Flibbertigibbet

So Close and No Manslaughter Yet.

I've gotten through my MBA relatively unscathed, but this semester I am involved in yet another team project, but this time my team is full of ignorami and we have to write a business plan.

We have the following problems:

• Our leader is decision-making impaired.


• Our person assigned to marketing is trying not to do any work.


• The person who appointed himself to operations is actually trying to do marketing, strategic analysis, and finance.


• The three of them have changed the business idea about 47 times since we started it 8 weeks ago and now they're freaking out because so little is done.

To make matters worse, they don't seem to understand how to write a business plan!!!

I made an outline for them and provided notes of what sort of content should go in each sections, but they've submitted a version of the paper that runs counter to that. Further, they're all using different formatting, so it's hard to pull the paper together.

Right now, I'm trying to get my part done and back out of taking on any more responsibility for the project.

I am not a genius and no one would accuse my loping writing style on my blogs as being overly focused, but I don't think it's too much to ask to have people follow a simple outline.

I feel like I'm on the Titanic but everyone is ignoring the iceberg for the sake of a fire in the galley.