Valley Crossing - Great Example of Team Work

What is teamwork in practice? How many times have we talked about or heard from others the word being used to mean the ability to work along with a set of people. But Team Work means more than that. The Valley Crossing Problem is one such case where teamwork finds it true meaning. 

But what is the valley crossing problem? 

As the figure shows the problem is based on three people crossing the bridge over a gap. The points to focus in this case is that all the people have to play a role here, be it a prominent or a supporting one. The gap shown in the figure is greater than one normal step of the people there and less than two steps so that one cannot easily bridge the gap by jumping one step over it and at the same time not so large that two people are left hanging in the air at the same time. 

Best solution to the above problem is clearly demonstrated in the above picture.This is how a team work should be.When one of your team member is in trouble, the others should come to his rescue so that everyone are able to attain the common goal.

Persons	First Person	Second Person	Third person
Step
1	Safe	Safe	Safe
2	Risky	Safe	Safe
3	Safe	Risky	Safe
4	Safe	Safe	Risky

This illustrates a classical example of team work.A pragmatic managers keeps his ears and eyes open so as to pre empt such occurrences and prepare accordingly. 

And I would like to thank Dr.Mandi for making us understand such concepts in a way which only he can!!Thank you Sir for all your efforts.