As one of my professor's recommendation,  I thought the Elkhorn Slough just a ideal place for my family to relax during this weekend.
Unfortunately the sky is cloudy and grey this morning, and it just began to rain while we set off.


 The map of direction
The public access to this reserve are limited to the the reserve center, the Moss Landing Harbar, and the Kirby Park.
Since the weather prohited us from visiting the scenic trails, we followed the Elkhorn road and went to the Kirby park. It was actually a parking lot, extending to the heart of the slough. Thare were a widely diverstiy of wildlife we could watch there.
Later we moved on toward the Moss Landing Harber, where the tour guide reported sea otters presented.
More birds, and some sea otters playing on the sea, you could easily catched a couple of pictures that sea otters swam and played, and thieir heads surfaced looking around.

Finally we arrived the other side of the harber. Some people were fishing on the rocks, though the waves seeemed severely dangerous.
Next time we will visit this pretty reserve again, in a gorgeous sunny day.

1. Visit all listed websites and learn something about 'complexity' from the resources.
All documents have been downloaded and accesssed, but I still need time to digest all of them.




2. Describe what you believe are the top 10 factors that cause the most complexity in organizations (1 page maximum)

My answer:
1. People
Different personality and characteristics stemmed from discrete human beings poses a significant challenge to the leaders and managers.
2. Budget limit
Available money in the organization is always limited in terms of a certain extent. How to acquire and seize the enough financial support is definitely a major issue in the manager's priority list.
3. Clients
Since clients justify the outcome of the projects, their satisfication should be bear in mind as well.
4. Culture
Culture gap is not only as regards the difference of tradition, customs, and life styles, to name a few, between different countries, but also emerges domestically from the organization itself.
5. Urgency
No matter you work actively or make no progess at all, the clock is always ticking. Generally speaking, most of projects will be sett up on a basis of limited time, so project managers should focus on accomplishing all designed tasks and ensuring the outcome accepted within the allotted time.
6. People skills
Well-trained, highly-skilled specialists usually take less time to identify, evaluate, design, and improve the products required by the project. Without their expertise, it is difficult to facilitate the process that ensures works done on time.
7. Political and economic conditions
Uneasy conditions, especially from the political and economic aspects, will hamper the advance of projects, or even eliminate the chance of success in the projects in the foreseeable future.
8. Access to essential database
Most projects demand new designs and products, which usually heavily rely on innovative thinking and ideas to realize. Without sufficient accesses to required information, especially some confidential or protected data, the project is likely to reach a bottleneck, thus slows down its planned schedule, and even consequently result in a unfortunate outcome.
9. Bureaucracy
Multi-tiers governments and less responsive cross-agency communications in some countries reflect a burden in pursuit of the success of projects.
10. Infrastructure

In combination of professional and financial capital, sufficient software and hardware support are also keys to ensure the implementation of a well-designed project.

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This cool picture was taken in fornt of Big Sur beach.
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