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I overheard parts of a motivational speech the other day. It was about the need to sacrifice individual goals to achieve corporate ones, and switch from a results focus to an action focus: the long term matters less than doing what you are doing right now as well as possible.Sometimes a soundbite is better for business than an elaborate theory. My inner capitalist, however, is still concerned with the bottom line.
posted by soap at
9:34 AM
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Business theory leaves me cold. A few years ago someone at work was circulating a game called bullshit bingo, where you are given a grid made up of crap work terminology such as: the bottom line, at the end of the day, thinking outside the square etc. etc. and during a meeting, if the boss uttered enough bullshit phrases to fill in a whole line you would yell "bingo!"
Apparently attention spans can increase by 500% during an otherwise boring as batpoo meeting. But i've never tried it really.......it might be pushing the envelope.
"... pushing the envelope"
Bingo!!!!
you've played this game before havent you??
Lu, though your comment is certainly incentivizing, and could be considered a key enabler for not only keeping in the loop, but actually going forward into new functionalities, one should not modularize or commoditize such low-hanging-fruit opportunities into long-pole items, simply to gain traction into forming centres of excellence or best practice. To put it in layman's terms, the end-to-end proactive critical path is where you'll instantiate the paradigm shift that will ramp-up and roll out your business plan into a value proposition.
(how's that for a non-native english speaker, sissy?)
PS. Who's the 800 pound gorilla now?!
What have you done to my metaphor?! And I wrote that in all sincerity...
(Impressive paragraph, Steph, since you asked. And thanks -- you've given me some even riper ideas for metaphors, with your low-hanging fruits and long-pole items. Sheesh, you.)
Rats, you are too good sissy, totally out of my league. You are definitely the 800 pound gorilla (but i'm keeping the low hanging fruit and long pole).
As for the metaphor, I read it, I got it, I just didnt know what to say...
Hey Steph, you really have got this management theory jargon totally under control. I think you are ready for a senior management position!
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