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You attend your friend's piano recital, knowing that your friend is seriously considering a career as a pianist. Her performance is atrocious. She approaches you after the performance and asks, "Well, what did you think?"

What should you do?

A. Tell her to keep her day job?

B. Tell her it sounded terrific?

C. Try to get out of it by telling her a professional couldn't have done a better job?

D. Tell her it was pretty good, with plans to approach her later to discourage her from making a career of it?

E. Do something else? (If so, what?)

Use the Four virtues, Four-component model, Evaluation checklist, Ethics checklist, and the Five P's to help you analyze each of these options.

Problem contributed by Dr. Susan Montgomery, University of Michigan, 1992.

The question comes from: Strategies For Creative Problem Solving, 3rd Edition, Author: H.Scott Fogler, Steven LeBlanc with Benjamin Rizzo. Chapter 10-Evaluation Exercise 10.14 on Page 267.

Explanation / Answer

D. Tell her it was pretty good, with plans to approach her later to discourage her from making a career of it.

This fellow is highly interested in his field and asking about his performance with high hope. So never demoralise him in the first impression itself. He may continue the same or will. be able to perform well. From the above scenario the latter will not be possible. So, the best option is to slowly discourage him by guiding some other profession.

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