ManagementSpeak: He’s all over the map.
Translation: He knows how to cover the whole landscape, only I don’t want to give him credit for it.
The estimable Frank Hayes provided this example of what managers say and what they really mean.
Year: 2010
The case for decentralized control
Douglas Adams put five books into his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. KJR being a less ambitious undertaking, this will be the last installment in the Keep the Joint Running Centralization/Decentralization Trilogy.
And while Arthur Dent was endangered by the Vogons … the most dangerous bureaucrats in a multidimensional universe … we’re merely trying to avoid creating any more run-of-the-mill corporate bureaucracy than we have to.