Where is Utopia?

A long time since I made a post in this section of Jargon. On a call today, someone used, well almost one of these expressions that sparked a thought.

We all talk and die by prioritisation especially in larger companies. We aim to have as much bandwidth in terms of headcount and resources needed to do everything we need to do, quickly. Most of the time, we don’t have the bandwidth, and quite often we do have the bureaucracy.

That got me thinking. As I see if we only have 3 states.

1. Bandwidth with Bureaucracy = Ideal working environment, well workable
2. No Bandwidth with Bureaucracy = The Real world, which sucks!/li>
3. Bandwidth without Bureaucracy = the unobtainable UTOPIA

Which one do you work in?

Tags: Office Vocab

Word:  ”Front & Centre”

Definition:  To bring this topic to the front of thinking and focus on it.

Context: Normally buzzed in the same space as “Deep Dive” when something needs to be focused on.  I personally hate this one!

Tags: General Comment, Office Vocab

Word: “Deep dive”

Definition: To actually look into something!  Normally an action after a meeting when someone is tasked in investigating why something has happened.

Context: ”To Deep dive” is to do the work.  Normally associated with marketing stats investigation.

Tags: Office Vocab

Tags: Office Vocab

Word: “Heads up”

Definition 1: When a colleague you like, gives you prior warning on a topic that will affect your job.

Definition 2: When a colleague you don’t like/your boss/your bosses peers are going to dump on you in the near future!

Context: All day, every day, all situations

Tags: Office Vocab

Word: “Compromise”

Definition: When clever people get what stupid people want

Context: Multi team working, when there are conflicting ideas, usually inter team or office environment.

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