Departmental Test
The
MD wanted to evaluate the initiative of his employees, so at the next weekly
meeting he presented the Finance, Sales and IT department with a task.
He
said "Next
week I want each of you to give a talk using these as the central prop" and
handed each department two ball bearings.
The
following week the departments met and gave their talks.
The
Finance department began:
"We
attached some thread to each ball and hung them both in a frame made out of
pencils selotaped together thus creating a simple Newton's Cradle.
This
helps to show the principals of the conservation of energy."
The
Sales department followed with:
"We
stretched a split balloon over the top of this waste paper basket. We then
placed one ball bearing in the middle and rolled the second ball around the
first one. This helps explain how mass distorts space, showing the effects of
gravity in two dimensions using the second ball as an orbiting object."
Then
came the IT departments turn:
"We broke one and lost
the other"