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You Have Been Assigned a New Project with High Visibility

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You have been assigned a new project with high visibility.Your boss has given you the option of either dividing the work between five highly skilled and talented employees,or making a team of those five and giving them shared responsibility for the project.On what criteria will you base your decision to form a team or not?


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Functional Fixedness

A cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used, hindering problem-solving.

Availability Heuristic

A cognitive shortcut based on the first instances that pop into someone's mind upon assessing a particular subject, idea, technique, or choice.

Functional Fixedness

A psychological inclination that constrains someone to applying an artifact only in its accepted traditional role, thereby stifling creative thought and problem resolution.

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.

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