Oh, I like this[1]. A lot.
>”Let’s think outside the box” ranks up there with “step up” and “bring something to the table” as the three most nausea-inducing business/Apprentice cliches. Let’s not think outside the box. In many of the business problems I have tackled, the challenge isn’t “inside the box thinking,” it’s a lack of thoroughly exploring all the boxes. Until you know what’s really in all of them, you can’t possibly think outside them. [my emphasis]
Amen to that.
Quite apart from the awful NewSpeak guff[2], what Tom Webster says is spot on – people, lawyers especially, spend too much time scurrying around trying to “add value” or whatever when all people really want them to do is “be a proper lawyer and do the job well”.
[1] see the end of the article, after the second picture.
[2] My other leading hate-phrase is “We go the extra mile”. Can’t remember which City-ish law firm uses that but it makes me shudder with embarrassment for the poor sods who have to live under its banner.
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