Week of november 5 - 11

3). Pick one concept from the assigned reading, that has not already been discussed during this discussion week, that you found useful or interesting, and discuss it.


One of the concept from the assigned reading that I found useful was the concept of guidelines for creative problem solution. the text states that creativity is the result of looking at things and seeing them in a new way. Everyone who knows me knows I am die hard San Francisco Giants baseball fan and I am very critical of my team. I have a love hate relationship with the team mainly because baseball is my passion. When the Giants start third baseman Pablo Sandoval went down with an injury the Giants decided to trade for veteran Marco Scutaro. When the Giants decided to make this trade I text my cousins fellow arm chair Giant fan general managers to voice my displeasure over this trade. I said things like he was to old, he doesn't move well, he cant hit. I was did not even think of the guidelines that the real manager seems to always think. In this case Bruce Bochy managed to kept an open mind and withheld his premature judgement about the Scutaro. He knew that the problem of having Sandoval out with an injury was going to create new ways for other players to get involved or the injury was going to give someone else an opportunity to seize the job. Now being that this trade happened it still presented a problem when Sandoval came back, what do to do with Scutaro and other players. Bochy had to be willing to break the rules and draw outside the lines. In baseball conventional wisdom would have told him to wait until Sandoval's injury fully healed but Bochy couldn't wait, he saw his team slipping and called for another trade for another outfielder Hunter Pence. So he activated Sandoval from the disabled list and hit Scutaro second and created a lineup that would help the Giants win their second World Series in three years. You see as the book says when you try something new, something different, something helpful it shows creativity and creative ideas enhance and expand all the possibilities of a product.