Low Hanging Rotten Pears.
Low hanging fruit is low hanging because its rotten; why do business people go after low hanging fruit. That's a rotten business strategy...
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What the hell are you talking about? And you think you know about biz dev? I think you are missing the meaning of "Low hanging fruit".
According to Albert Pell, whose family has run Pell's Citrus & Nursery in Osteen, Florida for five generations, consultants wouldn't last a day in his orchard. "An inexperienced picker would pick the low-hanging fruit first," Pell says. "But an experienced picker would know to start at the top." The reason: starting low makes the picker's job harder, not easier. "If you're experienced, you rest the bag - which is around your neck and shoulders - on the ladder. You fill it as you go down, so it's full when you get to the bottom."
Even worse, picking the low-hanging fruit first would probably mean taking underripe fruit and leaving ready-to-eat fruit on the tree. "The lower fruit would need to be picked last to give it more time to develop," says Eric Curry, a plant physiologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Tree Fruit Research Laboratory in Wenatchee, Washington. Curry says that most pickers go through the higher, riper fruit two or three times before they finally get to the low-hanging crop.
Joe Grant, a farm adviser at the University of California Cooperative Extension in Stockton, which offers research results and hands-on advice to California fruit growers, agrees with Curry. "When growers send pickers to the field, they don't advise them to pick the low-hanging fruit first," Grant says. "They tell them to pick what's ready to pick. And the first fruit to ripen is what's high up and well exposed to the sun."
Harder picking and poorer fruit -- not much there to recommend the consultants' approach. But wait! According to Dana Faubion, an extension agent at Washington State University in Yakima, the apple industry is making the whole proposition of "low-hanging fruit" not only wrong but also obsolete.
"In the past," Faubion says, "we had larger trees that required ladders. The new trees are 'pedestrian' trees that don't require ladders. So instead of picking the low-hanging fruit, the industry has lowered the tree." Now that's thinking outside the, uh, orchard.
Nice comeback my friend! Now, when you have something original let me know. Stop regurgitating BS you read on the internet and come up with some original content.
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Low Hanging Rotten Pears.
4 comments:
What the hell are you talking about? And you think you know about biz dev? I think you are missing the meaning of "Low hanging fruit".
wow, never had anyone leave a comment so quickly. that is great! so what's your meaning, wise guy?
ANother Opinion:
According to Albert Pell, whose family has run Pell's Citrus & Nursery in Osteen, Florida for five generations, consultants wouldn't last a day in his orchard. "An inexperienced picker would pick the low-hanging fruit first," Pell says. "But an experienced picker would know to start at the top." The reason: starting low makes the picker's job harder, not easier. "If you're experienced, you rest the bag - which is around your neck and shoulders - on the ladder. You fill it as you go down, so it's full when you get to the bottom."
Even worse, picking the low-hanging fruit first would probably mean taking underripe fruit and leaving ready-to-eat fruit on the tree. "The lower fruit would need to be picked last to give it more time to develop," says Eric Curry, a plant physiologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Tree Fruit Research Laboratory in Wenatchee, Washington. Curry says that most pickers go through the higher, riper fruit two or three times before they finally get to the low-hanging crop.
Joe Grant, a farm adviser at the University of California Cooperative Extension in Stockton, which offers research results and hands-on advice to California fruit growers, agrees with Curry. "When growers send pickers to the field, they don't advise them to pick the low-hanging fruit first," Grant says. "They tell them to pick what's ready to pick. And the first fruit to ripen is what's high up and well exposed to the sun."
Harder picking and poorer fruit -- not much there to recommend the consultants' approach. But wait! According to Dana Faubion, an extension agent at Washington State University in Yakima, the apple industry is making the whole proposition of "low-hanging fruit" not only wrong but also obsolete.
"In the past," Faubion says, "we had larger trees that required ladders. The new trees are 'pedestrian' trees that don't require ladders. So instead of picking the low-hanging fruit, the industry has lowered the tree." Now that's thinking outside the, uh, orchard.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/11/cdu.html
Nice comeback my friend! Now, when you have something original let me know. Stop regurgitating BS you read on the internet and come up with some original content.
You’re hanging yourself here (see Kutism #17: Ideas)
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