The Corporate Bullshit Detector: A

Action Planning - To avoid doing it on the back of an envelope at the last minute, you spend weeks defining your goals, assigning tasks and reviewing schedules. Then real life happens, not to mention other people’s action plans, and you end up doing it on the back of an envelope at the last minute.

Added-value - Producing a product or service, then realising you need to find extra uses to make it sound more attractive. Results range from touting Haagen-Dazs as a sex aid to claiming your company is a professional organisation.

Aims - Does anyone really know the difference between business aims and objectives apart from Sue your trainer, and does it really matter? If she knows so much, why is her company still based in a disguised garage on an industrial estate outside Milton Keynes?

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