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  The Unfinished Symphony A company president receives as a gift an entrance ticket for a performance of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony given as part of the music festival in the village where the group's main factory is located. Not having any desire to go to the provinces, and no member of the management wishing to go there, he remembers that the head of the organization department was carrying out a mission in the factory all that week. He asks her to represent him there. The following Monday, the president receives the following report: Mister President, I have carefully observed the work of the orchestra performing the unfinished symphony as you had invited me to. Here are the remarks I could give you. For considerable intervals, the four oboe players stood idly by. One should reduce their number and distribute their work over the entire symphony, so as to eliminate peak periods. The twelve violins were in unison, they all played the same notes at the same time. This dupli...