Isn't a 'stovepiper' merely an inverted dung-funneller?
Then there's 'Sixsigma'. Don't even
try to understand that - if you cannot get off to sleep reading the AP&FS Newsletter or one of those non-absorbent Air Power propaganda magazines, try Googling Six Sigma....
Never have I read such utter horse**** which basically says that if you want something to work well, it must have been worked on by a high quality team.
How long before the meaningless management drivellers start adding six sigma crap to their wanqueword lexicons?
Mind you, I doubt whether 't Bungling Baron would have much time for six sigma:
One of the key innovations of Six Sigma is the professionalizing of quality management functions. Prior to Six Sigma, quality management in practice was largely relegated to the production floor and to statisticians in a separate quality department. Six Sigma borrows martial arts ranking terminology to define a hierarchy (and career path) that cuts across all business functions and a promotion path straight into the executive suite
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"Straight to 't executive suite?", he would likely opine, "Ah'll be booggerred first, 'afore that happens oop here at 't werrks!"
'Opine', that was a staff offiicers favoured wanqueword a few years ago - just before
inter alia and 'blue water thinking'...
