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Thursday, September 23, 2004
Big Applause -- It's September. That means it's the restart of the professional association rubber chicken dinner season. As a former independent consultant, I've done plenty of those over the last 7 years, networking and speaking at a long list of APICS, IIE, ASQ, and PMI meeting. There's a few more left on my calendar this year -- presentations that were committed prior to re-joining what I've come to refer to as the world of regular paychecks and group medical insurance. Last night I spoke to the Tappan Zee section of ASQ on the subject of Beyond the Fishbone: Root Cause Analysis for Complex Systems, and got the biggest round of applause I've ever gotten at such a talk.
Unfortunately, the applause was at the beginning, not the end of my presentation...
In my introduction, I referred to my recent change of employment situation and mentioned that one side effect was that I didn't have to worry about sneaking a sales pitch into or under the content of the presentation. That simple comment "brought down the house."
Oh well...
(That said, it was one of my better, most comfortable performances, without the stress of feeling I needed to impress someone for possible near term business.)
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