Paul Milgrom Econ 490 Fall 2019

  Sorry didn't mean for this to be late, my apologies I have been caught up with other stuff.  I worked at an Indian restaurant back in high school around a few years back. Now this was my first job, so I was not particularly good at it. This may not be a professional setting, but the principal-agent model is still there. So I would be the agent, and my manager and the customers would be the two principals. I honestly got orders mixed up at different tables quite a few times as I felt really frantic to try and get the orders out and was just in a general a bit of mess there. Granted I was 16, but the customers do deserve a good service. I am not sure what exactly happened, but my manager pulled me aside and talked to me about how he noticed from observation that I was not exactly performing well. I was failing to properly appease the customer in my duties and apparently I wasn't being friendly as I thought as. I do think I wasn't trying very much as I was I think abo...

There were some of the stuff I did not know going in before this class. For example, I did not necessarily know what the specific dynamics and power structures of organizations and how they may function are (like in the teamwork blogpost) which I learned through the reading the text and slides.              The online blogging was quite an interesting concept, especially for a class. Personally, I have never blogged before in my life, so it was quite an intriguing way to interact with the course material. I liked it better than have in class exams based on the material as it was more interactive way to learn the topics rather than the pressure of cramming for an exam and simply forgetting about the material. I think this way, with the blogging, I retained more information than I would have previously with a more traditional approach, which I consider a good thing.        ...