ATRA's New Teambuilding Protocol Sweeps The Business World

Leading American companies are signing up for seminars that teach a new management excellence technique, developed by the previously little-known Advanced Transit Association (ATRA).

Called Seven Gut Instincts of Highly Ineffective People, the new practice involves the use of a barely self-aware computer program called A Very Idiotic Denial Of Reality (AVIDOR), which mimics the brain engrams of Minneapolis artist Ken Avidor.

AVIDOR, which takes up only 20KB on a computer hard drive, is a revolutionary new technology based on the scientific fact that Ken Avidor's instincts about new ideas are always wrong.

To use AVIDOR, a user simply runs it on a microphone-equipped PC in a conference room, at the same time an important meeting is going on. When a meeting participant voices an idea, AVIDOR responds by squawking. The better the idea, the louder AVIDOR squawks. ATRA trainers routinely tell clients to fine-tune their ideas until the squawking becomes loud, screechy and repetitive.

William H. Frandle III, the software architect behind AVIDOR, is celebrating the success of the application. "This is the first time an infinite loop has made for a better program," Frandle said.