CEO logic

hymie!

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Feb 13, 2013, 12:11:11 PM2/13/13

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I generated a data usage report for our CEO. He came back with this response:

Some customers are not listed on your report. Can we get usage information
for the companies that we have no data for?

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Maarten Wiltink

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Feb 13, 2013, 12:59:05 PM2/13/13

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"hymie!" <hy...@lactose.homelinux.net> wrote in message
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> I generated a data usage report for our CEO. He came back with this
> response:
>
> Some customers are not listed on your report. Can we get usage
> information for the companies that we have no data for?

Actually, _getting_ data is exactly how you solve not having them.

Which would ruin a good joke, so let's not read it like that.

Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink

David Gersic

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Feb 13, 2013, 1:04:57 PM2/13/13

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On 13 Feb 2013 17:11:11 GMT, hymie! <hy...@lactose.homelinux.net> wrote:
> Some customers are not listed on your report. Can we get usage information
> for the companies that we have no data for?

Yes. See Figure 1.

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John F. Eldredge

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Feb 13, 2013, 10:43:41 PM2/13/13

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:13:15 -0500, AdB wrote:

> hymie! posted thus:

>>I generated a data usage report for our CEO. He came back with this
>>response:
>>
>>Some customers are not listed on your report. Can we get usage
>>information for the companies that we have no data for?
>

> ``Yes Sir! How long a column of zeroes would you like?''

I once was told, by the company president, "You must tell me this
information right now." My response was, "Well, I can give you a guess
right now, which will probably turn out to be incorrect, or I can give
you an accurate answer as soon as I find it out. Which one do you
want?". He decided to settle for the accurate answer.

--
John F. Eldredge -- jo...@jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly
is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

Wojciech Derechowski

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Feb 15, 2013, 11:45:22 PM2/15/13

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On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:43:41 +0000, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:13:15 -0500, AdB wrote:
>
>> hymie! posted thus:
>>>I generated a data usage report for our CEO. He came back with this
>>>response:
>>>
>>>Some customers are not listed on your report. Can we get usage
>>>information for the companies that we have no data for?
>>
>> ``Yes Sir! How long a column of zeroes would you like?''
>
> I once was told, by the company president, "You must tell me this
> information right now." My response was, "Well, I can give you a guess
> right now, which will probably turn out to be incorrect, or I can give
> you an accurate answer as soon as I find it out. Which one do you
> want?". He decided to settle for the accurate answer.

Or to settle for no answer at all, given the average speed of CEO's
decision making process based on inadequate information, especially
when the CEO is an MBA yearning to be a captain of industry,
someone like the colonel in the US Army; a quote from RPF:

It was great. The lieutenant takes me to the colonel and repeats my
remark. The colonel says, "Just five minutes," and then he goes to
the window and he stops and thinks. That's what they're very good at
-- making decisions. I thought it was very remarkable how a problem
of whether or not information as to how the bomb works should be in
the Oak Ridge plant had to be decided and could be decided in five
minutes. So I have a great deal of respect for these military guys,
because I never can decide anything very important in any length of
time at all.

WD
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Who is Entscheidungs and what is his problem?