Columns & Opinion
September 20, 2024
Failed Expectations
Have you ever noticed that sometimes things just don’t turn out the way you expected them to? They can be good ideas, but at the moment they are first introduced, they don’t produce the expected or advertised results. I remember reading Lee Iacocca’s book, Iacocca. In it he tells of introducing the new padded dashboard on their newest cars. The dashboards were supposed to be soft enough that you could drop an egg on it without breaking the egg. In actual demonstration, it didn’t turn out quite that way.