Action speaks the man.

First of all, I must inform you that the concept of a car with square wheels is not mine - I heard it long ago at a presentation on lateral thinking. It is with some credit to the presenter that the lesson is learned and I am now using the concept in a new way.

Leaders from two different countries attended a forum on action-orientation and was presented with the challenge of building a car with square wheels. This action will help propel their 'developing' country a little notch up the economic and technological ladder.

One leader went back and presented the challenge to his cabinet and national think tank and action committee. Pondering over the challenge, they explored ways to make that concept a possible reality given the improbablility of the concept. They ended with a fantatic array of technological innovations based on a suspension system that would have made the car with square wheels possible and went on to become a technological leader in that field.

The other leader went back home and consulted his economic advisers on how much money they can make in preparing to build a car with square wheels and made it possible. Contracts worth millions were given up towards drawing up the specifications for a car with square wheels while billions were given out for the infrastructure required for the car with square wheels to work based on different axle widths for the square threaded roads. Contracts were then awarded to start building the square threaded roads and when public outcry denounced the stupidity of the project, it was finally cancelled 'in order to save the country billions' that would have been wasted.

Now where have I heard of this before?