
Management 14th Edition by Leslie Rue,Lloyd Byars ,Nabil Ibrahim
Edition 14ISBN: 978-0078029110
Management 14th Edition by Leslie Rue,Lloyd Byars ,Nabil Ibrahim
Edition 14ISBN: 978-0078029110 Exercise 20
Creativity Exercise
Most of us believe we are more creative than we really are. Take a maximum of four minutes each on solving the following three problems.
a. Draw four straight lines connecting the dots in the following diagram without lifting your pencil (or pen) off the paper. You are permitted to cross a line, but you cannot retrace any part of a line.
b. What do the following words have in common (other than they are all in the English language)?
c. Place 10 circles of the same size in five rows with four circles in each row.
After you have attempted each of the above problems, be prepared to discuss the following questions:
1. Why do you think these "simple" problems were difficult for you?
2. Do you think grade school children tend to do better or worse than adults on problems such as these? Why?
Most of us believe we are more creative than we really are. Take a maximum of four minutes each on solving the following three problems.
a. Draw four straight lines connecting the dots in the following diagram without lifting your pencil (or pen) off the paper. You are permitted to cross a line, but you cannot retrace any part of a line.
b. What do the following words have in common (other than they are all in the English language)?
c. Place 10 circles of the same size in five rows with four circles in each row.After you have attempted each of the above problems, be prepared to discuss the following questions:
1. Why do you think these "simple" problems were difficult for you?
2. Do you think grade school children tend to do better or worse than adults on problems such as these? Why?
Explanation
a.
b. All the words have three consecu...
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