Friday, May 17, 2013

Vamp Has Some Advice for Beth

Vampy has been studying management with various sources (the image has him studying with the cast of the TV show "Angel"). He has however, also studied with Coke Bear and w Lucy and Grad Bear (the latter had little credibility in the underworld however).

Thus Vampy knows a few things about how management likes to hear staff speak. In Beth's case she needs to find a way to disagree without seeming to disagree. Vampy suggests the following:

- Yes. In the big picture that is good but to support the major point, you will have to do.....

- Yes that will be the pivot point and it would be usefully reinforced with....

- Yes and that will allow adaptive techniques and practices such as...

of course Vampy also likes to point out that

- you can exceed you benchmarks by honing your core competencies and,
- it is important to establish cross cutting coordination to break down organizational stovepipes 

in the Angel episode he learned about fail-safe mechanisms and loss cutting maneuvers as well as client support, all in the context of a multidisciplinary, turn-key, legal operation