Sunday, October 22, 2017
I once worked for a brilliant but erratic genius named Ben Tregoe, who founded the consulting firm I was employed by in Princeton. I eventually rose to one of the highest positions in the place, and reported to him.
One day he called me and asked me to come down to his office.This was never necessarily good, and I was wondering what was going on. I arrived and he asked me to sit down and then said, “Watch this!”
He hit a button, and his door closed. “Isn’t that great?!” he asked. With that, he got up, opened the door, then sat down and closed it again. “Do you want one for your office?” he asked.
“Wait a minute,” I said. “You can close it, but not open it remotely? The door is six feet away, but you want it to close with that button? You had this installed recently?”
“Yes, just yesterday a guy came around selling this and told me he could install it immediately. Do you want me to ask him to come back?”
“Yes.”
“So you want one installed in your office?”
“No, I want to hire the guy who sold you that.”