After reading chapter 17, I think that there are many parallels between the four functional requisites of task groups and the body’s need for respiration, circulation, digestion and elimination. I think that the four functional requisites of task groups: Analysis of the problem, Goal Setting, Identification of alternatives, and Evaluation of positive and negative characteristics coincide with carrying out a decision just as our bodies take what we put in them and carry out the tasks that we need to have taking place within us in order to survive. In groups, we are forced to think outside of our own minds and call upon others to contribute to the problem within the situation at hand. This enables us to work together in order to accomplish a certain goal. This is happening the same way within living systems when they work together to regulate and maintain homeostasis within our bodies. There is no way a living system could exist without the interaction and working together of all of the systems within it, in order to eliminate the bad things that we need to get rid of in our bodies, just like this, groups take the problem or issue at hand and work together until it is worked out and resolved.
