Bill!,
Thank you, Bill!(!)
Definitely cool. Too cool for School!
--Joe
PS Remember the Star Trek thing about the Kashi-Maru exercise, or whatever it
was, at Star Fleet Academy? Your training reminded me at first of this. Cap't
Kirk effected some unique and famously- legendary solution of that problem, as
I recall (vaguely, down the years...). Bill!(!), you guys did the Kashi Maru!
And the Watusi at the same time! ;-)
> "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> An example of one of the other exercises we did at that conference was we
> divided up into teams of I think 5 apiece. Each team had a different problem
> to solve, it was a logistics problem - management oriented. Each on on the
> team was given a 'clue', a piece of information that was critical to solving
> the entire problem. We could not however divulge our clue until we were
> directly asked about it, and then we could only reply with a 'yes' or 'no'.
> This of course required the team to work closely together and to cooperate on
> solving the problem. The kicker was one of the clues was false and
> misleading. Even the person that was given the clue didn't know that, and we
> as a group were not told that was the case. So we not only had to work
> together as a group to acquire everyone's clue and then put them together to
> solve the problem, we had to eventually discover that one of the clues just
> didn't fit and abandon it to solve the problem.
>
> Cool, huh? A good emulation of a real life problem-solving activity.
>
> There were some other very good ones too.
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