Corn Chips And Salsa For Corporate Climbers

By Stan Sutherland

I make no secret of the fact that the title of this book was inspired by the title of another book – Chicken Soup for the Soul.
The corporate world can be a soulless place and in sharing this collection of quotations with my sometimes caustic, sometimes corny comments I'm hoping you'll enjoy the occasional chuckle.
As a reader of this book you're entitled to know where I am coming from. Therefore you should know that after a 28-year absence from the corporate culture. I was once again working in the corporate scene.
During these 28 years, man had gone to the Moon, the Berlin Wall was torn down and Britain experienced its first female Prime Minister. And yet nothing had really changed in the corporate culture except that the corporate climbers were using new clichés.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stan Sutherland
• Release date: Jul 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9780473252519

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Corn Chips and Salsa

for Corporate Climbers

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Stan Sutherland

Copyright 2013 Stan Sutherland

Published by Sutherland & Co

P.O. Box 89-026

Torbay 

Auckland 0630

New Zealand 

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Also by Stan Sutherland

Follow Your Dream

On The Road From Kerikeri

Life's Lessons Frae The Links

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Introduction

I make no secret of the fact that the title of this book was inspired by the title of another book – Chicken Soup for the Soul.

The corporate world can be a soulless place and in sharing this collection of quotations with my sometimes caustic, sometimes corny comments I'm hoping you'll enjoy the occasional chuckle.

As a reader of this book you're entitled to know where I am coming from. Therefore you should know that after a 28-year absence from the corporate culture. I was once again working in the corporate scene.

During these 28 years, man had gone to the Moon, the Berlin Wall was torn down and Britain experienced its first female Prime Minister. And yet nothing had really changed in the corporate culture except that the corporate climbers were using new clichés.

Sam Goldwyn is alleged to have said, Let's have some new clichés, and the climbers knew they had to use clichés such as Empowerment and Putting a stake in the ground to show his or her leadership qualities. Having decided to adhere to their Stick to their knitting strategy.

Brainstorming had become ideation. The way ahead was replaced with the gung ho of Going forward and Human Resources had become Human Capital which sounded to me like human cattle.

The following is my most sincere greeting and is not used as another example of an insincere current cliché.

Enjoy!

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On serendipity

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way

- Franklin P. Adams

Hence the random format of this book which may just help the climbers to unexpectedly find something to spark their creativity

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On just give me the facts

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening

- Creighton Abrams - U.S. commander of forces in Vietnam

Good advice for corporate climbers who have bosses with military backgrounds

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On why another memo?

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer

- Dean Acheson - U.S. statesman

A reminder for bosses who're big on sending memos to save their butts

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On equality

We’re all cremated equal

- Goodman Ace

A sobering thought for supervisors with superiority complexes

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On playing dead

He’s spending a year dead for tax reasons

- Douglas Adams

Maybe that’s why you haven’t heard from your CEO for over a year

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On, but you go first

Change is good. You go first

- Scott Adams

For goodness sake don't buy into this one if uttered by a conniving fellow climber

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On credible consultants

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company

- Scott Adams

Dammit! Now I’ve got show more admiration for their profession

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On, as far as the eye can see

We all live under the