We decipher a couple of more oft-used phrases and what they could possibly mean.

A little bit of fine-tuning is needed: A cunning ploy employed by managers when asked by their superiors about the progress made on a project. In reality, the situation is most likely to resemble the mess that a child makes when he is unable to put together a jigsaw puzzle. The major difference being that the child, being an honest soul, would have called for help to sort out the mess.

Let's get some external validation: A frequently employed technique that helps mask the inability of the senior folk to understand something that is being proposed, and to instead transfer the responsibility to an outside expert to provide the necessary illumination. Equally, it may also represent their inability to say ‘No' to the proposal and their need to get someone from outside the system to play the bad cop.

(To be continued)

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