Trump's firing of the Director of Labor Statistics reminds me of a confrontation half a century ago at General Mills. A young market researcher of mine was presenting to our Exec VP results of a comparative consumer taste test between a new product and its competitors. The product team, developers, and all of us sat in a conference room, with slides projected on the screen at one end, the Exec VP, who was very enamored of the product and its market, enthroned at the other.
As disappointingly lackluster results rolled out, suddenly the EVP burst in: "I don't like your numbers." The room audibly inhaled. My research guy, a bit nonplussed, paused and then responded "Well -- I don't like your tie." Now the group inhale turned to a group gasp.
After what seemed an interminable gap, the EVP burst out laughing. To his great credit.
The tie is a tie; the numbers are the numbers. So be it.
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