This guy has been commissioned to create a one minute firework ‘event’ in London tommorrow. What a great job. Make a firework display, only one minute long. Some bloke wrote a bunch of books about the “One Minute Maager”, in which he described how to manage, funnily enough, in one minute. The guy was a genius – make loads of money based on a ludicrous notion that you wrote on the back of a fag packet in a strip bar in Dallas once.
I want to be a one minute CEO. Walk into a company with all the staff lined up and waiting and give the company a new strategic operational vision target, based on the time of day, the look of the people, and a vague guess about what the company may or may not produce:
“Sell pork bellies!”
“Sell a new line of singing birthday cards for the Chinese – there’s loads of them.”
“Heat the Indian Ocean, and plant underwater rice.”