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Chapter 9 Maintaining a Balanced Diet of... > Chapter 9 Maintaining a Balanced Die... - Pg. 140

140 Creating Passion-Driven Teams This was the problem at Carl's workplace. During a monthly committee meeting, it was determined that the procedure for a task Carl performed was to be changed. Because Carl knew the procedure inside and out, he sketched out the changes ac- cording to what they had wanted and handed them to the person chairing the meeting. But rather than accept Carl's input, the chair appointed Carl to sit on a review committee, which would meet for two or three days to determine the best solution. Suffice it to say Carl that was not impressed, but being a good soldier, he went. Three days later, nothing was resolved and the review committee chair was upset. "I need something, people," he said, "we need a solution." Carl had heard enough. Once again he sketched out the solution, but he also took out another piece of paper and scribbled a few sentences. Then he got up and handed both papers to the chair. "What's this?" the