Workplace Culture Questions

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Quote from Hugh Prather:  "Most of the conversations I hear 
are carried on as if there really were such a thing as an answer
and as if the people present were actually in possession of it."

Shouldn't we all adopt
some sort of "busy" pretext,
display fake fronts intended
to suggest determined aims
are being seriously pursued?

Wouldn't everyone believe
that we are "busy" people --
intent upon accomplishment
important to ourselves and others?

Isn't there some conflict between concepts
of "empowerment" and of "involvement" --
of "delegation" and of "taking ownership"
(directing, guiding -- dictating, really)?

Consider whether these are not
confusing opposites --  messages
easily regurgitated: mere facile
managerial sloganeering....

(Uncertainty, easily detected,
is usually condemned.)

Doesn't everyone read Dilbert?
And who remembers
"Ready....fire....aim!"

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