Herding Cats Video Commercial

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Herding cats video commercial. Electronic Data Centers Cat Herders is one of the best and most memorable Super Bowl ads even if it only placed 10th in USA Todays annual Ad Meter popularity contest. And despite that fact that EDS was absorbed by HP. Especially a commercial for an IT company.

Alluding to the management-speak idiom Its like herding cats that refers to the impossibility of controlling the uncontrollable it posits an analogy between herding cats and the solution of seemingly impossible problems by EDS. Cat Herders is the best commercial ever. 1302000 eds cat herders january 30 2000 electronic data centers cat.

August 8 2018. Years ago Al Breland showed me a clip of the EDS commercial that used Warren Bennis theme his book of 1997 that managing is a lot like herding cats in a really funny commercial. Electronic Data Systems EDS a global business and technology services company based in Texas began a suite of imaginative Super Bowl TV advertisements in 2000 with Cat HerdersCowboys talk about their life herding cats describing the challenges of taking short hairs as opposed to longhorns through the open country to their destination at the ranch.

In 2001 the large system integrator company eds made a very funny commercial which showed a group of cowboys herding cats. Westernmovies WESTERNS westerntvshows. So when a new customer used that phrase in our discussion about building improvement and collaboration and shared focus on moving things together I laughed and referenced the video on YouTube.

One commercial made over 16 years ago has gone viral after being rediscovered by the internet. Thanks to some creative minds at EDS Electronic Data. Warren Bennis on Leadership Amazon.

Eds cowboys herding cats video. Funny commercial of Cat Herders. With Tony Becker Mark Brooks Brian Burrows Tim Carroll.