[Ailist] Examples of great provocative propositions?

[Mike Sands]

This one came from The Unitarian Church of Vancouver

"We are easy to get to know",

When I first heard it I was not very impressed.  Later I had a chance to 
work with a group of people in making specific plans to "make it so"  It 
turned out to be challengiing, engaging, uniting - simple, elegant, 
powerful. It uncovered an enduring ideal.

Mike





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From: "Andy Smith" <andy at ai-consulting.co.uk>
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Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 12:35 AM
Subject: [Ailist] Examples of great provocative propositions?


>I am having real difficulty finding examples of provocative propositions
> which live up to the criterion of being exciting and engaging. Most of the
> examples I have seen on the web seemed to be stuffed with business 
> verbiage
> (like "leverage") and dry abstract concepts (like "stakeholder value") and
> it's hard to imagine anyone getting excited about them. Hardly any are
> written in a way that make them vivid and tell stories.
>
> As an example of one that I did think was exciting, here's one that Tim
> Slack of Appreciative People in Liverpool, England shared with me from a
> church group that his company worked with - as best I can remember it:
>
> "The bishop visited our church today, and she brought her girlfriend"
>
> Any more like that, which paint a vivid picture?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy Smith
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