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Mys_ti_cal 50M
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10/2/2014 3:51 am

Last Read:
10/22/2014 3:22 am

Management Speak - Really ?


Now I do work in management and from time to time someone reads a new book - old ideas new title - and with that generates new catch phrases for people to use, examples being

- I dont have the bandwidth to take this on
- Some tasking with be compromised if we integrate with this project
- Lets detail this project workflow to understand the resource matrix integration

What people should say ....

- I do not have time to do this
- Other projects may suffer if we take this project on
- Who do we need on the project for it to be a success

Now I am a little bit of a bastard now and then, more so with management speak than most things as in most cases it is just used as a way for someone to try and look better than they really are. A very funny but not that well known UK show from the 80s brought management speak to a new level (tongue in cheek of course) which I have been using sparingly over the last couple of months, unfortunately several of these phrases do seem to have caught on

- Let me park in your mental multistory
- Let's operate a zipped-lip scenario on this one
- I dont think you're playing in the team togetherness department
- We have a togetherness shortfall here

At some point I will share they came from a UK comedy show used by a character who had no managements skills at all, until then it will be interesting to see how far into presentations/talks/project descriptions these go.

Mys_ti_cal


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