Re: vapid corporate culture
On Nov 9, 2006, at 9:31 AM, B. wrote:
Yes, even terms like “Just making sure we’re on the same page here” or “just touching base with you” originate in corpo-speak.
Lucy Kellaway does a wonderful parody of this style in her weekly
Martin Lukes column in the Financial Times
of, in email form. The protagonist, Lukes, is chief great leader of a-
b global UK, a conglomerate whose product is unclear. He’s alwoys
“diarising brainbangs” with his staff, offering “thought showers” and
“mind bullets” to colleagues, and coining neologisms like Creovation
and Integethics. His latest scheme is to make a-b global UK carbon
neutral, and he’s trying to diarise a brainbang with Richard Branson
and Nicholas Stern to help that happen.
Doug