just to demonstrate one line of well paid "work", I forwarded this bit. Eva I've long been of the opinion that much (maybe most) of what passes for reality in the business world is nothing more than empty doubletalk, with no more substance than astrology or any other woo-woo delusion. Here's more evidence: Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams scammed a bunch of computer executives at Logitech in San Jose last month by posing as a business consultant named "Ray Mebert." He delivered a speech outlining a business plan the execs, who all seemed to enthusiastically go along with it. Wearing a wig and fake moustache, Adams told the group that his credentials included work on the "Taste Bright Project" at Proctor & Gamble, a project to boost the sales of soap by making it taste better. He said that focus groups found that many people admitted to tasting soap. He then went on to develop a new mission statement for Logitech, and had the executives suggest ideas to add to it. The final mission statement was: "The New Ventures Mission is to scout profitable growth opportunities in relationships, both internally and externally, in emerging, mission inclusive markets, and then filter and communicate and evangelize the findings." A mess of meaningless doubletalk and buzzwords fit for Dogbert if ever there was one. At the end, "Mebert" said he would draw one more diagram that would bring the whole session into focus. He drew a picture of Dilbert, pulled off his wig, and said "you've all been had." Rumors that the executives implemented the mission statement anyway appear to be unfounded ;-) *************** Regards, Dave Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> **************** As much as the author would like to spend precious minutes of the rapidly- dwindling time remaining in his life responding to your kind and thoughtful letter about how he is going to spend eternity in a lake of fire being eaten by rats, he regrets that he is unable to do so, due to the volume of such mail received. ************ http://www.gentech.com/~employee/david/home.htm *************** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
