ManagementSpeak: It’s not about ego.
Translation: It is about ego: mine! And mine won’t suffer, yours will.
Contributing an excellent ManagementSpeak this week was not about ego. If it was, our contributor would not have asked to remain anonymous.
Month: March 2011
Words Enterprise Architects should only speak in whispers
The subject two weeks ago: Which pays the bills, enterprise architecture or enterprise technical architecture (“Enterprise Architecture / Enterprise Technical Architecture Cage Match,” KJR, 3/7/2011).
This week’s subject: Do you talk like that in public?
It happened like this. Just to stir the pot a bit, I used the cage match column in the LinkedIn Enterprise Architecture Group (“A proposition: Enterprise Architecture gets the executive suite attention, but it’s Enterprise Technical Architecture that pays the bills.”)
The do-you-talk-like-that-in-public question is about the conversation that followed. No, there was no offensive language. Nobody swore or called anyone else a Nazi, and in fact a good discussion ensued.