House of Lies

I finally taught my staff the most disgusting "trait" in our job... BULLSHITTING WITHOUT REMORSE. I can't deny that I am actually not making the most out of my staff and their accountability for results is probably nothing close to the corporate governance standards required by a public company. Anyway, I hope they learn more from being under my projects.

While hearing him attempting to arrange for meetings on my behalf, he reminded me of how helpless I felt while facing the rejections during my first project. Being totally helpless in the face of the corporate door bitches, his confidence wavered like a candle in the wind, and it was darn obvious. This was when I offered my "advice", straight from the devil's mouth, if you can't convince them, CONFUSE THEM. Now this was not something he could probably do to seasoned executives but probably this would at least help him get past the door bitches.

This was a little trick I learnt in the army, if you want to be "beng" to mix with the "hokkien being", speak their language... learn their jargon. Punctuate every sentence or phrase with a vulgarity, mix hokkien with half broken english and you're halfway there.

Likewise, to get past the door bitches is to speak the exact same jargon that she does not understand and only the target audience will by punctuating sentences and furnishing nouns and verbs with desctriptives like "strategic", "value", "strategic", "decisions", "profitability", "opportunities", "proposition", "interesting", "trends", "market", "industry", "best practices", "capitalistic", "economic benefits", "competitive advantage", "intelligence", "insight", "forecast" etc...

Ethical? Unethical? Well... all I can say is, it comes with the job and its not all lies. We do strategically add value by sharing market trends and insights via intelligence and our expert forecasts as well as compare industry best practices to assist them in making critical decisions which may enhance their value proposition and market positioning to reap economic benefits through maximising oppotunities, reducing costs and/or optimising their operational processes.