I was playing with a new whiteboard marker in a meeting the other day, when the guy next to me suddenly frowned at it, clearly disgusted. (I’ll call him Ted, because that’s his name.)
I’d never thought about this, but traditionally the barrel of a whiteboard pen is white, and the barrel of a regular pen is anything else (usually the color of the ink).
I “knew” this, though I’d never specifically noticed.
The new whiteboard marker was a real skookum little unit, with a magnet and an eraser tip, and a non-rolling body in a fashionable black.
But as a leader who frequently uses a whiteboard and a flip chart at the same time, Ted was not pleased!