In Oslo, Norway's Frogen Park stands a bronze statue by the famed sculptor Gustav Viegland that is widely known as "Man fighting children," but its official name is No. 27: Man chasing four geniuses. It depicts a man in a wild struggle with four babies. For the full effect, I suggest a Google search. I visited the park and saw the statue while participating in a press tour of Norway's subsea industry. Once past the initial shock of a naked metal man punting an infant across the park's highly manicured lawn, I was struck with how it seemed a fitting metaphor to the internal struggle affecting the subsea industry. Innovation, Standardization, Cost and Efficiency could easily be the names of the four.
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