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Red Solo Cups: An Illustration of Scalability and Talent to Task

KEYWORDS: Entrepreneurship, team process, experiential exercise

Red Solo Cups is an exercise used to help prepare teams to work with clients to develop recommendations in growth situations. Scablity most often thought in context of start-ups is also useful for students to better understand the challenges of organizational growth. There are two rounds of a competitive exercise where small teams build towers from solo cups. In addition to the business concept of scalability, the exercise highlights the need for planning and the need for different skills sets, which sets up the concept of “talent to task”. This simple exercise can be implemented in multiple classroom settings.

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