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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
A Surly Wonk? -- I subscribe to a Google feed that let's me know when topics related to the Theory of Constraints hits the press. Most are usually PR pieces by consultants or software vendors. This one's a less than laudatory review, by a local business columnist, of Eli Goldratt's recent Viable Vision seminar in Denver...
The surly wonk swaggered in a white shirt, unbuttoned at the top. Once a soldier in the Israeli army, he raised his voice like a commander, his mouth on a wireless mike and his finger on the button of a slideshow projector. He began his points with maverick bravado and ended them with rhetorical demands for agreement: “Is that understood? Yes or no?”
Many cried back a hearty “yes,” proving the maxim that the more you pay consultants, the more you’ll let them patronize you.
Ouch. But it does sound like Eli's road shows.
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