It’s all in how you look at it
You know that old saying about pessimists, optimists, and a half-glass of water, right? Well, the always-brilliant Tom Asacker takes it further in this post (wish I’d of thought of this one!).
- how would an engineer see the glass? Probably that it’s twice as big as it needs to be. The accountant would want to know if the glass really needs all that water…The government would say that the glass is fuller than if the opposition party were in power. The opposition would say that it is irrelevant because the present administration has changed the way such volume statistics are collected.
And he goes on—made me laugh out loud. At the end, since he’s in the marketing world, Tom asks how a marketer would see that glass. My question would be, how would a meeting planner see it?
April 22nd, 2007 at 7:38 am
The meeting planners worries about having enough glasses.
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:25 am
A meeting planner would be angry that they are paying for half-filled glasses of water, getting answers as to why they have not been filled up as instructed, as well as, finding a place to sell sponsorship connected with the half-filled glass.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:31 am
And a meeting planner would know that it wouldn’t really matter how much was in the glass - someone at the end would leave a comment in the evals that the glass was too full, too empty, too tepid, too cold or just plain didn’t taste right. And the room was too cold too!
April 24th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
How come the water in the glass wasn’t Green? And the missing half glass of water is actually a carbon offset that you can’t see!
April 24th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Can the glass be charged to the master account?
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