Takeshi castle event and strategizing

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Ateneo Professional School
Makati City
November 23, 2015

Happy St. Clement Fiesta in Angono, Rizal

There are usually 4 objectives of team building
1.  communication
2.  team bonding, building unity among members
3.  problem solving
4.  strategizing

The tower building accomplishes all the 4.  However, when restrictions were made that the members cant talk, # 1 is broken.   Planning, part of strategizing did not happen because of the time constraint.

However, we can see clearly that the Takeshi Castle game was mainly for development of strategy skill.  It is a combat/war situation and the two teams both take offensive and defensive positions.   Offensive to hit the paper targets on the opponents head, and defensive to prevent the opponents from hitting the target.

The combat situation is where the generals say that the best of strategy vanishes and melts.  It is  a very fluid situation that the commanders cant control, and the people in the field have to make judgement calls. At one time the team is the predator, and all of sudden, it becomes the prey (defensive)

When the team members try to protect each other, ducks or bends backward, is he or she "madaya?"  No that person is strategizing.  When the members complain to the judges their calls/decisions, the team members are not fighting the judges or the organizers.  They are strategizing, They are using all the available means, to throw off the judges/opponents so t hat they win.   They are all part of the strategy dynamics.

So in this exercise, many learned in practical way what is strategy, what real strategy is all about.  They may get lost with Davids so many tools of strategy, but at Prados farm, we learned what it is really all about.