{"id":2932,"date":"2008-11-19T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2008-11-18T20:04:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T00:04:57","slug":"my-very-unique-synergistic-solution-is-unstoppable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/my-very-unique-synergistic-solution-is-unstoppable","title":{"rendered":"My very unique synergistic solution is unstoppable"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was fortunate not to work in a company that employed idiotic jargon to cover up a lack of substance; my lack of substance is right out in the open. But during the dot-com era, Bullshit Bingo<\/a> was one of my favorite concepts.<\/p>\n

In that spirit, I was quite happy to receive an e-mail yesterday promoting a whitepaper entitled, “Mastering Innovation: Roadmap to Sustainable Value Creation Using Strategy Driven Innovation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was fortunate not to work in a company that employed idiotic jargon to cover up a lack of substance; my lack of substance is right out in the open. But during the dot-com era, Bullshit Bingo was one of my favorite concepts. In that spirit, I was quite happy to receive an e-mail yesterday … <\/p>\n

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