Be proactive
Get in there and act,
Don’t wait for the cue
If you do it’s a fact
That someone will do
The things you’d thought of
And you’ll be too late
Irrelevant now –
Redundancy, mate
Begin with the end in mind
Retirement’s the end
Of the journey for me
I’ll begin with my ‘package’
How large will it be?
If I creep and I crawl
Through this corporate life
And the money’s okay
Then it’s worth all the strife
Put first things first
I want a big room
With a pleasing aspect
And a PA with whom
There is mutual respect
But first thing I must know
That my money will be
An amount which will show
The value of me
Think win/win
First I’ll win this
And then I’ll win that
Losing’s not in the plan
I won’t be a doormat
If I win, you will lose
There is no other way
Don’t feel bad about that
I’ll give you a say
Seek first to understand, then to be understood
I just don’t understand
Why your proposition
Will help this business –
Strengthen our position
Write another report,
Make it SMART, make it clear
Set the figures out for me
3 o’clock, meet in here
Synergize
One plus one equals three
So they say in the books
But the stats don’t add up
If you ask me it looks
Like the sum of the parts
Should still equal two
Where’s the other one from?
I’m not working with you!
Sharpen the Saw
Well it needs to be sharp
For cutting dead wood
No axes to grind
Severance must be good
My manager’s toolkit
Is serving me well
I seem to have picked up
Some habits from hell
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