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“First, do no harm ''to your own career''”. | “First, do no harm ''to your own career''”. | ||
Eymology corner: often widely misspelled ''buttocratic'' — product of a confusion with the medico’s ''Hippocratic Oath'' — named for the Greek doctor, Hippocrates — buttocractic, with a “c”, in fact comes from buttocraxis (''βυτοκρακτική'', sympolised by the Greek lowercase omega ω) the ancient theological disposition of ''being elsewhere when blame is attributed''. | Eymology corner: often widely misspelled ''buttocratic'' — product of a confusion with the medico’s ''Hippocratic Oath'' — named for the Greek doctor, Hippocrates — buttocractic, with a “c”, in fact comes from buttocraxis (''βυτοκρακτική''), sympolised by the Greek lowercase omega (ω), which is of course the ancient theological disposition of ''being elsewhere when blame is attributed''. | ||
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The ancient, sacred, creed by which all persons charged with the grave responsibility of middle management live: primum nil errare:
“First, do no harm to your own career”.
Eymology corner: often widely misspelled buttocratic — product of a confusion with the medico’s Hippocratic Oath — named for the Greek doctor, Hippocrates — buttocractic, with a “c”, in fact comes from buttocraxis (βυτοκρακτική), sympolised by the Greek lowercase omega (ω), which is of course the ancient theological disposition of being elsewhere when blame is attributed.