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Patience, Grasshopper

Walking into the office the other day I noticed something.  We have a spot on the main floor just inside the employees-only-beyond-this-point doors where a poster is frequently displayed.  The poster rotates from time to time as it advertises things like upcoming employee events, training classes and other assorted items.  On this particular occasion the poster was a teaser for some announcements that were going to be made. Once a year every employee is asked to participate in an employee satisfaction survey.  I'm sure many, if not all, of my fellow Corporate Americans have participated in a similar survey.  What I've noticed throughout the years is that the larger a corporation, the longer it takes to digest the results of the survey and come up with a plan based on that feedback.  It turned out to be no different in this case as we had taken the survey several months ago and only now were we about to find out the results.  The creators of the poster no doubt understood the