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Jun 07, 2015

Too many heads and not enough hands

Managerial studies suggest that where once pushy innovators had only to win the ear of the CEO or CFO, the new collegial style now means everyone has to get buy-in from the entire C-suite before getting anything done.

There's a danger of too many cooks spoiling the C-suite

Words ooze into and out of the business vocabulary, their coming and going equally unheralded. Any fresh concept – or, rather, any fresh way of presenting a recycled concept – is sure of rapid adoption. ‘At the coalface’ was one of my favorites, used by ‘hands-on’ managers whose knowledge of the black stuff was such that they would probably try to stick a fork in a lump of it were it served to them on a porcelain plate. Then there were the ‘synergies’

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