Fortune's Fables: The Exec Team (Nostalgic Memories)

Say Nothing Nick was mighty quick
With a smile or a shrug or a frown
If you said “Yes,” he’d never say “No”
But he’d look thoughtfully at the ground.

I-Gotta-Plan Pete had his words down neat
About how everything could be
Fixed with a plan: “Gotta have a plan, man,
Just don’t leave the details to me.”

Quality Sue was a bit of a shrew
'Cause she knew what her word would mean:
“I’ll set the bar, I’ll shoot down your star,
If you don’t meet the standards of – me.”

Heavy Harry was extremely wary
Of anyone else but himself.
Don’t try to make a plan without this man
Or you’ll find it stuck on the back shelf.

Anxious Anne had never met a man
She couldn’t bust with an harassment suit.
Though rarely used, it was much abused
By Anne’s threat of intended use.

When Nick 'n Pete, Sue, Harry & Anne
Met to make their plans -
Nick said nothin’ and Pete he blustered
And the others just waited to damn.

Well this went fine for a mighty long time
'Cause they’d once been first with the best
But now they weren’t so and as everyone knows
It’s tough standing out from the rest.

Still they didn’t change and the meetings they made
Went from long to boring to bland,
Till the company died and the team they sighed
With their golden parachutes in hand.

And the moral: it’s neat – just grab a seat
And I’ll tell you what you need to know:
That if you’re gonna to do nothing
Make sure you’ve got $omething
To take out the door when you go!