Cause and Effect
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Day 2 - Cause and Effect
It's fluorescent pink, the size and shape of a football scarf, it's
stretchy and smells like a condom. It's a Cause and Effect Stretchy
Strip. And it's ours to keep.
The Cause and Effect Stretchy Strip is a work tool which demonstrates
the gap between vision and current reality. With unattainable vision,
the Cause and Effect Stretchy Strip will snap. With no notion of
current reality, the Cause and Effect Stretchy Strip will be floppy and
lifeless. Jeremy tugs and stretches his demonstration model Cause and
Effect Stretchy Strip to make the point.
Then from nowhere the music starts, launching our hearts into orbit
with unannounced ferocity. James Brown. Telling us with more volume
than is really necessary to make the point, and with just a little
millionaire-singer-songwriter smugness, how bloody good he feels. It's
a change from Eye of the Tiger and Simply the Best, I guess, which have
been pumped up to pump us up, at various points over the last 24
hours.
Jerry invites us to leave the comfort zone of our seat. And soon we are
dancing. Yes, dancing. All of us. The entirety of this diverse troop of
almost exclusively white men, who are all terribly earnest in our
analysis of economic performance and delivery of roadmap objectives,
and who usually sit motionless and attentive during group feed-back,
sipping thoughtfully on our decaf, the steam rising unnoticed across
the lenses of our frameless titanium spectacles.
We are all up there. Even the old techie-looking one, who stands with
his back to me, all six-foot eight of him, a bald pate gleaming under
the strip lights, emerging like a sun-bathed snowy peak from the curly
forestation covering the lower slopes of his skull. Even he is lifting
his knees to the rhythm, rotating his fists like a choo-choo
train.
We pull the fluorescent pink, condom-scented Cause and Effect Stretchy
Strip across our shoulders, elongate it across our chests, flex it over
our knees. We smile uncomfortably. We bump accidentally into one
another, exchanging shrugged grins. Then we greet the early fading of
the beat with relief. We return to our comfort zones.
We feel good. Yes. Now that we are sitting down again, we feel
good.
Really.
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