Human Relations For Career and Personal Success 9th Edition by Andrew Dubrin

Exercise 9

Stretch Your Imagination
A global contest was organized by Stanford University through its Technology Ventures program. Anyone in the world was permitted to enter. The assignment was to take ordinary rubber bands and "add value" to them. Entries were submitted by video, posting them on YouTube. Entrants included people from many different occupations, including computer scientists. The winner received the Genius Award.
Here is where you fit in. By brainwriting or brainstorming, come up with at least six ways of adding value (making more useful) to a rubber band, or a bunch of rubber bands. You must stretch your imagination to be successful. After the brainstorming sessions have been completed, perhaps taking ten minutes of class time, a representative of each group might share results with the class. Students might then assign a Genius Award to the entry that seems the most useful. Or the instructor might be the judge.