Thursday, August 23, 2007

Business memos without all of the thinking

To proactively manage profit, our key initiative objective pushes the envelope toward systematized reciprocal capability.

Enabling continuity, enterprise optimization accelerates the movement towards third-generation contingencies.

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1 comment:

  1. "We must be myopically focused on growing revenues."

    This gem came from a former SVP of sales I reported up to.

    Sadly only 3 out of the 30 people in the room knew being myopic is a bad thing. Having a broad vocabulary can be a curse.

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