The past two days consisted of a snoozefest a problem-solving and decision-making workshop called Kepner-Tregoe, where they teach us how to appraise situations and find the best solutions to various problems. Yesterday we did some group stuff and looked (through our eyelids) at powerpoint slides and flipcharts, but today we looked as some very BAD decisions that have been made in the past and what potential problems the decision makers overlooked. Case in point: what do you do with a 45 foot, 8 ton dead whale when it washes up on the beach in Oregon?
Our task was to identify the potential problems associated with blowing a dead whale to smithereens. As if those are not apparently obvious.
Apparently the government of Florence, Oregon thought that the whale would vaporize– no lie, vaporize– and then the seagulls would eat whatever was left over. They did not anticipate pieces of smelly dead whale showering down on everything and everyone in a half-mile radius, or a huge piece of blubber smashing in the roof of a car a quarter of a mile away. Even after all that, there was still a huge piece of whale that remained unexploded. What a waste. They’ll just have to blow the rest of it up now, right?
Tomorrow we have the Da Vinci Challenge, aka the low ropes course, which is going to be so much fun! Pray for sun so we can have it outdoors– its been raining on and off all week. I’ll probably post again on Monday because right after the Da Vinci Challenge we hop on the bus for Interlaken, Swizerland, the extreme sports capital of the world! Many of us want to do canyoning, which involves hiking down streams and jumping off waterfalls. Sort of like the red-rock slides in Sedona. This is what it’s like:
