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UT |
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29-May-2002-20:12:52 |
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Homespun wisdom |
'Way back in the stone age I worked for a company that had a very elderly CEO...in his eighties. Because of the project I was working on, I had to attend corporate meetings, where he presided...sort of. Most of the time he just sat there quietly with his eyes closed and let everyone else speak. Everybody usually thought he was nodding off and ignored him. But at one of those meetings, a rather hostile one where everybody was yelling at everybody else and trying to affix blame for a bad situation, someone who rarely spoke at such meetings made a suggestion and the old guy opened his eyes and pointed at the speaker and said something like, "There! Did you hear that?! Repeat what you just said!" The guy who had spoken repeated his suggestion with a terrified look on his face, like he was afraid that he was about to lose his job, but the CEO continued, "You're the only person in this meeting who has made a suggestion about how to move into the future with this situation that did not dwell on the past or attempt to blame someone for causing it in the first place."
I wish the old guy hadn't died. I would've liked to have him running the peace talks in the Middle East.
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