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Real life situations for decision making

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Provide three real-life examples of problems for which it would be helpful to go through the problem-solving stages. Discuss your answer to the question concerning this scenario:

A man who escaped a fire in a skyscraper told a newspaper reporter, survived because I used the information about making decisions I learned in business school. What do you think he learned about decision making that saved his life?

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Brief examples only of real-life examples of problem solving

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Real-life examples of problem solving:

1. In the middle of the ocean on a sinking boat or ship: swim for it or stay with debris
2. Stranded with a flat tire: stay with car, walk to store, flag passer-by down
3. ...

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