LSS1003 Revision of Concepts

At the very beginning of the Covid pandemic, nobody knew what was going to happen. Would the virus spread everywhere or would it disappear?

What was the main VUCA characteristic at this time?

• Volatility

• Uncertainty

• Complexity

• Ambiguity

When the oil price fell sharply and then rose again rapidly in the spring and summer of 2020, this VUCA environment can best be described as ________.

• volatile

• uncertain

• complex

• ambiguous

Which one of these is NOT part of Learning Agility?

• Flexibility

• Risk-Taking

• Collaboration

• Politics

You are asking all the members in your team about which STEEP drivers they have found for the Point of Manifestation. What aspect of Learning Agility is this?

• Flexibility

• Risk-Taking

• Communication and Collaboration

• Using and Increasing Knowledge

What is the best way to deal with the VUCA challenge AMBIGUITY?

• Planning for multiple possibilities

• Using expert knowledge and experience

• Taking calculated, structured risks

• Collecting, analyzing and interpreting information

Teacher: "I'm going to give all the students who agree with me an A." This is an example of ______.

• bias

• preference

• being unbiased

• perspective

A student arrives 20 minutes late and is marked absent by the teacher. The student thinks that the teacher dislikes him or her. This student _______.

• is making an assumption

• is biased

• is unbiased

• has unlimited perspectives

This is the correct order of steps in the Ladder of Inference.

1. Select data

2. Make assumptions

3. Create beliefs

4. Draw conclusions

5. Take actions

• True

• False

'Emirati women are getting married later these days.'

This is __________ trend.

• a social

• a technological

• an environmental

• a political

Cloud seeding is used increasingly in the UAE because the water table levels are getting lower. This is ___________ trend.

• a social

• an environmental

• an economical

• a political