Our advertising department for the bank brought the IT group up to the board room, remarked how there were several new faces they'd not seen before (including one developer who'd been with the bank for 9 years), and then showed us our new add which features penguins. In fact, our new company symbol, it seems, is a penguin- the idea being that we are a partnership bank and penguins are very choosey about their partners (for 12 months anyway, but it doesn't pay to get lost in the details). They then handed us all little toy penguins and penguin cookies. As a side comment I asked our CIO if we were going to be changing over to using Linux and he came back with, "why, does Linux use penguins?" Nothing like that kind of comment to inspire confidence in our head of technology!
_________________________
-Jeff
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.