With virtually inexhaustible energy and a tempo fast enough to create beads of sweat they run through the marathon event. Rock music and light shows add to the excitement. The participants at these mass happenings cannot get over it. Their initial hesitancy quickly gives way to enthusiasm. Managers of all ages jog through the hall in shirt sleeves.
Secretaries develop a courage they never had when it came to refusing to work overtime.
Unfortunately the experience can be not only disappointing, but even dangerous. The talk is about power flows and motivational cleansing. The success gurus and masters of motivation describe their concepts as the key to success. He who fails has not thought positively enough. And Emile Ratelband from Holland thinks of himself as the greatest communicator in Europe.