Where is THIS in the management books?

Its a Sunday morning here in Gaithersburg, Maryland and today I was to have an important phone call with a new, large potential client from Doha, Qatar. This project is intended to break new ground in our company and establish ourselves as important players in a new market. The phone call was to include my boss, and most of our client's Directors.

Sunday is the ideal time for me. Yes, 7:30am is early, but not for me - I love the mornings. The rest of the house was asleep, and just in case I asked my family not to disturb this call.

Someone forgot to tell the cat and dog.

At 7:15, I was all dressed in shirt, tie, and jacket (and jeans) and making sure I was online, skype working, etc. Winston, our cat, wandered in. Usually he wants a nice back rub and he'll leave me alone.

Not today. Today he wanted to play. He was bouncing around the office, jumping in and out of the carpet, and thumping around on the floor. I couldn't complete see him and but it made me smile. Its now 7:25

All of the ruckus coming from the cat woke up the dog. The dog needs to start his day with a backrub too, and can get pretty insistent about this. But instead, he decided to play with the cat. This eventually came around the desk where my Skype call was underway. Now 7:35

It turns out the source of all of this energy came from the fact that the cat brought me a gift - a live bird from outside. While my client is making points about sectoral studies and SWOT analysis, my cat is chasing after a bird and my dog is chasing the cat. Then the dog got the sent of the bird, and chased it under my desk. It was at this point that the dog wanted his ear scratched and the cat decided to kill the feather duster again.

Sufficiently excited, the dog started killing all of my wife's shoes again by shaking them violently in his mouth. That's when the bird disappeared behind my desk. All of this in my office.

This must be some sort of test of my ability to concentrate.