Cultural groups are generally depicted accurately in popular culture.

Which of the following is NOT a guideline for a speech of introduction?

A) Keep the focus on the person being introduced. B) Be brief. C) Establish the speaker's credibility on the topic. D) Excite the audience's expectations, even if that means having to oversell the speaker a bit.

Axis and Co was going through an economic rough patch and wanted ideas that could help the firm. Therefore, the company conducted a contest where it asked employees to come up with innovative cost-cutting methods

This resulted in the generation of numerous options to help the company save a lot of money. What is this process of problem solving called? Why was this best suited for this situation? a) Brainstorming; since the company needed a lot of ideas and no idea was a bad idea at the tim b) Decision tree process; since the people involved in generating new ideas needed to ask questions about the new factors of the problem c) Experientially based process; since the problem was new in nature and the people involved in generating ideas would have limited information d) Standard Agenda process; since the people generating the ideas had to submit a final report to the board.