As a business major, we discuss many different circumstances that we will encounter in our business career. One of those major areas is learning how to work with others in a group situation to create an outcome or a product. Thinking about it… it actually sounds pretty similar to star formation….
The 5 stages of group formation are – Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Adjourning.
The 5 stages of star formation are – forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Adjourning.
Coincidence???
In business the 5 stages represent how a group achieves its product. For stars, the stages represent how they are formed. Lets compare the process…
- forming in business means bringing people together from different areas to form the group --- forming in star formation is gravity bringing together Gas and dust together.
- Storming in business is the process where individuals confront others with difficulties and frustration. – storming in star formation where the core of the shrinking cloud starts to heat up (tension between people or objects).
- Norming in business is after people have settled their conflicts and they develop a clear procedure based on mutual respect and a set of obligations towards one another. --- Norming in stars is when the star reaches the appropriate temperature, fusion starts and stops the shrinking – Proto Star. (conflicts stop, and tension stops).
- Performing in business is where the group starts to create a product or outcome that is working and effective based on their mutual respect – performing in star formation is when a star becomes able to sustain fusion (star settles on main sequence).
Adjourning is the final stage of business – this is when the product has been completed and the group can disassemble. For stars… this is similar, except we call it a Planetary Nebula, and at the end of this, all that’s left is a carbon core or a carbon copy.
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