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Space_Monkey 01:12 pm UTC 03/13/07 |
| In reply to: | 3 minute management course - Jsteinfan 10:50 pm UTC 03/12/07 |
A man flying in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. Reducing altitude, he spotted a man on the ground and descended to shouting range.. "Excuse me," he shouted. "Can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him a half hour ago, but I don't know where I am." The man below responded: "Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North Latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees West Longitude." "You must be an engineer," responded the balloonist. "I am," the man replied. "How did you know?" "Well," said the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost." Whereupon the man on the ground responded, "You must be a manager." "That I am" replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?" "Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is, you are in the exact same position you were before we met, but now it is somehow my fault." The genie one reminded me of this: A woman finds a genie's lamp. The Genie comes out and says, "You may have three wishes, but your husband will get ten times more than what you wished for." The woman agrees. Her first wish was that she would be the most beautiful woman in the world. "You realize," the Genie said, "that your husband will be ten times more beautiful than you, and more women will gawk at him?" "That's okay," says the woman, "He'll only look at me because I will be the most beautiful women." So the wish is granted. Her second wish was that she would be the richest woman in the world. "You know your husband will ten times richer, right?" the Genie asks. "That's okay. What's mine is his and what's his is mine," replied the woman. So the wish was granted. The woman then thinks long and hard about her last wish. She finally wishes that she had a mild heart attack. | |
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