Teams become consulting firms hired to fix a deeply unserious organization: a bakery with too much secrecy, a zoo for imaginary animals, or a hotel where every room is themed around soup.
Before guests arrive
- Build case files with one client, crisis, constraint set, and impossible data point.
- Give each consulting team the same presentation materials and budget template.
- Choose one person to chair the board and enforce time limits.
The three moments
Deliver the case file
Give each team a client, a strange crisis, three constraints, and one piece of data that cannot possibly be correct.
Build the recommendation
Teams get twenty-five minutes to create a strategy, slogan, budget, and one graph with an alarming arrow.
Meet the board
Each firm presents for three minutes and answers one skeptical question before the room awards the contract.
Host-ready schedule
Your run of show
Form firms, distribute case files, and clarify the deliverables.
Give teams twenty-five minutes to build their recommendation.
Run three-minute pitches followed by one skeptical board question.
Award the contract and reveal the strongest slogan, chart, and recovery.