Brad Kenney
6/29/2008, 10:29 PM
Just read an interesting story (http://www.newsweek.com/id/142632/output/print) about how a high-tech manufacturer uses a psychic to facilitate interdepartmental communication:
Seagate's executive director of software engineering, Gabriel Lawson, invited Laura Day—a stylish New Yorker with no tech experience—to train his Colorado-based team. "She was amazing," Lawson tells NEWSWEEK, recalling Day's quick insights into the poor coordination between the company's research and marketing teams.
I'm no psychic myself, but I can just imagine the marketing guy turning to the R&D guy, and asking him, "What am I, a mind reader?" (And then the divisional VP gets his "lightbulb moment," and even if you're no pyschic either you can easily see how this one ends.)
The story mentions a number of mentalists with CEO-stocked rolodexes, and makes the observation that "...just as there are no atheists in foxholes, a bleak business climate can make believers out of anyone."
If there's a sucker born every minute, I wonder what the rate is for conversion? And is it going up?
Seagate's executive director of software engineering, Gabriel Lawson, invited Laura Day—a stylish New Yorker with no tech experience—to train his Colorado-based team. "She was amazing," Lawson tells NEWSWEEK, recalling Day's quick insights into the poor coordination between the company's research and marketing teams.
I'm no psychic myself, but I can just imagine the marketing guy turning to the R&D guy, and asking him, "What am I, a mind reader?" (And then the divisional VP gets his "lightbulb moment," and even if you're no pyschic either you can easily see how this one ends.)
The story mentions a number of mentalists with CEO-stocked rolodexes, and makes the observation that "...just as there are no atheists in foxholes, a bleak business climate can make believers out of anyone."
If there's a sucker born every minute, I wonder what the rate is for conversion? And is it going up?