ManagementSpeak: He operates at a strategic level, not the day-to-day work you’re involved in.
Translation: He sits in his office, reading the Wall Street Journal and playing Sudoku, and will get the credit for anything you achieve.
This week’s anonymous contributor is lousy at Sudoku, but excellent at spotting nonsensical phraseology.
I’d call my friend Willy Chaplin a “character” if it weren’t subtly demeaning.
That wouldn’t be appropriate for a guy who, in addition to “getting” the Web before most of the rest of us (“The thirteen commandments of the World Wide Web,” Keep the Joint Running, 6/9/2008), has been at one time or another in his life a weapons designer, spy, programmer (if you enjoy backgammon, his on-line version is a must), commune-founding hippy, consensual bigamist, fugitive, jailbird, parent and grandparent.
