All participants were then asked to complete, under time pressure, a series of challenging problem-solving tasks, for which they needed to use creativity to generate the correct solutions.

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No matter what position you hold within a company, your job is to tackle the most critical tasks on your plate, bring creative problem-solving to your challenges, and make excellent decisions.

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Their mission is to facilitate collaborative tasks such as problem solving, exception handling, consensus building, and innovative brainstorming, tasks that cannot be pre-programmed into structured processes or workflows.

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