
allowing its employees to have discussions based on the efficient and productive “cars of
the future” also mentioned by Dr Wagner from 4:49 to 4:41, this process gives its
employees the chance to ‘stretch their brain muscles’ , brainstorm new and creative ideas
3. By learning about different cultures and beliefs, workers can become more relatable to
each other. Being able to relate with each other, workers can communicate more clearly
and this in turn, “gives you the ability to engage others and ask the right questions.”
4. The qualities of any good leader are to be able to collaborate with everyone in their
team. Since today’s business world has changed, persuasion and communication are what
make people follow a leader, not a high position or title. Just like Dr Wagner said in his
video, ‘the ability to engage others and ask the right questions” are extremely important.
In fact, it ties into understanding cultures and beliefs, and without this combination a
leader could fail to bring the best out of people from different backgrounds and achieve
accepting people from around the country, and the world, to unite its talented workers
into a powerful team. In fact, Dr Wagner states in his video that, “the teams that these
companies put together are extremely diverse”. By creating such a dynamic work
environment, IBM gets collective talents from across the globe which it harnesses and
6. The reason for Clay Parkers restructuring is, so that every employee in his company
develops new and useful skills. This is stated by Dr. Wagner from 6:31 to 6:38. While it
does help the company, giving it a fresh start every year, it mainly helps its workers who
get both new skills and become more agile and adaptable.
7. The reason that mark Chandler considers an employee who sets 10 goals and only
meets 8 is because Mark knows that that employee knew that he could not meet all goals
but because he pushed himself beyond his limits, and left his comfort zone, he is happy
with him. On the contrary mark is angry with the employee that only did five goals
because hi did not push himself further. Stated by Dr Wagner, ‘all of these of these
companies are deeply concerned with keeping the entrepreneurial spirit alive. Thats why
mark chandler considers the employee who pushes himself a hero and the one who stays
8. The number one complaint of college teachers and employers is that student coming
from high school and college don’t know how to express themselves. Because of this, Dr
Wagner says that, “ (students) are so used to sort of turning out papers by formula that
students respond to their questions and assignments with poor answer sand writings.
9. The Dell executives have a two-part theory about employees’ oral and written
communication. During the 8th minute of the video, Dr. Wagner states that “their writing
is what their thinking, they can’t analyze, they can’t reason, and their writing is fuzzy.
They don’t know how to write with their voice they’re so used to turning out sort of
papers by formula, that they can’t write persuasively and clearly a point of view.” Which
means that oral and communication is a very important skill to learn for today’s
economy.
10. Research has changed since the arrival of the internet in many ways. During the
eight-minute of the video, Dr. Wagner states that “The amount of information that is
available to us is increasing exponentially! The ability not only to an effective web search
but more importantly to understand what critical information is. What is trivial, won’t be
important tomorrow is an absolutely indispensable skill.” Which means that with all of
this internet access we have these days can go a long way in our future and education.
11. In today’s economy, curiosity and imagination are qualities you must have to
influence today’s economy in a good way. Innovators need to be imaginative and creative
if they if they want to have good business. Consumers want new and interesting items not
ones that they see every day. During the ninth minute of the video, Tony Wagner states
that, “it is those products that have some imaginative or more playful elements, that are
12) Dr. Tony Wanger believes that us should become a commoditized economy rather
than a consumer economy. To support his opinion, he started the fact that Americans
saved 2% in 2007. This piece of information helps to back up his opinion by showing
how consumers are in debt because of their buying obsessions. Tony states in the tenth
consuming habit are economy and will slowly destroy it. Which is why Americans need
believes.