ManagementSpeak: We’re putting together an offer to see what it should look like.
Translation: We’re waiting to see if another candidate accepts a smaller offer.
This week’s contributor, having taken the offer, has wisely decided to remain anonymous.
Business strategies and tactics aren’t real strategies and tactics. They’re metaphorical strategies and tactics.
The terms “strategy” and “tactics” belong to military planners, who use them to decide on the actions … broad and specific, respectively … their forces pursue to defeat an enemy.
Many businesses pursue what they call strategies and employ what they’re pleased to call tactics when their intentions are quite different.
