One aspect of your Dad’s role as Manager of Production Planning was to help with the annual game plan.  This was a name given for setting the future 5-year strategy of the company.  Your Dad met with executives to prepare presentations for top level executives with ultimate buy-in by the CEO.  These presentations took endless reiterations and revisions.  By the time the presentation was done, your Dad had coined the phrase, it was like “polishing a turd”.  No matter how many changes you made, something in the core essence of the presentation was still lousy.  And sometimes the presentation started out great, and by the time various executives got a hold of it, and continued changing it, it became a piece of crap.