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<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Paul Everett wrote in May:</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>...<BR>I remember challenging our top
management on this planning bit because they started in July for the following
year. Several thousand man-months were absorbed by what was really a
financial issue. I suggested that we throw bones and say that is what the
markets were going to be like---bounded instability. (I told them the
story of the Canadian Indian tribe who's Shaman threw bones to decide where to
hunt. Worked wonderfully for some incredible reasons, too long to
type). Trying to say what reality was going to be <FONT color="#000000"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><I><B>never</I></B></FONT><FONT color="#000000"
FAMILY="SANSSERIF"> worked. The variances between plan and actual were all
over the map, from deep losses to huge profits, none of which were planned,
which I pointed out. I guess it would have been cooler if I had suggested
something using stochastics or some other mathematical model but I thought
throwing bones would do and then we could get on with the business of dealing
with the emerging markets and realities as they arrived. Needless to say
there was pained silence all around and a few guffaws. We didn't do
it.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2 color=#0000a0>Paul,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2 color=#0000a0>this is one of the many mails that put a big smile out of pure joy on my
face. (As I please myself today with reading hundreds of mails from this list which I
saved in my "still to read folder" during the last three months, not
having had the heart to delete them - and wise have I been not to!
I am down from 681 to 146, uff..:) ) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#0000a0 size=2>Back to your posting: I wish I had been
there at that meeting.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2 color=#0000a0>And now - being given your little finger I want
the whole hand! <BR> Please, share the story of the Canadian Indian tribe
and why throwing bones worked. I am sure it's a great one.<BR>What would I need
to offer on this market place of conversation to make you start
typing?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2 color=#0000a0>If you come to Halifax: I could pay with a ten minute
massage (which you might need after a lot off typing). More of this I am
going to offer there for the Acess Queen auction inspired by Koos who did it in
Svenmark - with great sucess as I recall.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#0000a0 size=2>Interested?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2 color=#0000a0>Still smiling from one ear to the other,
<BR>Marei</FONT></P>
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