Sounds like the boss has Peter Principle’d himself into a management job, has very little if any qualifications for it, but has picked up buzzword-speak along the way.
I had one like this. She was a real piece of work. She always had a water bottle with her, her Franklin Planner, and would bolt out of a meeting about 10 minutes before the meeting was over. That kept her from getting assignments tagged to her, and her bosses loved her because she was going from meeting to meeting “Making a difference!”
I’m pretty easy going about most managerial bullshit, but the next time someone tells me to “work smarter, not harder,” I swear you’re going to read about me in the paper the next day. It’s the perfect way to sound both patronizing and clueless without actually, you know, *saying *anything.
I think you need to form a Tiger Team to look into leveraging the synergy to fit with the Core Values and think outside the box to determine some COT’s that will change the paradigm.
I was saddled with a boss like this back in November of last year. Luckily his boss caught on to his shit and he was canned in March. But it was a painful five months. How someone can talk so much and say so little is such a mystery to me.
An important element of the game is having the courage to actually yell “Bingo!”. In order to avoid the reprimands that would likely result from doing so, participants may resort to looking at one another and silently mouthing the word “Bingo”. An alternate variation requires the person who has achieved bingo to raise his or her hand and use the word “Bingo” within the context of a comment or question.
That’s freakin’ hysterical…bonus points if you can reference a dog named “B-I-NGO”.
This stuff drives me batshit because I am assigned to translate it from time to time, and in order to translate something you have to discern its meaning, which this does not have.
Why restrict it to middle-management? My boss, our company president, lives for this stuff. Its like she absorbed the business buzzwords by rote when she got her MBA and failed to grasp any of the concepts. She must have impressed somebody on the Board with her amazing linguistic skills to get crowbared into her current position - god knows it had nothing to do with her performance at her last company or any actual background knowledge about this one.
