WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD? Plato: For the greater good. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Oliver North: National Security was at stake. Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees. Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast. Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason. Ronald Reagan: I forget. Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. Captain James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. Salvador Dali: Fish. McKinsey Consultant: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. McKinsey , in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), McKinsey helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a program management framework. McKinsey convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with McKinsey consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day off-site in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held a luxury resort enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. McKinsey & Company helped the chicken change to become more successful. _____________________________________________________________________ Why God never got a Ph.D 1. He had only one major publication 2. It was in Hebrew 3. It had no references 4. Some even doubt he wrote it 5. It may be true that he created the world, but what had he done since then? 6. The scientific community had had a hard time replicating his results 7. He never applied to the Ethics Board for permission to use human subjects 8. When one experiment went awry, he tried to cover it up by drowning the subjects 9. When subjects didn't behave as he predicted, he deleted them from his sample 10. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the book 11. Some say he had his son teach the class 12. He kicked out his first two students for learning 13. Although there were only 10 requirements, most students failed his tests 14. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on mountaintop