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Stop the world i want to get off!!
d.
Bruce Jones wrote:
> A more 'metaphorical' interpretation of the phrase "Don't throw out the
> baby ..." is seen all to often in today's' paradigm shifts in business.
>
> A lot of managers get frustrated with the way things are going in the
> company so they say "Change it." They start by throwing out the old system
> and starting over with a new one. Things don't work out and they wonder
> why.
>
> They essentially threw out the baby along with the bath water. They
> destroyed the core beliefs or foundations by discarding the whole process.
> Another way of saying this even though the meaning is a little different is
> "Look before you leap."
>
> Bruce Jones
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Palson [SMTP:cpalson@mediaone.net]
> > Subject: Re: Useless memes
> >
> > By this method of analysis, all words have the same problem: they are "by
> > themselves" nonsensical. Most, if not all, words are metaphors that point
> > to
> > different things through time by shifting the underlying meanings. As I
> > have
> > pointed out previously, that's why most words have many meanings. So it
> > doesn't
> > matter if it's words or phrases, a new meaning takes advantage of a lot of
> > the
> > old meaning to create new meanings. So Agnes was so disgusted with the
> > dirty
> > water that she emptied the basin before she realized that her baby was in
> > there.
> > Well, she WAS drunk, but everyone heard the story, and it lived on as a
> > metaphor
> > for a general category of event.
> [BJ]
> Really???? Hadn't heard that one before.
>
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