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Management Case Study No.1
> >>
> >>The manager of a large corporation got a heart attack, and the Doctor
told
> >>him to go for several weeks to a farm to relax. The guy went to a farm,
> >>and
> >>after a couple of days he was very bored, so he asked the farmer to
give
> >>him some job to do. The farmer told him to clean the shit of the cows.
The
> >>farmer thought that to somebody coming from the city, working the whole
> >>life sitting in an office, it will take over a week to finish the job,
but
> >>to his surprise the manager finished the job in less than one day.
> >>
> >>The next day the farmer gave to the manager a more difficult job: to
cut
> >>the heads of 500 chickens. The farmer was sure that the manager will
not
> >>be
> >>able to do the job, but at the end of the day the job was done.
> >>
> >>The next morning, as most of the jobs in the farm were done, the farmer
> >>asked the manager to divide a bag of potatoes in two boxes: one box
with
> >>small potatoes, and one box with big potatoes. At the end of the day
the
> >>farmer saw that the manager was sitting in front of the potatoes bag,
but
> >>the two boxes were empty.
> >>
> >>The farmer asked the manager: "How is that you did such difficult jobs
> >>during the first days, and now you cannot do this simple job?"
> >>
> >>The manager answered: "Listen, all my life I'm cutting heads and
dealing
> >>with shit, but now you ask me to make decisions!"
> >>
> >>Management Case Study No.2
> >>
> >>A man goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot.
> >>
> >>The shop owner points to three identical looking parrots on a perch and
> >>says, "the parrot on the left costs $500". "Why does the parrot cost so
> >>much," asks the man.
> >>
> >>The shop owner says, "well, the parrot knows how to use a computer".
> >>
> >>The man then asks about the next parrot to be told that this one costs
> >>$1,000 because it can do everything the other parrot can do plus it
knows
> >>how to use the UNIX operating system.
> >>
> >>Naturally, the increasingly startled man asks about the third Parrot to
be
> >>told that it costs $2,000. Needless to say this begs the
question, "What
> >>can it do?"
> >>
> >>To which the shop owner replies, "to be honest I have never seen it do
a
> >>thing, but the other two call him boss!"
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