Examples of organizational masturbation…

Posted on October 27th, 2006 by Chris.
Categories: Business/The Software Industry, Chris, General/Misc., Thinking Outside the WTF.

1. Award shows

“Ah…(waving his arms to try and quiet the crowd) Stop! Shh! Ah, I’d like to thank God, my mom, my dad, my beautiful fiancee who I love more than anything in the world, General Hospital, wonderful cast; Sarah Brown, Kimberly McCullough, Ron Hale, Tony Geary, Maurice Benard; John Homa, I love you, ABC, Wendy Riche, Elizabeth Courty, Bob Guza, Mark Teschner, Jeff Ballard, Jim Warren, thank you, I LOVE YOU!!!”

2. Honor societies

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Golden Key is a mission focused, values based and demographics driven organization.

Mission: To enable members to realize their potential by connecting individual achievement with service and lifelong opportunity.

Values: Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, Respect, Diversity, Excellence, Engagement.

References

[1] http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/lot/8416/emmyspeech98.html

[2] http://goldenkey.org/GKweb/WhatIsGoldenKey/MissionValuesStrategicPlan/

Coming next: greenwashing and excellence

1 comment.

Tim

Comment on October 27th, 2006.

The real WTF here is “demographics driven organization”. Is this supposed to imply that they use quotas to determine who gets invited? And what does it mean to be “values based”? The only thing that comes to mind is C# value types vs. reference types.

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