1. Real World Decision-making and Creativity:
An Exploratory, Team-based Exercise
Wayne Smith, Ph.D.
Department of Management
CSU Northridge

2. Your Team’s Task Form ad-hoc teams of 4 or 5
Each team will have a question
Answer the question “Yes” or “No”
This forces each team not to be “wishy-washy”
Decision-making
What is(are) the decision-making process(es) related to this question?
What data and criteria are important in addressing this question?
Phrase your team’s thinking in the form of several questions
Creativity
What is(are) the creativity process(es) related to this question?

4. Team #1
Would your team volunteer to go on a one-way trip to Mars?

6. Team #2
Is she an learned (educated) individual?

8. Team #3
Was the financial crisis of 2008/2009 avoidable?

10. Team #4
If you were going to run for CA Governor and had $160,000,000 to spend, could you win (and how would you spend the money to do it)?

12. Team #5
Is Cupid’s Hot Dogs a successful business?

13. Insert a picture of the class here (grin)

14. Team #6
How would you go about deciding who should be admitted to the HR/Management program?

16. Team #7
Is a typical Jennifer Aniston movie formulaic?

18. Team #8
Would you, as a Wal-mart employee or manager, have sold ammunition to Jared Loughner (the alleged Tucson shooter)?

20. Team (alternate)
Are you as safe now as you would have been in 1956?

23. Team (alternate)
How would you go about deciding whether you want this position?

24. Team (alternate)
How would you go about deciding whom you should hire for this position?