
Life goes on within you and without you.
Author: George Harrison
MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
Author: Doug Ferrari
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Author: Saskya Pandita
Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
Author: Jean Baptiste Montegut
Mustard's no good without roast beef.
Author: Chico Marx

An American automobile company and a Japanese
auto
company decided to have a competitive boat race on the Detroit
River. Both
teams practiced hard and long to reach their peak
performance. On the
big day, they were as ready as they could
be.
The Japanese team won by a mile.
Afterwards, the American team
became discouraged by the loss and their
morale sagged. Corporate
management decided that the reason for the
crushing defeat had to be
found. A Continuous Measurable Improvement Team
of "Executives" was
set up to investigate the problem and to
recommend appropriate
corrective action.
Their conclusion: The problem was that the
Japanese team had 8 people
rowing and 1 person steering, whereas the
American team had 1 person
rowing and 8 people steering. The American
Corporate Steering Committee
immediately hired a consulting firm to
do a study on the management
structure.
After some t
ime and billions of dollars, the consulting firm concluded
that
"too many people were steering and not enough rowing." To
prevent
losing to the Japanese again next year, the management structure was
changed to "4 Steering Managers, 3 Area Steering Managers, and 1 Staff
Steering Manager" and a new performance system for the person rowing
the boat to give more incentive to work harder and become a six
sigma
performer. "We must give him empowerment and enrichment." That
ought to
do it.
The next year the Japanese team won by two
miles.
The American Corporation laid off the rower for poor
performance, sold
all of the paddles, cancelled all capital investments
for new
equipment, halted development of a new canoe, awarded high
performance awards to
the consulting firm, and distributed the money
saved as bonuses to the
senior executives.
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes
The world is divided into two groups. There
are those who
know, and those who don't know. Those who know are no
problem.
Those who don't know are also in two
groups.
One is those who don't know and know they don't know. Well, they can
learn!
But then, there are those who don't know, and don't
know they don't
know. And they become unit managers!
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes
Q: Why did the bank drive-up window teller
have
tire tread marks across the back of his grey suit?
A:
From crawling across the street when the sign said: "Don't
Walk."
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes
A wealthy investor walked into a bank and
said to the
bank manager, "I would like to speak with Mr. Reginald
Jones, who I
understand is a tried and trusted employee of
yours."
The banker said, "Yes he certainly was trusted. And he will be
tried
as soon as we catch him."
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes
An American manufacturer is showing his
machine factory to a
potential customer from Albania. At noon, when the
lunch whistle blows,
two thousand men and women immediately stop
work and leave the building.
"Your workers, they're escaping!"
cries the visitor. "You've got
to stop them."
"Don't worry,
they'll be back," says the American. And indeed, at
exactly one
o'clock the whistle blows again, and all the workers return
from
their break.
When the tour is over, the manufacturer turns to his
guest and says,
"Well, now, which of these machines would you like
to order?"
"Forget the machines," says the visitor. "How much do
you want for
that whistle?"
This is the joke from a category: Business jokes