A Parable on Management

A co-worker emailed this to me... I thought it was pretty funny (and sad because it is unfortunately too true to life).

A man was in a hot-air balloon. Soon he found himself lost with nothing but
green fields for as far as the eye could see. Eventually, he happened to
float over a man who was walking his dog. He leaned over the basket and
yelled out, "Hello! Where am I?"
The man on the ground replied, "You're about 20 feet above the ground in a hot- air balloon."
The balloonist cursed him and shouted back, "You must be a statistician."
"Why do you say that?" asked the man on the ground.
"Well," shouted the balloonist, "You're absolutely correct but your answer was completely useless."
"Oh I see," replied the walker, "And you must be a manager."
"Actually, you're right," said the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," said the walker, "First you were lost. Then, after working out what information you needed to sort yourself out, you asked someone else to get it for you. Now that you have the information, you're still lost, but it's someone else's fault."