Adhocracy: 1. Management that reacts to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them. 2. Company in which everything is done on the hoof as a matter of course; most companies. (see Pants, fly by the seat of our; SNAFU)
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Acumen, commercial: 1. Smart business intelligence. 2. Judgment utterly warped by the filthy lucre; blind obsession with cash; money at all costs; an eye for a dollar; quality much prized in Finance Directors, who then spend all their time generating impenetrable spreadsheets that no one can fathom.
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Activity, lack of, planned: 1. Planning or doing stuff. 2. Not planning or doing stuff; cleverly creating the appearance of activity when nothing much is really happening; calling a meeting to avoid having to do any proper work.
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Activation: 1. Making something happen. 2. Pretending to make something happen, but not really doing much.
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Action list: 1. A list of things to do. 2. A bird’s nest of jumbled notes shoved into a drawer. (see Snake’s honeymoon)
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