Humour at work: When corporate buzzwords meet strategy planning
As you walk past the glass-walled reception in your office and swipe in your office ID card to mark attendance, you realise that preparations are on in the conference room for a critical event. It is the master of all meetings: The annual strategy meeting. Teams have been prepping for months. Versions of presentations and Excel files have been flying around with increasing intensity. Strategies have been expounded. Data has been crunched. And 2/2 matrices of all sizes and shapes have been called to order. And now the moment of truth is here. All eyes are now on the projections on the big screen. As the various strategies and visions are presented, the chances are high that you will hear certain words sprinkled across the presentations, and during the lunch and dinner conversations that follow the meeting? Here are some of these words:
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Paradigm shift: You might have plans to change a small feature in an app or create some efficiency tool that will have an incremental impact. But to be worthy of being included in the hallowed strategy deck, you need to make a paradigm shift.Reinventing the wheel: Human beings displayed a stroke of genius in inventing the wheel. Since then, in the corporate corridors, we keep getting sermons to stop reinventing the wheel. Well, that is sure to keep the wheels of innovations churning.Value addition: After you finish making your presentation, you might be asked the fateful question: Where is the value addition? Well, good luck in defining that.Double click on this: Imagine showing a detailed dashboard that has all the numbers one could ask for and more. Just as you are about to finish your presentation in the allotted time comes the ask
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