ManagementSpeak: I have an opportunity for you.

Translation: I need a patsy to take the fall on this project when it fails.

Our old friend and frequent ManagementSpeak contributor William Adams understands how to avoid becoming a patsy.

Let’s try something different. This is one of my favorite speeches, so I was astonished to find, when I searched for a column based on it, that I’d never written one (or if I had, I’d carefully disguised it).

Anyway, instead of words this week, a PowerPoint deck for your edification and amusement. Let me know if this works.

 

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