Management Word Power: Queasy or Easy?
Do you speak management?
Perhaps you have been at a meeting where someone says, “growth share matrix is in decline because we are at the low end of the innovation adoption curve and we need to enhance instrinsic stakeholder commitment.” This is the kind of statement that makes you look up from the solitaire game on your blackberry to say, “huh?”
Guy Kawasaki pointed out the management methods, models and theories site on his post: MBA in a page. The management site shows all the “fine print” of a plethora of management methods, models, and theories. Before you learn what the growth share matrix is I encourge you to read the entertaining and eclectic dialogue of comments Kawasaki received by referring to this site as MBA In A Page!
After studying the management methods, models, and theories you will be able to speak management abstraction with the best of them. Here are the 5 categories of management areas listed:
- Strategy - Value Creation
- Valuation - Decision Making
- Organization - Change - Culture
- Communication - Marketing
- Leadership - Management
Can you weave a concept or phrase from each management area into one sentence?
For example:
After studying the performance prism our impact value needs to be synchronized with our value reporting framework so let’s do a PEST analysis to transform our enterprise architecture.
Go ahead, let’s see you communicate and obfuscate at the same time. Try posting a comment by integrating a concept from each category to create management buzz.
Leaders who laugh, last.
I see the abstract jargon thrown together as quite funny and I also believe the site is quite exceptional if you seriously need a brief understanding of some of the jargon that is tossed around in management meetings.
Management word power made easy, management work power made queasy — you make the call!
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1 opinion for Management Word Power: Queasy or Easy?
Alex
Aug 25, 2007 at 5:30 am
Very interesting, David. Thanks for sharing.