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1. (''[[Buzzword]]''): A sure sign, in an [[all-hands conference call]] , that some ingénue has made the fatal mistake of dropping through the cloudbase of [[cliché]] into the inconvenient world of substance and detail — a grim place of intractable ugliness that is immune to resolution by crystalline [[Management consultancy|management theory]]. You have as much chance of persuading a [[management consultant]] to embrace the actual workings of daily life as you have persuading someone who quite likes steak to help you slaughter a cow. | 1. (''[[Buzzword]]''): A sure sign, in an [[all-hands conference call]] , that some ingénue has made the fatal mistake of dropping through the cloudbase of [[cliché]] into the inconvenient world of substance and detail — a grim place of intractable ugliness that is immune to resolution by crystalline [[Management consultancy|management theory]]. You have as much chance of persuading a [[management consultant]] to embrace the actual workings of daily life as you have persuading someone who quite likes steak to help you slaughter a cow. | ||