| Stone-Inspired Moon Visions By Wily The Holiday Inn served Skillet Inspirations. The meeting room banner screamed INSPIRED SOLUTIONS. The stone-inspired corporate leader called his employees together for motivational healing. Guiding hands were laid upon them and they saw visions of dynamic solutions in their future. Now empowered to the level of inspired associate they were rewarded a trip to the moon for a solutions development conference. The moon trip started with a pretty-good pre-flight HBO movie about John. F. Kennedy’s challenge, “We choose to go to the moon.” Appropriately inspired, they climbed aboard a clip-art rocket controlled by HR associates and blasted off on a long-inspired ride to Mediocrityville on the Moon. Visions of moon stones danced in their heads. To pass the time they made an empowered decision to replay the “go to the moon” movie and were inspired to see it had evolved into the year 2001. There was Kennedy, wearing an ATF jacket, speaking on and on and surrounded by yes associates. The yes associates nodded and smiled as he declared “We will inspire our government associates to create dynamic solutions that provide lasting competitive advantages to our moon-mission partners against the Russians and there comrade moon associates.” The government associates and the yes associates applauded wildly and were so impacted they relieved their solutions. Golden solutions flowed down the stone-cold capitol steps and froze in the winter weather. The government associates quickly ordered in the army associates to flame the solutions into dynamic inspiration. The yes associates were so inspired by the whole scene they trampled Kennedy as they surged ahead. Kennedy was so impacted by the trampling he was rushed to a nearby hospital by frantic rescue associates. All the yes associates and the others gathered around their web-sites anxiously awaiting news of their fallen associate hero. The associate lady arrived to pray for life giving solutions. The doctor associates trickled expired solutions into Kennedy from a bag taken from corporate solution donors. All was going inspiringly well until a solution-type mismatch was discovered. Kennedy, a type-A personality as everyone knew, had been administered type-B solutions. Now all was certainly lost. Kennedy would rise up from his gurney to speak again only to lapse into a type-B inspired couch coma. The anxious associates could only watch the clock and pray. When the clock rolled past midnight on 02/02/02 it happened. All the great machines of the 20th century crashed and burned. The feared Y2K bug had cleverly waited for another day. The clip-art rocket sputtered and fell to earth. All the associates lost all inspiration as solutions flowed in the streets. But on the 11th hour Kennedy arose from the coma and ascended into the oval office. He found healing winds under the oval office desk and his recovery was miraculous. On this wonderful Groundhog Day he was able to stand erect and address the people. As leader of the world he declared the year to be 1902. What a leader! In one simple declaration he had turned back the wily Y2K bug. And so it was 1902 and all was well. But Kennedy continued to speak, “Before this century is out we will go to the moon. We will invent the airplane and the air-traffic controller. We will invent the atomic bomb and the boom box. We will invent the computer and the mouse. We will invent the television and the soap opera. We will do these and the other things, and we will do it right. And if we don’t do it right, we will do it again until we get it right.” This is why man is doomed to live forevermore in the 20th century. |