“Attending a committee meeting and going to the toilet are in many ways similar. In both the places you go sit down, make a lot of noise and finally the matter is dropped.” I haven’t yet used [...]
Recently I used this anecdote to amplify my point about the need to be agile and move swiftly by anticipating customer needs in a session on ‘ Change Faster’ for a group of marketing [...]
I was talking to a team of salesmen about voice modulation (rate, pitch and volume) and used this comment by Barry Goldwater about Hubert Humphrey as a speech opener and the analogy stuck [...]