Training Seminar

"Office Temperature"*

*In the office where I work, there is a constant battle
between our technical-support director and customer-service
personnel over the room temperature, which is usually too low.

The frustrated director, trying to get us to understand his
position, announced one afternoon, "We need to keep the
temperature below seventy-five degrees or the computers will overheat."

Thinking that this was just another excuse, one of my
shivering colleagues retorted, "Yeah right. So how did they
keep the computers from overheating before there was air conditioning?"

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"Training Seminar"*

*A group of junior-level executives were participating in
a management training program. The seminar leader
pounded home his point about the need to make
decisions and take action on these decisions.

"For instance," he said, "if you had five frogs on a log
and three of them decided to jump, how many frogs
would you have left on the log?"

The answers from the group were unanimous: "Two."

"Wrong," replied the speaker, "there would still be five
because there is a difference between deciding to
jump and jumping."
Received on Mon Oct 25 15:49:56 2010