Another story about Steinmetz at GE. He would walk to work and often on the way he’d be thinking about some problem that GE had. And he’d get so involved in the thinking about it that he’d often walk right past GE and end up out in the countryside. So GE had all the cab companies in Schenectady on retainers with instructions that if they saw Steinmetz walking somewhere, they were to follow him at a respectful distance so as to not disturb his thinking until Steinmetz ‘woke up’ and looked around like he was lost. Then the cab driver was to come up to Steinmetz and pick him up and take him back to GE!
Another story about Steinmetz at GE. He would walk to work and often on the way he’d be thinking about some problem that GE had. And he’d get so involved in the thinking about it that he’d often walk right past GE and end up out in the countryside. So GE had all the cab companies in Schenectady on retainers with instructions that if they saw Steinmetz walking somewhere, they were to follow him at a respectful distance so as to not disturb his thinking until Steinmetz ‘woke up’ and looked around like he was lost. Then the cab driver was to come up to Steinmetz and pick him up and take him back to GE!