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Points of View on the Glass

Half full?

Half Empty?

Or something else??

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“The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. ”

THE PROJECT MANAGER

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The cynic... wonders who drank the other half. 

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“it's not about whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's whetherthere is something in the glass at all.”

THE SCHOOL TEACHER

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The professional trainer doesn’t care, he just knows that starting the discussion will give him 10 minutes to figure out why his powerpoint presentation isn’t working.

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“ sweetheart it's whatever you want it to be, just please let mummy have 5 minutes peace & quiet.”

The ground-down mother of a persistently demanding five-year-old says..

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let's examine the questi on,

prepare a strategy for an answer, and all for a daily rate

of...

THE CONSULTANT

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Oh!The remaining half

will evaporate by next morning…….

The Worrier

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The magician will show you the glass with the full half at the top.

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The waiter will hurry to replace theglass with a full one.

For him there are no doubts: the glass was empty when he took it away; it is full in the

bill that he brings you.

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The entrepreneur sees the glass as undervalued by half its potential.

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The psychiatrist

"Is the half-empty/half-full glass really that important? I mean... really? Think about it. If fact, let's not. Let's set that particular issue aside for a few moments and talk about what's really bothering you.."

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The musician says he is unimpressed with the promoter of the concert for not providing more alcohol.

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“next year the glass capacity will double, be half the price, but cost you 50% more for me to give you the answer. ”

The computer specialist says that

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The physician says that the glass is not empty at all - it is half-filled with water and half-filled with air - hence, fully filled on the whole!

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The ineffective organization would discuss the question during the board of directors meeting, convene a committee to research the problem, and assign tasks for a root cause analysis, usually without a complete explanation of the problem to those assigned the tasks.

The directors would consider the problem to be above the pay grade of those assigned root cause analysis tasks.

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The algebraic simultaneous equation theorist says that if the glass is equally half full and half empty, then…..

half full(b) = half empty(a);therefore ½ x b = ½ x a;therefore (by multiplying both sides of the equation by 2) we show that b = a;i.e. Full equals Empty!

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The 'perfect' 1950s housewife would not leave the glass sitting there long enough for anyone to consider the question, but would scoop it up, wash it up, dry it to a gleaming shine and put it back in the glass cabinet in a jiffy. No half-full or half-empty in her world... just a full glass or an untidy one.

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The same glass..The same amount of water…

Different views…

None of these are right;none of these are wrong…

They are just different !!NPS


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