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One
Last week a workmen’s café in the small town of Bourges in France was flooded with phone
calls from customers wanting to book tables. It happened after Michelin, the company that
publishes highly influential restaurant guides, awarded it with a prestigious star. Imagine how
astonished reporters and prospective customers were when they turned up at an inexpensive
eatery with plastic tablecloths. A Michelin Guide representative soon phoned the owner to
apologise. It turned out that they had confused the café with a more refined establishment of
the same name and a similar address, located near Paris.
adapted from www.eater.com
Two
In the U.S. about 30 million children take part in some form of organized sporting events and
suffer from 3.5 million injuries each year. According to surveys, approximately one third of all
the injuries which occur in childhood result from doing sports, and by far the most common are
sprains and strains. Obviously, some sports are more risk-prone than others. I’m sure that
contact sports like football carry a higher risk of injury than non-contact sports such as
swimming. Interestingly, a recently published large-scale study has revealed that, regardless of
the type of sport we do, the majority of injuries occur due to overtraining.
adapted from www.hopkinsmedicine.org
Three
Imagine a seminar attended by 50 people, during which they are taken to a room full of balloons
and told to find the balloon with their name written on it within 5 minutes. Usually you’d expect
everyone to be frantically searching for the right balloon, pushing each other; some might even
get hurt in the process. However, I decided to apply a different method. I instructed people to
randomly pick up a balloon and shout the name written on it. The owner would then step
forward to collect their balloon. This way, within minutes everyone had their balloons. If you
want your team to work efficiently, it’s crucial to select the most effective method of coping
with a job. Why not carry out both variants of this experiment? Make sure your employees can
see the difference!
adapted from http://diply.com