Excerpt of the yearly strategy-meeting of a well-known research-institution:
Senior manager: "Let's sum up, how last year's strategy worked out - could you please give some short comments on that?"
Researcher: "Sorry, but last year we agreed on nailing our strategy down, but we never did. Additionally we tried to get our feet on the ground in 2 areas of research, which didn't work out and we tried to fix our resource-problem with the classes, which also was not solved."
Senior manager: "Please... don't think in problems! Think in solutions!"
(... short discussion with no result ...)
Senior manager: "Ok, fine! Good to hear that our last year's strategy was a real success - I think we just keep the same strategy for the next year, it seems to be perfect! Let's discuss the next topic."
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