new management speak as we play catchup with business and industry
Please caw canny when pinning this bolleaux on 'Industry'. The great majority of British Industry gets by without it or pays lip service to it to make itself eligible for Govt contracts. The bits of Industry that seem keenest to kow tow to management speak and fads are the bureaucratized 'industries' that do not exist in real markets such as BWOS. The Civil Service and Armed Forces manage even to take something as simple as IIP, a scheme to encourage a minimum standard of personnel management and development, and bureaucratize it out of existance such that it becomes a brake on successful personnel management and development.
I find the greatest irony is that management science, pioneered by the likes of John Adair, took the best of military leadership principles and applied it to industry.
A whole academic discipline sprang up, 99% of it irrelevant, which now sells back to the Military its own successful formula (at great cost), but diluted with 99% bovine excrement. Add to the alleged academics the US-Style snake-oil management gurus, and you have fertile ground for 2nd rate Civil Service and Military Leaders to find alleged cure-alls for their own inadequacy.
Whether in the Military or Industry, if you use the schema of classic military appreciation, grounded in the Principles of War, you won't go far wrong. The rest is stuff and nonsense.