Herding Cats Video Commercial

One commercial made over 16 years ago has gone viral after being rediscovered by the internet.

Herding cats video commercial. Directed by John OHagan. 3575 herding cats stock photos vectors and illustrations are available royalty-free. Anyone can herd cattle but holding together 10000 half wild short hairs is completely different altogether one of the cowboys said.

So when a new customer used that phrase in our discussion about building improvement and collaboration and shared focus on moving things together I laughed and referenced the video on YouTube. My favorite scene is the cats swimming across the river. This hilarious commercial is so crazy Im not sure to laugh or cry its the most hilarious thing Ive seem all year.

Funny commercial of Cat Herders. And despite that fact that EDS was absorbed by HP. The whole video is filmed in the style of the best movies about cowboys.

Years ago Al Breland showed me a clip of the EDS commercial that used Warren Bennis theme his book of 1997 that managing is a lot like herding cats in a really funny commercial. This brilliant award-winning spot was crafted together for Electronic Data Systems EDS by Fallon. With Tony Becker Mark Brooks Brian Burrows Tim Carroll.

The ad was for Electronic Data Systems EDS and first broadcast in the US. Alluding to the management-speak idiom Its like herding cats that refers to the impossibility of controlling the uncontrollable it posits an analogy between herding cats and the solution of seemingly impossible problems by EDS. Electronic Data Systems EDS a global business and technology services company based in Texas began a suite of imaginative Super Bowl TV advertisements in 2000 with Cat HerdersCowboys talk about their life herding cats describing the challenges of taking short hairs as opposed to longhorns through the open country to their destination at the ranch.

In this funny commercial a group of cowboys can be seen herding thousands of cats over the montana praire. This great video was created by EDS. Warren Bennis on Leadership Amazon.