[HBR] another take on "all talk..."

[Joe LeKostaj]

At 6:44 PM -0400 4/26/02, waltah@cfw.com wrote:
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>All talk, no action in the HBR department for the last year.

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Walt's tag line reminds me of a humorous sign I used to see at the 
Tokyo office of a company I used to work for. In the kind of broken 
syntax that I have to admire from anyone who has struggled to learn 
English as a second language, the sign exhorted us "NOT TO BE NATO". 
It was explained to me that NATO meant "No Action, Talk Only"!

Furthermore, that acronym wasn't pronounced NAY-toh (as in the 
military alliance), but nah-toh. Same pronunciation as the Japanese 
word for fermented soy bean paste which (to me) is a rather 
foul-smelling substance. It's a worthy goal not to be considered NATO 
in either context!  ;-)

73,
Joe K9LY (still scrounging parts; consider me NATO for now!)