fandomhigh | Leadership, Thursday, Period 1, Class 7 (10/23/08)

"Today we're talking about problem solving," Nathan said. "As a leader, this is something you're going to have to do a lot. Step one may seem obvious, but it's something many leaders fail to do: accurately define the problem. Let's say someone comes up to you and says that they can't finish building a bridge because they ran out of money. Your people need that bridge built so you approve a higher budget. Does that solve the problem? What if the reason why the project was running out of money was because someone was stealing it? Or mismanaging the construction? Or because nobody researched to find out that you were building a bridge in the worst possible location?

"This is why the first step of problem solving is asking questions. What are the details of the problem? What's going on? Why is it happening? What do other people think about the situation?"

Nathan handed out cards with pictures on them. "Put together, all these cards tell a story. You each get one. You're not allowed to show anyone what your card is. Your assignment is to find out as much as you can about the story. Go around to your fellow students and ask them about their cards. What's on them? What's going on? Are their cards similar to yours? I'll give you a hint that they're numbered, so you may want to seek out those who have cards close to your number first, but that's not a requirement.

"Get as many details as you can. I'm here if you have any questions."

[ooc: OCD is up!]

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Momoko was grinning madly. She hadn't yet had a chance to really meet the not-Bumblebee robot student and she was excited to do so now. "Hi! I'm Momoko! It's nice to finally get a chance to talk to you!"

"Turtle!" Momoko waved a cheery hello. "My card is weird, what about yours?" She paused. "Well, it isn't really weird, since it's a card and that's not weird for a card to be, but what's on it is weird."

Turtle couldn't help a little snort of a laugh because that, while a little tricky to follow, was cute. "Well," she said, "what's on it?"

"Just an archer." She looked down at the card again to make sure she hadn't missed something. "Well, a red archer. What's on yours? I know they're supposed to all together make sense, but I don't see how."

"So guy imprinting hieroglyphics," Turtle said with a shrug. "Your archer isn't crude like a hieroglyphic, is he?"

"Does he look Egyptian?" Tony asked.

Momoko raised an eyebrow and checked the card again. She turned it upside down and frowned. "Well, it's not exactly high art at its finest. Yours is a guy making hieroglyphics? An Egyptian?"

"You can't really tell," Turtle admitted, frowning slightly after taking a moment to really consider it.

"I think he's copying them," Turtle admitted, "rather than making them, and he doesn't look specifically Egyptian. So it makes me wonder if your archer is just one of the hieroglyphics, you know?"

"Probably not, then," Tony said. "Or they would've made it obvious. What's he printing the hieroglyphics on?"

"Hmm. That makes sense." Momoko nodded. "Can you see any of the figures that your guy is copying? Oh! What's your card's number? If ours are close, then maybe they're more closely related, right?"

"Um, paper?" Turtle had no idea. "That's kind of vague, too. Maybe it's papyrus, for all I know."

Tony wrote down everything she'd told him about it in his notes, then looked them over. "Yeah, I'm not getting anywhere yet."

"Right." Turtle nodded, looking closely at her card again. "You can't really tell what they are, unfortunately. But my card number is five. How about yours?"

"Number four," Agnes told him. "It's the arm of some sort of scholar, I think."

"An arm?" Tony asked. "How do you know it's a scholar?"

"I don't know," Ben said. "What does yours have on it?"

"That's why I guess you ask around," Turtle nodded a little. "Can you tell what the hieroglyphics are, or are the mountain the top of the column the hieroglyphics?"

"Sixteen," Ben said. "Any idea what the heiroglyphics say?"

"Two. So there are two between ours. Have you found out what three and four are yet?"

"He'd probably take more than two guys," Ben said.

"A red archer. Yours?"

Agnes shrugged. "There's foreign writing. Or else ancient writing. ...Or, actually, maybe just Professor Petrelli got the cards from a place with weird writing."

"Three guys on an elephant," Ben said, looking even more confused. "What number are you?"

"No, they're separate, but I can't tell what they're supposed to be," Tony said.

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