Abstract
Projective testing has traditionally served to explore intelligence or personality. In this projective test, participants work individually or in groups to ascertain the leadership qualities of two CEO candidates: Dr. Glass (a shiny, clean, empty wine bottle) and Dr. Clay (a ball of multicolored modeling clay). The Dr. Glass and Dr. Clay exercise pushes students into divergent thinking. Issues of perceptions, projections, and paradoxes in the leadership attribution and selection process emerge from the debriefing.
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