The Skeptical Entrepreneur is pleased to be able to accept nominations of deserving businessperindividuals (not a typo*) for enrollment in the Order of the Golden Telescope. Nominees who are accepted into this prestigious entrepreneurial-managerial recognition society, which has honored excellence in missing the point since November 2012, will have demonstrated their deserving status by displaying shortness of vision and lack of strategic focus.
Nominees who receive induction into the Order of the Golden Telescope will have demonstrated that they are so fixated on short-term results that they are able - and willing! - to imperil the long-term viability of their respective firms as going concerns. They will have shown that they can achieve real, tangible, concrete results in line with projections, and analysts's expectations, while ignoring how today's success imperils tomorrow's ability to keep the lights on, and the business functioning.
In short, inductees into the Order of the Golden Telescope will have demonstrated that they are able, not merely to seize defeat from the jaws of victory, but to stuff defeat down the throat of a victorious accomplishment of their entrepreneurial mission.
Nominations (self-nominations are allowed, and eagerly anticipated!) should be sent to The Skeptical Entrepreneur for consideration. Please include a postal/surface delivery address for the nominee, so that, if the nominee is selected for induction, suitable marks and insignia of the distinction of the Order of the Golden Telescope may be sent on.
*The Skeptical Entrepreneur takes gender-neutral language seriously. He also takes it to its logically loopy extreme. One cannot say "businessman," for the same reason that no combined word ending in "-man" is acceptable. The alternate, "businessperson," is equally invalid, and for the same reason; it ends in the masculocentric "-son," which implies maleness. Therefore, "businessperindividual." Don't say you weren't warned.
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