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-A {{tag|buzzword}} that betrays the lineage of most [[management consultants]] and those influenced by their way of speaking.
+{{a|buzz|}}A hapless {{tag|buzzword}} that betrays the lineage of most [[management consultants]] and those influenced by their way of speaking.
-Why would ''anyone'' want to be thought of as “[[best in class]]”?
+Why would ''anyone'' want to be thought of as “[[best in class]]”, other than a prize ''[[shi-tzu]]''?
-For those of us who remember our school days, and were not [[best in class]] — by my asinine reckoning, that's twenty four in twenty-five of us — the fellow who was “best in class” was a dyspraxic lad who routinely had his head stuck down the lavatory, pencils jammed up his nose and his lunch money stolen. He left school a broken figure; pale, wan and with the sparks of bitter resentment kindling a small fire deep in the pits of his sunken eyes.
+So for one thing, to describe, say, your own [[IT strategy|IT platform]] as “best in class” is to associate it with an [[Awards|award]]-winning canine, and that may be a fur-ball away from an uncomfortable truth. It ''is'' a dog, and pinning a plastic bauble on its collar from the local [[dog-and-pony show]] won’t change the overwhelming force of honest opinion held by the poor, tired, huddled masses who must [[work-around|work around]] it every day just to put food upon the family table.
-No-one knows for sure what became of him, but there’s a rumour he went into [[Management consultant|management consulting]].
+For another, it will salt those of us who remember our school days, and were ''not'' [[best in class]]. By any reckoning, that's twenty-four in twenty-five of us. For we of that unfeted majority, “[[best in class]]” meant the dyspraxic lad whose head we routinely stuck down the lavatory, who had pencils jammed up his nose and his [[lunch money]] stolen. That fellow might have left school a dux, but he was a broken figure: pale, wan and with the sparks of bitter resentment kindling a small fire deep in the pits of his sunken eyes.
+No-one knows for sure what became of him, but there’s certain to be a guy with the same name in every [[Management consultant|management consulting]] outfit.
+{{sa}}
+*[[Lunch money]]
+*[[Management consultant]]
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