by the rest of the world.
Get this. A co-worker of mine recently went to a sales seminar in the states. Our company is a multi-national company with offices on every continent. Part of the seminar consisted of breaking into smaller groups and meeting with a motivational speaker who just happend to be a former US military flyer(retired). The thrust of the whole session was that we must treat our competitors as the enemy. All motivation was couched in military terms....sortie, mission, bombing run, direct hit, confirmed kills...you get the picture. The presentation was accompanied by power-point presentations of our enemies being blown into small bits(cartoon and actual pictures of targets destroyed by "bunker-busters"). At the end of the presentation medals were presented for those with the highest kill ratios.
At very best, and considering the current politcal climate, this could be considered in very poor taste and extremely inappropriate for a business conference. At worst, it's obscene. A much better choice would have been to simulate a sports scenario(football being a good example), but, apparantly, that wasn't considered "sexy" enough.(thats a quote from the people putting on the seminar).
WTF is wrong with the Americans?
Get this. A co-worker of mine recently went to a sales seminar in the states. Our company is a multi-national company with offices on every continent. Part of the seminar consisted of breaking into smaller groups and meeting with a motivational speaker who just happend to be a former US military flyer(retired). The thrust of the whole session was that we must treat our competitors as the enemy. All motivation was couched in military terms....sortie, mission, bombing run, direct hit, confirmed kills...you get the picture. The presentation was accompanied by power-point presentations of our enemies being blown into small bits(cartoon and actual pictures of targets destroyed by "bunker-busters"). At the end of the presentation medals were presented for those with the highest kill ratios.
At very best, and considering the current politcal climate, this could be considered in very poor taste and extremely inappropriate for a business conference. At worst, it's obscene. A much better choice would have been to simulate a sports scenario(football being a good example), but, apparantly, that wasn't considered "sexy" enough.(thats a quote from the people putting on the seminar).
WTF is wrong with the Americans?