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As An Action Item, More People Need to Post
Jim's link bar of wonder has been positively dead lately. It's time to liven things up a bit, people.
Today I had 3 meetings in a row, all fraught with corporate buzzwords. It's not an assignment, it's an "action item". It's not a report, it's a "deliverable". I wonder who the first management-type person was to think of these? He (and I say "he" because there's about a 99% chance it was a lame, old white guy) probably published them in some book called "10 Key Steps to Highly Effective Management Styles", since we all know that high-powered management types have nothing to do except write advice books for other high-powered management types. That and play golf.
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Among my favorites will always be the idea that everything that isn't a report is a memo. Not a memorandum, mind you - just a memo. Is it two paragraphs? It's a memo. Is it 60 pages? It's a memo. Was it written by Dostoevski? It's a memo, unless it says "report" at the top.
I always thought that what made something a report was that it had some new information in it, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Posted by: Brian at June 16, 2004 1:09 PM
Do you "do" lunch?
Do you "take" a meeting?
Posted by: rkc at June 16, 2004 10:45 PM
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