A Japanese company and an American company had a boat race, the Japanese won by a mile. The Americans hired analysts to figure out what went wrong. They reported that the Japanese had one person managing and seven rowing, while the Americans had seven managing and only one rowing. The American company immediately restructured its team. Now they had one senior manager, six management consultants and one rower.

　　In the rematch the Japanese won by two miles. So the American company fired the rower.

一家日本公司和一家美國(guó)公司進(jìn)行了一場(chǎng)劃船比賽。日本隊(duì)贏了一英里。美國(guó)人便請(qǐng)來(lái)了分析家探討問(wèn)題出在哪里。他們的報(bào)告說(shuō)日本隊(duì)有一人掌舵七人劃槳，而美國(guó)隊(duì)是七人掌舵一人劃槳。美國(guó)公司立刻對(duì)隊(duì)伍進(jìn)行了重組。這次他們有一個(gè)高級(jí)舵手、六個(gè)舵手顧問(wèn)、一個(gè)劃槳員。

　　在第二次比賽中，日本隊(duì)贏了兩英里。因此，美國(guó)公司解雇了劃槳員。