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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Missionary position #159056 04/25/2006 11:53 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 I thought an occasional post from the world of corporate psychobabble might be droll (or at least salutary!) Here to get the idea started is some prime crap from Sith Efrica: A broadcasting culture for ‘total citizen empowerment’ is the new objective of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, as it shifts from "an inward-orientated, self-assessing entity to become a people-centered broadcaster able to fully meet the challenges it faces in the context of a rapidly-changing environment". Maybe we should run it through babelfish a few rinse cycles to see if it makes more or less sense? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Missionary position #159057 04/25/2006 12:51 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky How can anyone or anything be inward-orienTATed? Are they going to get lost in there, or what? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Missionary position #159058 04/25/2006 3:10 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Thank you for that, Mav. Meanwhile (this is at least 10 years old but still serves its purpose as a stimulant for meeting-doomed cubicle-dwellers): http://www.petdance.com/bingo/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Missionary position #159059 04/25/2006 4:06 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont ooh, gotta leverage me some repurposed middleware. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Missionary position #159060 04/25/2006 10:00 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Quote: "an inward-orientated, self-assessing entity to become a people-centered broadcaster able to fully meet the challenges it faces in the context of a rapidly-changing environment". Sure, it's full of babble but it makes perfect sense to me. It's describing a change from an entity that is concerned only with its concept of itself to one that is concerned with its audience. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Missionary position #159061 04/25/2006 10:39 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 It may be so Fong. But the words don't say so. Or to put it another way (which may or may not mean the same thing): The integrated knowledge base acquires synergy from the stakeholder-leveraged drill down, but this technology-driven mindshare has no strategic fit with market driven deliverables which will dictate total quality. Thanks for a reminder of that site, ASp - that's just what I need for a meeting on Thursday run by my loquacious MD... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Missionary position #159062 04/25/2006 11:13 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Only afta ya productize your API. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Let's just make it a quickie #159063 04/30/2006 6:34 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago "...meet the challenges it faces in the context of a rapidly-changing environment". Sounds like "fighting fires" to me. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Missionary position #159064 05/04/2006 5:26 PM Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Aramis addict Aramis addict Joined: May 2005 Posts: 456 SE US Yes, no discussion of corporate psychobabble is complete without mentioning 'synergy'. ÅΓª╥┐↕§ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: hissy fits posed #159065 05/05/2006 12:18 AM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh "en de tois hêmerois kai phronimôterois diêrthrôtai mallon phainontai gar mallon boêtheiai ginomenai kai eunoiai kai sunergiai allêlois" "In tame animals, on the other hand, and those which possess a greater share of intelligence, it has assumed a more complex form; for in their case we see more examples of mutual help, goodwill, and co-operation." [Aristotle Economics 1343b17; transl. by G.C. Armstrong] Synergy as good will and cooperation sounds like a close fit to standard corporatespeak meaning. Aristotle goes on to write about " It is, however, in the human species that this complexity is most marked; since the co-operation [sunergia] between woman and man aims not merely at existence, but at a happy existence." Ceci n'est pas un seing. 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