6.3. THINK ABOUT THIS

A training vendor comes into an 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. Should I start now?"

What do you think the VP would say to this? It would probably be full of expletives and end with something like "... ...

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