You Are in a Helicopter<\/b><\/p>\n
A helicopter was flying toward Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all the aircraft\u2019s navigation and communications equipment. Due to the extreme haze that day, the pilot now had no way of determining the course to the airport. All he could make out was a tall building nearby, so he moved closer to it, quickly wrote out a large sign reading \u201cWhere am I?\u201d and held it in the chopper\u2019s window.<\/p>\n
Responding quickly, the people in the building penned a large sign of their own. It read: \u201cYou are in a helicopter.\u201d The pilot smiled, and within minutes he landed safely at the airport. After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked how the sign helped him determine their position.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew it had to be the Microsoft building,\u201d the pilot replied, \u201cbecause like any computer company\u2019s help staff, they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reader\u2019s Digest, Contributed by Linda A. Tozer, August, 1997, p. 26<\/p>\n
The Chairman<\/b><\/p>\n
When Irving S. Olds was chairman of the U.S. Steel Corporation, he arrived for a stockholders\u2019 meeting and was confronted by a woman who asked, \u201cExactly who are you and what do you do?\u201d Without batting an eye, Olds replied, \u201cI am your chairman. Of course, you know the duties of a chairman\u2014that\u2019s someone who is roughly the equivalent of parsley on a platter of fish.\u201d <\/p>\n
Bits and Pieces, June 27, 1991, p. 7<\/p>\n
Handy Post It\u2019s<\/b><\/p>\n
As with many innovations, the originator of 3M\u2019s sticky yellow Post-its didn\u2019t know what he had\u2014at first. Researcher Spence Sliver saw curious about what would happen if he mixed an unusual amount of monomer into a polymer-based adhesive he was working on. The result was an adhesive that would \u201ctack\u201d one piece of paper to another and even restick, without leaving any residue on the second piece of paper. The company had no use for the new adhesive until 3M chemist Arthur Fry began having problems in the choir loft. The slips of paper he used to mark pages in his hymnal often fluttered to the floor, leaving him frantically searching for his place. Then he remembered Silver\u2019s adhesive. Fry\u2019s better bookmark soon metamorphosed into the handy Post-its that have become a fixture in offices throughout the country. <\/p>\n
Discipleship Journal, Issue #48, p. 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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