Thursday, April 03, 2008
Habitat for Who?
So I had lunch today with a fellow lawyer and she was all excited telling me that she's taking leave from work tomorrow to go to Indonesia on a Habitat for Humanity project to build homes for needy people. Before I could say anything she was telling me all about how you pay for your own expenses and have to make a donation to the project, that Jimmy Carter is the patron and even Brad Pitt has volunteered for such projects before, blah, blah, blah ...
It got me thinking and in the afternoon, in a flash of synergistic brilliance, I called a client and told them all about this Habitat for Humanity stuff. The client was all for it and within the hour we had crafted the following letter and sent it off:
"Dear Habitat for Humanity,
We are a small organisation who are always keen to build homes for people. Unfortunately, we've run into a little problem with our current home building effort apparently because some Government body or other has labelled our newly identified plot of land as a "Protected Rainforest Full of Rare & Endangered Species" - like, whatever that means!
Anyhoo, can you help us get a Government permit under the auspices of your organisation to build these homes? Just get the permit and we'll clear the land and build the homes all by ourselves at no cost to you, okie? :)
Love,
Mr. Keeling Fields
Senior Project Development Manager
KonKreetz Building & Construction Pte Ltd"
It's so good putting organisations with synergy like this together! I feel like what Malcolm Gladwell calls a Connector. I really hope it works out. The 18-hole golf course and 20 beautiful bungalows that KonKreetz intends to build over there are really going to provide wonderful habitats for the members of humanity that can afford the $20 million a home price tag.
I think I'm really on to something here. Nowadays we get so much doom & gloom news about global warming, the population explosion and Hillary refusing to quit the Democratic Presidential Nomination race - humanity (those who can afford it) really needs ever more beautiful habitats to live in. This could be the beginning of something big :)
So I had lunch today with a fellow lawyer and she was all excited telling me that she's taking leave from work tomorrow to go to Indonesia on a Habitat for Humanity project to build homes for needy people. Before I could say anything she was telling me all about how you pay for your own expenses and have to make a donation to the project, that Jimmy Carter is the patron and even Brad Pitt has volunteered for such projects before, blah, blah, blah ...
It got me thinking and in the afternoon, in a flash of synergistic brilliance, I called a client and told them all about this Habitat for Humanity stuff. The client was all for it and within the hour we had crafted the following letter and sent it off:
"Dear Habitat for Humanity,
We are a small organisation who are always keen to build homes for people. Unfortunately, we've run into a little problem with our current home building effort apparently because some Government body or other has labelled our newly identified plot of land as a "Protected Rainforest Full of Rare & Endangered Species" - like, whatever that means!
Anyhoo, can you help us get a Government permit under the auspices of your organisation to build these homes? Just get the permit and we'll clear the land and build the homes all by ourselves at no cost to you, okie? :)
Love,
Mr. Keeling Fields
Senior Project Development Manager
KonKreetz Building & Construction Pte Ltd"
It's so good putting organisations with synergy like this together! I feel like what Malcolm Gladwell calls a Connector. I really hope it works out. The 18-hole golf course and 20 beautiful bungalows that KonKreetz intends to build over there are really going to provide wonderful habitats for the members of humanity that can afford the $20 million a home price tag.
I think I'm really on to something here. Nowadays we get so much doom & gloom news about global warming, the population explosion and Hillary refusing to quit the Democratic Presidential Nomination race - humanity (those who can afford it) really needs ever more beautiful habitats to live in. This could be the beginning of something big :)
# posted by Fore! @ 4:43 PM 
