Michael Allen's 2009 e-Learning Annual

6.4. SO LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN

The training vendor comes into the organization and meets with the VP of sales and marketing. He says to the VP, "I will take Arthur out of the organization for five weeks. I will train Arthur during those five weeks, but he will have no contact with any of his clients during that time. There will be no access to telephone, computer, or PDA. However, during those five weeks, I will pump Arthur's brain full of very useful information. He will be a wealth of knowledge by the time he comes back to his job in five weeks time, and I will only charge you $1,000,000 for this training session. And the second week that Arthur comes back from training he will increase the company's revenue by $3,000,000. Should I start now?" ...