Achieve learning outcomes: 1. Get something done based on sensible information. 2. Set woefully low standards and repeatedly fail to live up to them, despite plenty of warning signs. (see Fall short)
Category Archives: Bullshit
Accountable, accountability:
Accountable, accountability: 1. We are truthful and reliable, and our numbers really do add up if you check them. 2. We will never be held accountable, because we have set up impenetrable and arcane structures so you can’t get us; we have absolutely no accountability; we don’t trade in this country at all – it’s all based overseas, but we’re not telling you where. (see Buck stops here, the)
Access to information:
Access to information: 1. Ability to see what a department or company is up to. 2. You can’t have access; “Restricted Access”, otherwise known as none at all; a cover up; a sham; don’t ever let this get out or else we’re all doomed. (see Need to know basis)
Accelerator, take one’s foot off the:
Accelerator, take one’s foot off the: 1. Lose energy and enthusiasm for a project or initiative. 2. Decide you can’t be arsed because the whole thing’s pointless; one of many automotive analogies that makes wishy-washy male executives feel particularly virile; suggestion of speed and power, but in reality slowing down; much-loved rallying cry for oppressed managers, as in “Guys, we mustn’t take our foot off the accelerator on this one.”
Absolutely:
Absolutely: 1. Totally or completely. 2. Maybe, actually probably not; I’ve just added an authoritative-sounding adverb to reassure you, but I’m none the wiser frankly; not in the slightest; it’s never going to happen. (see At the end of the day; Basically; Frankly; Literally)