Monday, December 7, 2009

Gobbledigook

A few years ago, I was at a well-known UK university to give a lecture to a group of Executive MBA students. Since I had arrived early, I went to the cafeteria to get a cup of coffee. A group of Business School lecturers were seated at the next table. A proud young lecturer was bragging to her colleagues about a paper of hers that had just been accepted for publication. Her golden words were, "I have been told that I take a holistic approach to organizational culture, far removed from the temporal mindset that seems to pervade the corporate diaspora." I almost choked on my coffee and immediately wrote down her pearls of wisdom in my notebook.

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