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Joe: “Keep it that way.”
Us: “OK”
Joe: After skimming our writing and organization chart,
“How come you guys are so gutless? You showed a
functional organization chart, but put no names in the
boxes.”
Us: “We actually made a chart with names, but thought
you might have felt we went too far. Here’s the only
existing copy of the chart-with-names.” We had also put
our names in key supervisory boxes while we were at it.
Joe: “OK-get the hell out of my office and do not mention
this to anybody - got it?”
Us: “OK
About a year or so later Joe had reorganized the entire
department and, in fact, not only used some of our
suggestions but had gone well beyond them. Years later I
got back Joe’s copy of the report with an almost
unintelligible note on the cover that said: “Did I do OK?”
Hank and I continued our progression.
