Hi Shaleen, thanks for your comments. Let me try to answer both the queries.
1. Applicability of the Exercise
We have seen it work well for quite a few of our corporate clients. As mentioned in the article, it works especially well when you have senior management groups who might be a bit skeptical about conventional team-building activities, which often turn out to be a day of fun minus the learning component. We have found it useful for visioning exercises for teams where the team is trying to set a direction to follow for a specific time frame, either medium or long term.
2. Why Choose This Exercise?
Like you said, there are quite a few other exercises as well that achieve similar objectives. This is just one among the many that could be used. As mentioned earlier, this works best when you have small senior management teams where members have known each other for some time at least and are comfortable sharing with each other because the discussions can be quite deep and engaging. Therefore, it is important to have a certain level of mutual trust before the exercise so that they are comfortable sharing, especially their vulnerabilities.
I will try to share more exercises around the same as well. Do let me know if you have any other queries.
Regards,
Rakesh [Phone Number Removed For Privacy Reasons]